The number of international students at Queen's University, Belfast (QUB) is set to almost treble, according to an internal presentation seen by the BBC.

QUB wants to increase the number of students from just over 1,500 to about 4,200 across its faculties by 2020.
International students pay much more in fees but their intake does not reduce the number of places available to students from Northern Ireland.
QUB staff have also been set targets for the research funding they generate.
Some faculties have been asked to double their research income, while staff have also been set individual income targets.
According to the document, each faculty has been set targets to increase the number of international students.
In 2013-14, for instance, the Faculty of Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences had 510 international students, but by 2020 this is expected to increase to 2,020 students.
The other faculties - Engineering and Physical Sciences, and Medicine, Health and Life Sciences - are expected to at least double their intake to 1,243 students and 905 students respectively.
While students from Northern Ireland - and those from European Union countries - attending QUB currently pay £3,805 a year in tuition fees, international students can pay anything from about £13,000 a year to just over £33,000 a year for those taking specialist medical courses.
Places available for local students are capped, while places for international students are not.
QUB has also set targets for staff at each faculty to raise the amount of research income they generate.
Staff in Engineering and Physical Sciences are expected to more than double the faculty's research income from £19.6m to £38.6m.
In Medicine, Health and Life Sciences, research funding is also expected to rise from £30.1m to £60m.
Individual staff have also been set targets to bring in research grant funding as part of their job descriptions.
The BBC has seen some of these targets.
For instance, a senior lecturer in English is expected to generate £48,000 by 2020, and a senior lecturer in history £69,000, but a senior lecturer in Anthropology is expected to raise almost £200,000 over the same period.
Staff in all faculties have been set similar individual targets, and the University and Colleges Union (UCU) has expressed concern about the implications.
In a statement it said: "Queen's management needs to recognise that staff are stretched to their limits.
"A survey carried out by Queen's UCU indicates that 90% of respondents considered that the targets being set by management were excessive and beyond what was expected in comparable institutions.
"Setting very high income and other targets for staff under already under pressure is not the answer and risks severely damaging the morale of hard pressed and loyal staff and their confidence in management."
In April, QUB announced it was cutting 236 staff posts through a voluntary redundancy scheme, but last month it warned staff it may have to make compulsory redundancies.
An internal review into the future of QUB is also currently ongoing.
This is expected to report before Christmas, and may recommend the closure of some courses and departments.
QUB's funding from Stormont's Department for Employment and Learning was cut by £8m earlier this year.


Danny Boyle's Steve Jobs biopic has failed to impress at the North American box office, taking just $7.3m (£4.8m) in its first general week of release.

The film, for which Michael Fassbender has been tipped for a best actor Oscar, entered the chart at number seven.
Ridley Scott's The Martian reclaimed the top spot taking $15.9m (£10.4m).
Elsewhere, Jem and the Holograms made one of the worst debuts of all time for a major studio release opening in over 2,000 locations with $1.3m (£850,000).
The adaptation of the 1980s cartoon about about the quest of a group of aspiring musicians to become global superstars, entered the chart in 15th place.
The Steve Jobs biopic cost around $30m (£19.5m) to make and has taken $9.98m (£6.5m) to date, after two limited release weeks and one week on full release.
Co-starring Kate Winslet and Seth Rogen, the film is the most high-profile of half-a-dozen documentaries and films about the Apple founder since his death in 2011 and has generally received strong reviews.
Vin Diesel's The Last Witch Hunter also failed to meet expectations, earning $10.8m (£7m), while Bill Murray's Rock the Kasbah pulled in just $1.5m (£1m).
Rock the Kasbah, which features Murray as a rock promoter in Afghanistan, cost $15m (£10m) to make.
Family horror film Goosebumps, based on the popular children's book series and starring Jack Black, fell a place to number two on the chart, earning $15.5m (£10.1m).


With two new party leaders and three new MPs, 2015 was a year that saw plenty of change when it came to Northern Ireland politics.

Not for the first time, Stormont appeared to be close to suspension or financial breakdown.
And not for the first time, the politicians found their way back from the brink.
Although this time, much to the relief of the Stormont press pack, their talks did not run into the Christmas period.
The year began with plenty of dates for the politicians to mark in their diaries.
The Stormont House Agreement, reached on the day before Christmas Eve 2014, set out a series of targets related to the Northern Ireland Executive's budget, the implementation of controversial UK-wide welfare reforms and the creation of an opposition at Stormont.
But the choreography did not roll out according to plan.
In March, Sinn Féin pulled the plug on the Welfare Reform Bill before it reached its final stage.
The party argued that a package designed to mitigate the cuts would not be as comprehensive as it had been led to believe.
Its main partner in power, the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP), accused Sinn Féin of "dishonourable and ham-fisted" tactics.
The move put a question mark over the financial viability of the executive, as the UK government made it clear it would not release loans promised in the Stormont House deal, and would continue to levy fines related to the failure to revamp the benefits system.
With the future of Stormont in question, the local parties turned their minds to their own fates in May's Westminster election.
Many commentators expected a "hung parliament", so the DUP made great play of potentially holding the UK balance of power, something that, with the outright Conservative majority, didn't come to pass.
One of the fiercest contests took place in East Belfast where the DUP's Gavin Robinson wreaked revenge on behalf of his leader and namesake Peter Robinson by winning the seat back from Naomi Long of the Alliance Party.
The DUP were greatly assisted in recapturing East Belfast by an election pact with the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP).
They repaid the favour in the Fermanagh and South Tyrone constituency, where the Ulster Unionist Tom Elliott took the seat from Sinn Féin's Michelle Gildernew by more than 500 votes.
Although the DUP and UUP reached tactical deals in some Westminster seats, in other places they fought each other as hard as ever.
In Upper Bann, Jo-Anne Dobson failed to unseat the DUP's David Simpson, but in South Antrim the UUP's Danny Kinahan defeated the veteran DUP politician William McCrea by more than 900 votes.
The return of two Ulster Unionist MPs to the green benches meant the party's leader Mike Nesbitt emerged from the May election as a clear winner, while the defeat of both Mrs Gildernew and Mrs Long lowered the profile of local women in politics.
Away from the results, though, the election yielded one extraordinary story when the then Health Minister Jim Wells, of the DUP, made controversial remarks about same-sex marriage and the abuse of children in unstable relationships.
A video of his remarks at an election hustings event in Downpatrick in County Down went viral.
Although Mr Wells maintained his comments had been misconstrued, a further incident when he was canvassing a lesbian couple in Rathfriland in County Down led to his resignation as a minister.
The controversy played out against a particularly tragic backdrop as Mr Wells' wife lay seriously ill in hospital.
Back at Stormont, the DUP reshuffled its team, switching Simon Hamilton from the finance portfolio to health, with Arlene Foster moving to the finance department from from enterprise.
With no movement on welfare reform, Stormont's financial situation appeared ever more dire.
In late May, Mrs Foster predicted that a massive £2.8bn cut might be imposed if civil servants had to take over the reins of power and introduce an emergency budget.
But this doomsday scenario was avoided when she pressed ahead with what commentators called a "fantasy budget", in which she pretended that welfare changes that remained open to dispute had in fact been agreed.
It seemed a bizarre development, but it was not the last time during 2015 that the DUP would adopt strange tactics to keep the Stormont show on the road.
In August, the murder of a former IRA member in Belfast, in apparent revenge for the murder of another leading republican in May, added a more sinister element to what had previously been a crisis at Stormont over financial and social policy.
The police's suspicion that current IRA members might have been involved in the murder of Short Strand man Kevin McGuigan Sr turned the clock back to the 1990s when the stability of power-sharing was frequently threatened by questions about whether the IRA had gone away.
In that earlier era, the Ulster Unionists took a constant pounding from the DUP who criticised them for sharing power with republicans.
So perhaps some in the UUP could be forgiven for indulging in a sense of schadenfreude when Mike Nesbitt pulled his only minister, Danny Kennedy, out of the executive in response to the police briefings over Mr McGuigan's murder.
The move initially wrong-footed the DUP, who called for Sinn Féin's exclusion from government.
After a senior Sinn Féin official was arrested for questioning about the killing, DUP ministers appeared to follow the Ulster Unionists' lead by handing in their resignations.
But there was a crucial difference - the DUP ministers kept their portfolios in limbo by resuming their jobs then immediately resigning again, a tactic that they repeated.
The DUP's critics lampooned the manoeuvre as "hokey-pokey" politics.
The move generated negative publicity but bought crucial time for fresh negotiations.
The Sinn Féin official was released without charge and, even though an official security assessment suggested the IRA Army Council might still play a role in overseeing Sinn Féin, the DUP ministers returned to their jobs full time and pressed ahead with another attempt to resolve the executive's outstanding difficulties.
Before that came to fruition, though, another of the Stormont parties experienced internal upheaval.
Alasdair McDonnell successfully defended his Westminster seat in South Belfast during a hard-fought personal campaign.
But that did not stop his critics within the SDLP complaining about his leadership.
The 32-year-old Foyle MLA Colum Eastwood decided to run against Dr McDonnell at the party's conference in November, and the bold gambit paid off as delegates voted by 172 votes to 133 to give a younger generation a chance.
The SDLP was not the only party to hold its conference in November.
As the DUP's gathering loomed closer at the end of November, there was an increasing sense that it might serve as a bookend both for the latest inter party talks and the career of the First Minister Peter Robinson.
On a personal level Mr Robinson had experienced an extremely tough year.
In May, he was rushed to hospital after suffering a heart attack, something he later blamed on his lack of exercise and diet of "cowboy suppers".
He returned to work but there were occasions when he was clearly hampered by complications related to his treatment.
On top of this, the first minister faced questions about his handling of a massive property deal in which the £1.2bn Northern Ireland portfolio owned by the Republic of Ireland's so-called 'bad bank', the National Asset Management Agency, was sold to the US firm Cerberus.
The loyalist blogger Jamie Bryson used the privilege accorded to a meeting of Stormont's finance committee to claim Mr Robinson was one of a number of people hoping to benefit from multi-million pounds fixer fees associated with the deal.
The first minister strenuously denied the accusation, insisting that his involvement in discussions about the deal had been purely motivated by wanting to stimulate the wider Northern Ireland economy.
With the DUP conference in sight, the two main local parties and the British and Irish governments unveiled their Fresh Start deal.
The welfare reforms resisted by Sinn Féin would now be implemented by Westminster legislation.
The move would free up Treasury loans that would put Stormont back on a more stable financial footing.
A mitigation package would assist those hit hardest by benefits cuts and reduced tax credits, although the chancellor later withdrew his threat to cut the credits.
The DUP and Sinn Féin hailed the deal as the best option available.
But their critics insisted the Fresh Start was a false start, not least because it did not cover the vexed issue of setting up new agencies to deal with the legacy of the Troubles.
The rights and wrongs of the Fresh Start are likely to provide much of the battleground for the 2016 Northern Ireland Assembly election.
Mr Robinson will not be in the front line of that struggle.
One day after the deal he confirmed his departure as both DUP leader and first minister.
At an emotional DUP conference, it looked like a "dream team" of Nigel Dodds as leader and Arlene Foster as first minister would be anointed as Mr Robinson's joint successors.
But Mr Dodds, the North Belfast MP, surprised observers by deciding not to contest the leadership, arguing that in the days of devolution the DUP could not be led from Westminster.
The East Antrim MP Sammy Wilson briefly considered running his own campaign.
But when he decided against standing as a leadership candidate, the election of Arlene Foster as both DUP leader and first minister became a coronation.
Mrs Foster is the DUP's first woman leader and, as an Anglican and former Ulster Unionist, she represents a break from the party's Paisleyite Free Presbyterian roots.
The new leader will no doubt focus on the assembly election, in which she will hope the DUP does not lose its top spot to Sinn Féin, nor the first minister's title which goes with it.
Martin McGuinness says if Sinn Féin was to be the biggest party he would be relaxed about renaming the two top jobs as "joint first ministers".
Before he gets to that place, though, Mr McGuinness's attention will no doubt be deflected by the forthcoming Irish parliament election, in which Sinn Féin hopes to advance its all Ireland agenda.
There's also the centenary of the 1916 Easter Rising that will have inevitable resonance for Irish nationalists, and potentially for unionists if the angry reaction to a stunt in which a 1916 flag and an Irish tricolour were briefly raised over Stormont is anything to go by.
Aside from constitutional issues, the parties will continue to grapple with sensitive moral and social questions concerning abortion, same-sex marriage and blood donation.
And then, of course, there is the unexpected.
As 2015 proved, no year at Stormont unfolds according to any plan laid out before our MLAs on 1 January.


A man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after another man's body was found in a street on New Year's Eve.

Zabair Hussain, 41, was discovered with multiple injuries to his head and body in Staniforth Road, Darnall, Sheffield, at about 23:20 GMT. He later died at the scene.
The 28-year-old arrested man has been taken into police custody.
Officers believe a number of men were involved in an assault and have appealed for witnesses to come forward.
Det Ch Insp Steve Handley, from South Yorkshire Police, said: "We are still in the very early stages of the investigation and we're carrying out numerous enquiries to get to the bottom of what happened - from reviewing CCTV footage to speaking to potential witnesses.
"While I understand that incidents like this are worrying for those living locally, we have increased patrols by neighbourhood officers to reassure residents."


A report into a firefighter's death has said the use of breathing apparatus and communications must be reviewed to stop a "similar tragedy" happening again.

Stephen Hunt, 38, of Bury, died tacking a blaze at Paul's Hair World in Oldham Street, Manchester in July 2013.
The Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Service (GMFRS) report, which will be shared with other fire services, said they must learn lessons from his death.
It added policy change must ensure that learning "becomes second nature".
An inquest in May concluded Mr Hunt, who entered the building equipped with breathing apparatus but with virtually no ability to see, was unlawfully killed.
After a review of the inquest's findings, Greater Manchester Police said "no further action" would be taken citing accidental ignition could not be ruled out.
The report, which follows both the inquest and police investigation, was compiled "to provide a summary" of what happened during the fire.
It made several recommendations, including a suggestion that more needed to be done to spot signs of physiological deterioration in officers using breathing apparatus and issues around the loss of communications during an operation must be addressed.
Mr Hunt's mother and stepfather Susan and Wilf Veevers said while they could not bring Stephen back, "we can try and ensure this never happens again".
"That will be a fitting legacy for our beloved son," they said.
David Acton, chairman of Greater Manchester Fire and Rescue Authority, said the report was "hugely important".
He added everyone at GMFRS "remains utterly devastated at his death".


Exeter boss Rob Baxter has backed Luke Cowan-Dickie to impress for England.

The 22-year-old has replaced injured Jamie George in the squad for the Six Nations clash with Wales.
"I think he's exactly the right selection for the senior squad now that he's got through his injuries and is up and fit," Baxter told BBC Sport.
"It's disappointing for Jamie that Luke's opportunity has come off the back of someone else's injury, a lot of breaks in all sports happen like that."
Cowan-Dickie missed the early part of this season after breaking his thumb, and is in line to win his second cap should he replace captain Dylan Hartley at Twickenham on Saturday.
He was part of the England team that won the Junior World Cup in 2013 and was one of the final players to be cut from Stuart Lancaster's squad for last year's World Cup.
"To win an international cap or be picked in the senior squad you have to be a good player, but you have to work extremely hard as well and Luke's done that," added Baxter.
"He's had to be patient through a couple of significant injuries and despite that, he's got his head down and is improving as a professional player all the time.
"He's still improving as a hooker as well. He's still played relatively few top-flight games as a hooker.
"His conversion from loose-head has not been very long and he's doing a remarkably good job and he'll keep getting better."


Former Tottenham Hotspur right-back Peter Baker, who was a part of the club's 1961 double-winning team, has died following illness aged 84.

Baker joined Spurs in June 1949 and made 342 appearances.
He won the league title, two FA Cups and the 1963 European Cup Winners' Cup under Bill Nicholson.
A club statement said: "It is with great sadness that we announce the death of our former double-winning right-back Peter Baker."
Baker left White Hart Lane in the summer of 1965 and emigrated to South Africa, where he played for Durban United.


Forgoing a social life, giving up alcohol, and brutally battering your body - success does not come without sacrifice.

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But how many athletes would actually dice with death in the pursuit of perfection and to achieve the ultimate dream of Olympic gold?
For British judoka Kelly Edwards, who had multiple concussions in the eight months before Rio 2016, the advice from neurological specialists was clear.
"They said if I carried on, I might die - it was that serious," she told BBC Sport.
"Even then I was insisting - 'but it's the Olympics' - it was everything I'd thought about for four years and never considered not being there."
What should have been a reality check was briefly considered 'just another challenge' before Edwards reluctantly accepted a break - meaning she would miss Rio - was not only recommended but required.
"It was devastating to miss the Olympics, but if I'd carried on and tried to get there then in the worst-case scenario, I may not be here now, or be unable to continue with a 'normal' life," said the 26-year-old.
Edwards' struggle to accept the decision was in part down to her passion for judo, but also the confusion around exactly how the problem had arisen.
She took a minor hit to the head at an event in Mongolia in July 2015, and another in Uzbekistan three months later.
Dismissing her "slow and sluggish" behaviour as jet-lag, she went on to compete in Portugal later in October - before her headaches worsened.
"It was strange because I didn't feel like I had taken any big knocks," she said.
"It was only when my team started looking back at video footage that we realised where the concussions may have happened."
She improved after resting, before an awkward landing in a competition at the end of 2015 saw the problems return.
"It felt like my head was full of cotton wool," she said.
The "fogginess" in her mind cleared during a six-week break over Christmas, and in late January last year she was back hunting for an Olympic place.
The 2014 Commonwealth silver medallist came through a competition in Cuba unscathed, but a 'minor' knock at the prestigious Paris Grand Slam in February 2016 prompted the symptoms to return - with a vengeance.
"The hit felt like nothing, but the impact was so debilitating," she said.
Edwards was immediately managed using the Sport Concussion Assessment Tool, also known as Scat 3. It includes six elements, with athletes only allowed to progress to the next phase once symptoms have ceased.
She was initially ordered to rest completely and not use technology.
"It impacted every part of my life," she said. "I couldn't make my own meals, and when I'd lean over to feed my cat I was getting dizzy and falling over.
"I was sleeping for 16-17 hours a day and was still tired. Technology was a complete no-go - I couldn't look at my iPad, computer screen or TV for weeks."
I was angry, at times really, really scared... I couldn't get my head around why it was happening
Despite the precautions, her condition did not improve, and in the second phase of her recovery even going for walks and using her mobile were ruled out.
She said: "I didn't think sending a few texts to friends and family was a problem, but I was showing no improvement and had to try something different."
In those few hours she was awake, Edwards felt in a 'dream-like' state, where nothing was real.
"I didn't feel in control of the situation - I was angry, at times really, really scared, and I couldn't get my head around why it was happening," she said.
"It wasn't like a knee or shoulder problem where you're told: 'It'll be four-six weeks of recovery and this is the plan.' It was this invisible injury."
Despite an increase in media coverage and heightened concerns about the long-term impact of repeated concussions on the brain - driven by research into dead American footballers and boxers - very little is known about the mechanics of the condition.
In the UK, rugby union is leading the way with a new Pitch-Side Concussion Assessment (PSCA) system which aims to detect concussions early and prevent players from returning to action too soon.
However, forms of diagnosis and treatment are still very much in their infancy.
"The brain is so complex and I think that's why there's not a lot of information out there," said Edwards.
"I didn't get a lot of answers about why I suffered repeated concussions and was hearing lots of 'we don't know' which I found bizarre and really frustrating.
"Hopefully what I've been through will in some way help others."
Edwards' condition had improved considerably by the time the Rio Olympics began - in April she had resumed running drills, and by July she had returned to full contact work.
But that made watching from home all the more difficult.
"Four years earlier, I'd been in London and had the whole arena chanting my name as I came out to compete," she said.
"It was really hard not being part of an amazing Games for Team GB."
Seeing team-mate Sally Conway claim bronze helped reignite the desire to win medals again, and piece by piece she rebuilt her career.
"I was struggling doing forward and backward rolls, handstands and cartwheels - all things that used to be so easy," said Edwards, who as a child did gymnastics training five times a week.
"When I started doing judo again, if I got thrown or hit on the head I would stop and check I was OK as I was really nervous."
Her confidence grew, though, and she embarked on a run of career-best form, winning medals in all six events at the end of 2016 including first Grand Slam and Grand Prix honours.
"I'm a fighter, I'm a warrior, and if you can overcome the challenges then you'll be stronger than you were before," she said.
"The experience and how bad it was has given me a new lease of life and my mindset is totally different."
This week, Edwards will look to prove just how far she has come by challenging for a medal at the European Championships in Poland - her first major international since the 2015 World Championships.
Further concussions are possible, and there are no guarantees serious symptoms will not emerge again in the future.
Dr Keith Barrow, British Judo's chief medical officer, said it was unclear whether Edwards had had three or four concussions.
He added: "It was hard to tell her she had to stop pushing for the Olympics as she's an honest athlete who had worked so hard to get to Rio, but we had a duty of care.
"Concussions have been linked to mental illness and dementia so we had to think about her life outside of sport as well."
Despite the risks, Edwards is not ready to give up on her dreams.
"There's so much I still want - like being Olympic, world and European champion - but to simplify, it's about being the best I can possibly be," she said.
"I hope taking that break has put any long-term risk of [brain] damage at bay, but what fuels my life is judo and in sport there is always risk.
"Some people may find that hard to understand," she said with a smile. "Us athletes are a crazy bunch!"


Families of victims of downed Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 are suing Russia and its President Vladimir Putin in the European Court of Human Rights.

The jet was shot down by a Russian-made missile over eastern Ukraine in 2014, killing all 298 on board.
The West and Ukraine say Russian-backed rebels were responsible but Russia accuses Ukrainian forces.
The families' claim is based on the violation of a passenger's right to life, News.com.au reported.
The claim is for 10 million Australian dollars ($7.2m; Â£4.9m) for each victim, and the lawsuit names both the Russian state and its president as respondents.
Jerry Skinner, a US-based aviation lawyer leading the case, told News.com.au it was difficult for the families to live with, knowing it was "a crime".
"The Russians don't have any facts for blaming Ukraine, We have facts, photographs, memorandums, tonnes of stuff."
Mr Skinner said they were waiting to hear from the ECHR whether the case had been accepted.
The Kremlin said it was unaware of the claim, the Interfax news agency reported, but a senator with Mr Putin's party is quoted in state media as saying it was "legally nonsensical and has no chance".
There are 33 next-of-kin named in the application, the Sydney Morning Herald reported - eight from Australia, one from New Zealand with the rest from Malaysia.
Sydney-based law firm LHD Lawyers is filing the case on behalf of their families.
Flight MH17 crashed at the height of the conflict between Ukrainian government troops and pro-Russian separatists.
A Dutch report last year concluded it was downed by a Russian-made Buk missile, but did not say who fired it.
Most of the victims were Dutch and a separate criminal investigation is still under way.


A "snarling" stuffed wolf was stolen from a London flat after the owner and her friend returned with a group of men they met on a night out in Soho.

The 6ft-long (1.8m) Arctic wolf, worth Â£32,000, is thought to have been poached in the early hours of 3 August.
Three men, who are being hunted by police, were invited back to the Chelsea apartment and reportedly left at about 05:00 BST.
All three suspects are white and believed to be in their early 20s.
The wolf was bought six years ago from a taxidermy shop and has yellow glass eyes and white fur with black speckles on its back, shoulders and ears.
Det Sgt Sean Lyons, from Kensington and Chelsea CID, said: "This is a unique item and I am appealing to anyone who may know the three suspects or have information about the stolen arctic wolf to contact police."


Gareth Berg's brilliant all-round performance helped put Hampshire on top on day two against Yorkshire.

The all-rounder scored an unbeaten 99 to help the hosts post 455 before taking 4-32 to reduce Yorkshire to 128-6 at the close of play.
James Vince (147) was dismissed by Ben Coad (4-71), but Berg counter-attacked to extend the score from 302-7.
Berg then helped reduce Yorkshire to 46-5 - with new England Test captain Joe Root (8) among those removed.
Only Tykes skipper Gary Ballance (63 not out) provided resistance with the bat.
It was truly Berg's day, despite the 36-year-old ending Hampshire's innings stranded on 99 - one run short of only his third first-class hundred - and his first since 2011.
After Yorkshire's David Willey (2-86) had used the new ball to get rid of Lewis McManus and Liam Dawson in the space of three overs, Berg began to pick up his scoring with the tail.
He added 44 runs alongside Kyle Abbott (22) before Reece Topley and Brad Wheal frustrated the visiting attack, while Berg launched England leg spinner Adil Rashid for two sixes and eight fours to give his side a commanding first-innings total.
However, it was his efforts with the ball on a wicket that had previously looked flat that stood out, as he found enough movement on a nagging length to pin Alex Lees lbw, bowl Adam Lyth and have Root caught behind.
Abbott and Wheal then pinned Peter Handscomb and the returning Jonny Bairstow lbw, before Berg returned after Ballance had advanced the score to dismiss Tim Bresnan (21) caught behind.
Ballance and Rashid (16 not out) came together to stop the slide and reach the close without further damage but, with all their England stars in action, the 2014 and 2015 champions still endured a torrid day
Hampshire all-rounder Gareth Berg told BBC Radio Solent:
"We started the day wanting 500 and didn't get there but the last three partnerships amassed 153 runs, which is crucial in First Division cricket.
"I'm not bothered about my runs personally but to get those lower order runs puts other teams under pressure. I am still searching for that century but, if it comes, it comes.
"I had never bowled to Joe Root before but it was nice to bowl at him. He looked like he was scratching around and not sure what to do with me .
"So I just stuck to my guns and put it on the same spot every ball and hoped one would find the edge. It was great to see him walk back to the pavilion."
Yorkshire head coach Andrew Gale told BBC Radio Leeds:
"We started well to get the four wickets and then we let them off the hook. But fair play to Berg, He played well.
"Then this afternoon a couple of decisions didn't go our way but generally we were poor. It is definitely not a 128-6 pitch.
"The lads need to knuckle down and settle in and get the shine off the new ball and get some partnerships. Gary Ballance's form has been outstanding at the start of the season, since he took the captaincy,. He has shown he is a true leader on the field.
"Hampshire bowled well but we need to stand up and be better than that. We still back ourselves to get something from the game. We have been in similar positions and got something."


The family that lost five members in a drowning tragedy off the Irish coast has praised the man who saved a four-month-old baby girl.

Those who died were the husband, two sons, mother and sister of Louise McGrotty, from Londonderry.
They were killed when their car entered the water at Buncrana pier on Sunday.
They have been named as Sean McGrotty, 49, his sons Mark, 12, and Evan, 8, his mother-in-law Ruth Daniels, 59, and Ruth's daughter Jodie Lee Daniels, 14.
Mrs McGrotty had just returned from a hen party in England on Sunday night when she was told about their deaths.
Jim McGrotty, Sean McGrotty's brother, has said the family was living a nightmare.
"I was sitting at home when news of the tragedy started to emerge last night, my thoughts were for the families of those involved." he said.
"Little did I realise then that it was my own family members who had died.
"On behalf of the family we want to thank that brave man who swam into the sea and who saved the life of Louise's baby Rionaghac-Ann, who is only four months old.
"We have since found out that Rionaghac-Ann's father Sean handed his baby daughter out of the window of the car into the arms of the brave man who dived in to help just seconds before the car sank with the other family members inside."
He said there had been a "constant stream of callers arriving at the house" since people had heard of his family's loss.
"On behalf of the family we wish to thank those people for their support and for their love at this very difficult time for us all," he said.
"Words cannot express the enormity of the tragedy which has befallen our family. We are all numbed by this tragedy which has visited us.
"If there is anything good which has come out of it is the fact that baby Rionaghac-Ann has been saved."
Sean McGrotty was "the most devoted of fathers and husbands" who "idolised his children", his brother added.
"Mark was a first-year student at St Joseph's Secondary School and Evan, his brother, who had muscular dystrophy was a pupil at St Eithne's Primary School," he said.
"The principals of the schools visited the family home this morning and it was clearly distressing for them.
"Jodie Lee's principal also called with us and she too was upset."
Among those who visited the family home was Father Paddy O'Kane, the parish priest.
Fr O'Kane said the family's grief "cannot be measured".
"There was a numbness and stillness in the family home, and my thoughts and prayers, and the thoughts and prayers of the entire parish and further afield, are with those bereaved," he said.
"Poor Louise has lost so many of her family in this tragedy and she only received the news when she returned from a family function in England yesterday evening.
"It's just so hard to put into words what has happened to this family."


A Florida priest murdered last year has appealed from beyond the grave for his alleged killer to be shown mercy.

Reverend Rene Robert enshrined his opposition to the death penalty in a letter he wrote 22 years ago, in which he apparently foresaw his own killing.
The Catholic priest's note requested that whoever took his life be spared execution "no matter how heinous their crime or how much I may have suffered".
Bishops have petitioned the court to drop capital punishment in the case.
The body of 71-year-old Fr Robert, of St Augustine, Florida, was found riddled with bullets in woods in Georgia in April 2016.
Authorities say he was killed days earlier by a man, Steven Murray, whom he had been trying to help for months.
In 1995, the priest signed a "Declaration of Life" document, which was witnessed and notarised by a lawyer.
"I request that the person found guilty of homicide for my killing not be subject to or put in jeopardy of the death penalty under any circumstances," wrote Fr Robert.
The note had remained in his personnel file at his own insistence, said Catholic bishops, who are protesting against the prosecutor's decision to seek capital punishment for his killer.
Fr Robert devoted his life to helping society's most troubled people, including convicts and the mentally afflicted, say friends.
"He was well aware for the potential violence that might involve his ministry, but he cared for those people nonetheless," said Archbishop Wilton Gregory.
The archbishop was among about a dozen clergymen who rallied on Tuesday outside the court in Augusta, Georgia.
They delivered a petition by more than 7,400 people from Fr Robert's diocese asking that his wishes be honoured.
"We want to be the voice that he no longer has to make that 'Declaration of Life' a part of the understanding of this particular case," said Bishop Gregory Hartmayer outside court.
Bishop Felipe Estevez, of the St Augustine diocese, said the alleged killer clearly deserved punishment.
But, he added, "imposing a sentence of death as a consequence of killing only perpetrates the cycle of violence in our community".
The prosecutor, Augusta Judicial Circuit District Attorney Ashley Wright, has cited four aggravating factors in her decision to seek the death penalty if the accused is convicted.
She said these were that the slaying was outrageously or wantonly vile, horrible or inhuman.
Mr Murray, a repeat offender, had asked the priest for a lift in Jacksonville, Florida, before abducting and murdering him, authorities said.
The suspect was apprehended while driving the priest's blue Toyota Corolla in South Carolina a day after Fr Robert was reported missing.
Mr Murray led police to the priest's body.
During a court appearance shortly after his arrest, he appealed for forgiveness.
"If anybody loves Father Rene, they'll forgive me because he was a man of God, and forgiveness is forgiveness," the suspect said, according to Georgia's WALB News.
"I have mental problems and I lost control of myself. I apologise."


Tributes from the Northern Ireland sporting world and beyond are being paid to boxing legend Muhammad Ali who died aged 74.

The former world heavyweight boxing champion, one of the world's best-known sportsmen, died at a hospital in the US city of Phoenix, Arizona, after being admitted on Thursday.
He was suffering from a respiratory illness, a condition that was complicated by Parkinson's disease.
"Muhammad Ali was probably the best fighter of all time. He inspired nearly every boxer on the planet.
"He was like George Best in football. He was the first superstar boxer, without a doubt. He opened all the doors. He made boxing look glamorous." - Dave Boy McAuley, former boxing flyweight world champion.
"As a boxer, he called it - he was 'the greatest'. But there was more to him than boxing. He was an entertainer. The world has never seen the like of him.
"He loved a joke and he was a very nice guy to meet. He was inspirational, not alone in the boxing world. He brought a new side to boxing, He was the greatest thing that ever happened to professional boxing. He became the best-known face on the planet." - Barney Eastwood, former boxing promoter
"He was such a legend. As a kid I remember shadow boxing around the living room and him on the video. He did inspire me to be a boxer.
"Everybody I know - they have all done the Ali shuffle, either on the dance floor or in the gym. He was the best sportsman that has ever lived and what a life he has led." - Brian Magee, former super-middleweight world champion.
"He was 'The Greatest', one of the most influential men that ever lived. RIP Muhammad Ali." - Carl Frampton, former super-bantamweight champion.
"He was the greatest to ever do it. RIP Muhammad Ali, you showed the world how great you were." - Michael Conlan, bantamweight world champion.
"He was just the greatest sportsman that has ever been. We are very lucky that he happened to be in our sport.
"He was hugely famous and what he did for the sport - he was an amazing humanitarian and look what he did for civil rights in America. He was a remarkable individual." - Barry McGuigan, former world featherweight champion.
"It was a magic night in June 2003. It was truly a night of the stars, probably the favourite for many many people, was when Muhammad Ali was brought into the stadium.
"He had been diagnosed with Parkinsons and he was driven in on a golf cart. But he just stole the hearts, the cameras went to him, there were 80,000 people in the stadium, if there had been a roof it would have lifted.
"He was an icon of sport and for the athletes themselves, he was the pinnacle. When Muhammad Ali came there was joy and, at the same time, tears. It was a great celebration of a great sportsperson," Ronan King, patron of the Special Olympics, remembers Ali at Dublin's Croke Park for the Special Olympics in 2003.
"Sad day for sport all over the world, RIP Muhammad Ali!" - Paddy Barnes, two-times Olympics bronze medallist.
"The world has lost not just one of the greatest boxers of all time, but also a courageous human rights campaigner who devoted his life to leaving the world a better a place than he found it" - Patrick Corrigan, Amnesty International
"The passing of Muhammad Ali will have been heard with the greatest sadness by Irish people of all generations.
"Many will remember the wit, grace and beauty he brought to boxing and some will recall his visits to Ireland.  All over the world people also flocked to hear him offer his view on the achievement of democracy and particularly equal rights when they were so strikingly missing in some of the richest countries of the world.  He brought his message of freedom and respect for people of all races to all the continents of the world.
"As a sportsman and humanitarian, and as someone who struggled for a very long time with one of the most debilitating illnesses,  he offered courage in the face of great difficulties." - Irish President Michael D Higgins
"The last time I met him was in 2000 when he was given the award as the outstanding sports personality of the century.
"At that stage, the onset of Parkinson's was very, very obvious.
"Four years before that, I sat in the stadium at Lansdowne , hoping and praying that the Parkinsons and his shaking and so on would not prevent him from lighting the Olympic torch. But, magnificently, as you would expect from him, he actually got through it." - former BBC commentator Jim Neilly.
The funeral will take place in Ali's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, his family said in a statement.
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A dead fox found on a west of Scotland estate was killed by dogs, animal welfare charities have claimed.

OneKind and the League Against Cruel Sports claimed it was attacked by hounds from the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Hunt.
Vets who examined the carcass said its injuries were consistent with a dog attack, although it had also been shot.
Pro-hunting group the Countryside Alliance said the fox had been legally shot after being flushed out by dogs.
Under the Protection of Wild Mammals (Scotland) Act 2002 dogs can be used to flush out an animal but they are not allowed to kill it.
Campaigners, however, claim foxes are regularly killed by hounds.
A review, led by senior judge Lord Bonomy, into how the law is working is due to be published shortly.
The charities said the fox was retrieved by hunt saboteurs on 5 November at Harelaw, near Bridge of Weirand, and taken to Hesselhead Wildlife Hospital.
They then arranged for an examination to be carried out by SAC Consulting Veterinary Services.
The report concluded: "Death is likely to be due to a combination of respiratory failure, blood loss and shock and would not have been instant. This will have caused significant unnecessary suffering to the fox."
The animal had also been shot - but the report said the wound was not fatal.
"One metallic fragment recovered from the right front leg. This will not have killed the animal but the associated haemorrhage is consistent with the fox being shot while still alive," the report said.
OneKind Director Harry Huyton said: "Despite a law which supposedly prevents foxes from suffering negative welfare impacts from hunting with hounds, this unprecedented post-mortem of a hunted fox makes it clear that suffering continues.
"The level of trauma experienced by the fox prior to its death and the manner in which it died is completely unacceptable and debunks the myth that foxes killed by packs of hounds are dispatched with a 'quick nip to the back of the neck'."
League Scotland Director Robbie Marsland added: "We look forward to the Scottish government strengthening the law to make sure that no other foxes are killed in this dreadful and repugnant way."
The Countryside Alliance said the Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Foxhounds operated under a "strict protocol" in accordance with the law.
A spokesperson said: "In compliance with the law the fox in question had been shot on being flushed from cover by the hounds.
"The Lanarkshire and Renfrewshire Foxhounds have an open and ongoing relationship with Police Scotland, one that includes the notification of their activities in advance of hunting days and a facility for direct contact with Police Scotland throughout.
"It is clear that the Lanarkshire  & Renfrewshire were acting both legally and responsibly in the control of foxes.
"Wild and unsubstantiated claims from animal rights organisations about suffering are both predictable and ridiculous."
The Scottish government said Lord Bonomy's review of the law on foxhunting would be published shortly.
A spokeswoman said: "We're grateful to those who made a submission to the Rt Hon Lord Bonomy's review.
"Scottish ministers will carefully consider his report and, as previously committed, will consult on any consequent proposals for change to the current arrangements."


A lorry driver who hit a low bridge and sliced off the roof of his vehicle failed to notice the extent of the damage and drove on for 10 miles.

The crash happened as the lorry drove under a 19th Century stone bridge known as the Cut in Banbridge, County Down.
The driver spectacularly failed to make the Cut, and peeled off the top of the lorry. However, he continued driving on to Portadown, County Armagh.
Police posted a photo of the damage, saying it was "not the smartest move".
Officers used the image as a warning to drivers of other high-sided vehicles, advising them to know the height and dimensions of their lorries before passing under bridges.
On the PSNI's Facebook page, officers said:  "This vehicle found out the clearance height of The Cut in Banbridge yesterday. It then drove on to Portadown, not realising the damage done."
Police also joked that "only the fire service are qualified to make your motor a convertible by the roadside, but you really don't want that to happen".
They reminded motorists that in the case of a collision with a railway bridge, drivers should alert Northern Ireland Railways (NIR) immediately, using phones installed beside bridges.
"There's no way of telling what structural damage could be caused by a bridge strike, and those trains aren't light."
Bridge strikes have been hitting the headlines across the island of Ireland this year.
In the Republic of Ireland, Irish Rail launched a high-profile and controversial campaign warning lorry drivers to obey height restrictions.
They released a video entitled "Dumb truckers" after a rise in the number of lorries hitting low bridges.
It was a photo montage of "Irish Truckers Greatest Hits", showing the Irish company's best pictures of lorry drivers' worst decisions.
The photos were set to a tongue-in-cheek soundtrack featuring hits like the Red Hot Chilli Peppers' "Under The Bridge" and "Hit Me Baby One More Time" and "Oops... I Did It Again" by Britney Spears.


There's some important law-making afoot in both houses this week, on issues from blocking porn sites to whether special constables can use CS gas - and there could be another attempt by peers to summon the second stage of the Leveson Inquiry into the press, on relations between journalists and the police, back from the limbo to which is has been consigned by an unenthusiastic government.

Elsewhere there's some significant action on the committee corridor, with quite a collection of Cabinet ministers appearing before various committees.
As the current crop of bills before Parliament peters out, the committee corridor may well become the focus of attention for the coming months, particularly with 30 select committee inquiries into various Brexit-related topics now under way.
Here's my rundown of the week ahead:
The Commons week begins (2.30pm) with Communities and Local Government questions - with any post-weekend ministerial statements or urgent questions following at 3.30pm.
The main legislating is on the Digital Economy Bill, where there are some significant issues in play at report stage.
The government has accepted an important amendment from the former minister Claire Perry, who had heavyweight cross party backing for her call to add powers to the bill allowing the government to make internet service providers block porn websites that failed to comply with a requirement for age verification for their viewers.
The argument was that this was needed to give real teeth to the bill, and it has now been accepted by ministers, who're bringing in their own version of these powers, in a government amendment.
Labour, though, have reservations about the new government proposal and may even vote against it. And they argue that the best defence for children is compulsory sex education, starting at Key Stage 1, and will be pushing an amendment to that effect.
Watch out too for a Labour new clause, which seeks to create a procedure to deal with the growing problems of breaches of personal data security. This would create an obligation on data controllers to notify the Information Commissioner and those whose details had been compromised.
Labour also want to add in new laws to combat ticket touts and they will also be opposing the clauses transferring the policy over free BBC licence fees for the over-75s to the BBC, on the argument that the Corporation is not the appropriate body to take decisions on welfare policy. They plan to force that issue to a vote.
The Westminster Hall debate (4.30pm- 7.30pm) is on e-petition 162934 relating to child cancer - which calls on the government to make more funding available in the fight against child cancer.
The debate will be led by the Conservative, Ben Howlett, who said the petition had been brought by a couple whose child sadly passed away after a battle with a very rare cancer. Childhood cancer is the biggest killer by disease of children in the western world and currently the survival rates vary considerably between different types of cancer, age and gender. He wants to urge the government to do more to look at the funding for both research and testing new drugs for childhood cancer as well as new awareness campaigns aimed at parents.
Committee of the day is the Transport Committee hearing (4.05pm) on rail safety, which will ponder the issues around rising passenger numbers and problems, with the Rail Delivery Group, the Rail Safety and Standards Broad (RSSB) as well as the ASLEF, RMT and Unite trade unions.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) peers have another day debating the Pension Schemes Bill at committee stage - key issues include more on Master Trusts and on private pension scheme exit fees.
And the Lib Dem peer, Lord Alderdice, leads a debate on ensuring parity of esteem between mental and physical health.
The Commons opens (11.30am) with Treasury questions - followed by the day's Ten Minute Rule Bill which is on Statutory Nuisance (Aircraft Noise) -  fresh from a Westminster Hall debate on this issue, Dr Tania Mathias, whose constituency lies under the Heathrow flightpath, takes her battle against a third runway to the floor of the Commons chamber.
That is followed by the second reading of the Commonwealth Development Corporation Bill - a two-clause micro-measure which will raise the limit on government financial assistance that can be provided to CDC Group (formerly the Commonwealth Development Corporation) (the "CDC") to Â£6bn.
This could be a micro-second reading debate as well - leaving time for opposed private business - a number of private bills (bills dealing with a private interest) have popped up from time to time, for formal approval, only to be pulled when backbench vigilantes like Christopher Chope threaten to object to them. The aim of these challengers it to get the measures debated - and this may now occur.
In Westminster Hall, my eye was caught by the debate led by Plaid Cymru's Liz Saville Roberts, on CCTV in equine slaughterhouses (2.30pm-4pm).
My committee pick is the Justice Committee hearing (9.45pm) with Prisons Minister Sam Gyimah and Michael Spurr, Chief Executive of the National Offender Management Service. The current state of the prison system can hardly be avoided. Unusually this inquiry begins, rather than ends with a hearing with a minister - and its focus could well branch out in several directions, as the hearings continue.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt, Public Health England and NHS officials give evidence to the Health Committee on suicide prevention and whether there is sufficient support for mental health in the NHS (2.30pm).
And there's an interesting in-house encounter - the Standards Committee hearing (10am) on the MPs' Code of Conduct and Guide to the Rules. The witnesses include the MPs' main shop stewards: Graham Brady,  Chair of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee; John Cryer, Chair of the Parliamentary Labour Party, and Angus Robertson, Deputy Leader of the SNP; plus Bernard Jenkin, Chair of the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee; Dr Sarah Wollaston, Chair of the Health Committee, and backbench standards crusader, John Mann, one of the most active complainants on standards issues (at 10.50am).
In the Lords (2.30pm) the main debate is on the economy, in the light of the Autumn Statement.
The Commons opens (11.30am) with half an hour of Welsh questions, followed at noon by PMQs.
Then, the Labour MP Justin Madders proposes a Ten Minute Rule Bill to make it easier for young people to go to games; his Football Supporters (Access) Bill deals with ticket prices and kick off times and calls for a proportion of transfer fees to be earmarked to develop facilities for local clubs and young people.
The day's main debate will be on an SNP motion - subject to be announced - and there's an intriguing looking adjournment debate from the SNP's Gavin Newlands, on Paisley's cultural contribution to the world.
And Work and Pensions Secretary Damian Green will be questioned (9.30am) by the Work and Pensions Committee about his department's finances, after the cash injection in the Autumn Statement.
My other committee pick is Transport Secretary Chris Grayling's appearance before the Environmental Audit Committee (2.20pm), to talk about the environmental concerns around Heathrow expansion and the plans to mitigate air pollution, carbon emissions and noise from a new runway.
In the Lords (3pm) the main legislation is the first report stage day on the Policing and Crime Bill - this measure will probably provide the Lords' last serious legislative clashes of 2016.
There are some big issues to be fought out.
First, behind the scenes negotiations are under way to find a compromise on the provision for Police and Crime Commissioner to take over the fire and rescue authority for their area. Labour have an amendment down to delete this entire section of the bill (Clause 6), but could well be dissuaded if the government is prepared to offer stricter requirements for local consultation on such proposals - and a new government amendment on this issue has now appeared.
Compromise is less likely on Labour amendments to prevent Special Constables using CS gas and PAVA sprays, and this may be forced to a vote. There will also be an amendment on restriction on the use of police cells for those with mental health conditions
But the biggest clash may be over an attempt to add in a requirement to hold a Leveson 2-style inquiry into relations between the police and the media - as I write, no amendment has appeared but one is expected, probably fronted by a crossbench peer, but with substantial cross party support.
If passed it would probably occasion an awkward bout of parliamentary ping-pong between Lords and Commons. And there will be plenty more controversial amendments on the next day of report stage...
As ever, on report stage days in the Lords, timing is important, and opposition amendments usually stand less chance if they're debated after the dinner break, when a lot of peers go home.
There will also be a short debate on current UK political strategy towards and plans to develop economic, security and cultural relations with Tunisia.
The Commons opens (9.30am) with Exiting the European Union questions, followed by the weekly Business Statement from the Leader of the House, David Lidington, setting out what will be on the Commons agenda in the coming weeks.
The day's main debates are on subjects chosen by the Backbench Business Committee. First is a debate on a motion on transgender equality: Maria Miller, Angela Crawley which will follow up on the first report of the Women and Equalities Select Committee, which looked at this issue.
That's followed by a general debate on the future of the UK fishing industry. An annual fisheries debate used to be a fixture of the parliamentary calendar, but since the creation of the Backbench Business Committee, the subject has had to take its chances along with many others.
In the Lords (11am) the main debates are on options for the UK's future relationship with the EU following the referendum - led by Lord Liddle, Tony Blair's former EU advisor, and on challenges in the current system of social care, proposals for reviewing and longer-term reform - led by Labour's Baroness Pitkeathley, a former chief executive of Carers National Association (now Carers UK).
The final debate is on the EU net-neutrality Connected Continent requirements, UK adult content filtering regimes and keeping children safe online.
It's private members' bills day in the Commons (9.30am) and first up is the second reading of the SNP MP Mhairi Black's Benefit Claimants Sanctions (Required Assessment) Bill, which aims to build new safeguards into the system under which claimants can be "fined" if they fail, for example, to attend a job interview.
She wants the system to take into account any caring or childcare responsibilities, the mental and physical health of the claimant and their housing situation, and to ensure that any claimants who are sanctioned are made aware of any emergency funding they could access. Expect a strong turnout of SNP MPs, but there is little sign of support from the government.
Then comes the Vehicle Noise Limits (Enforcement) Bill - from the Conservative, Kevin Foster. The bill would allow noise limits to be enforced via automatic monitoring equipment.
Further down the agenda lurks Ruth Cadbury's Income Tax (Non-Military Expenditure) Bill, which would require HMRC to record income tax revenue of people who say they have a 'conscientious objection' to public spending on defence purposes and to direct their taxes that would have been spent on the military to a 'non-military security fund'.
As the third bill on the Order Paper, it has little chance of any extensive debate.
In the Lords (10am) it's the annual Friday where the bishops get to debate the subject of their choice.
The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, leads a debate on the "Shared values underpinning our national life and their role in shaping public policy priorities".
Archbishop Welby has had some pretty interesting things to say on this subject - a few extracts from a recent speech give a flavour of the ground he may cover:
"It is imperative that we remind the nation that our values have not emerged within a secular vacuum; but from the resilient and eternal structure of our Judeo-Christian theological, philosophical and ethical heritage. ....The right to life, liberty and the rule of law and robust democratic government does not come cheaply, nor is it held lightly. The roots of our freedom in this country are deeply embedded within our British constitutional and civic life because their foundation lies within the shared scriptural inheritance of our faith traditions.....Democracy is not in and of itself the final answer to things, nor is the rule of law. Martin Luther King did not accept the final authority of the rule of law when the law is unjust. Quite rightly, Bonhoeffer in the 1930s did not accept the final authority of the rule of law when the law was palpably racist, unjust and anti-Semitic. That's one of the reasons he ended up going to the gallows. As for tolerance, it's a word like 'nice', isn't it? Completely meaningless and overused. Respect is something else - I won't go there.....Our understanding of the rights and responsibilities that flow from our God-given inheritance as human beings, enable us - Jewish and Christian communities together - to be powerful and compelling advocates for freedom in British society.
"The cutting edge of freedom must include the right to disagree, disengage and dissent. It means the freedom of others to criticise us or our views, or for those of us who hold beliefs strongly to change our minds or our beliefs. It means that we all need to be accountable to one another before God and we all need to affirm the right of others to not believe as we do. What it doesn't mean is freedom without accountability to undermine each other's faith, whether casually, incidentally or wilfully. What it cannot mean is the freedom to use language destructively and negatively about those who are different to us - or who take opinions and views with which we profoundly disagree. We have had egregious examples of that in recent weeks, aimed at our judiciary. And what it must never mean is the denial of others to practise or not practise their understanding of their religious or secular identity."


Results from Finland's parliamentary elections last month have focused attention on the populist and Eurosceptic Finns Party, which won the second largest number of seats and may join talks with the Centre Party about forming a coalition government.

But what does the Finns Party stand for, and how might its involvement in government change the Nordic country's relations with other EU states?
Anti-immigration rhetoric is one of the signature themes of the Finns Party, formerly known as the True Finns.
The party says immigration to Finland from outside the EU should be permitted only in cases where it brings economic advantage.
It says social and health care should be primarily for Finns, and it dismisses some EU immigrants such as the Roma as "criminals" and others as people seeking to take advantage of Finland's welfare services.
Refugees should flee to, and remain in, countries neighbouring their own and not come to Finland, it says.
The country's aid budget should be abolished entirely and the money handed over to voluntary organisations.
In an earlier manifesto, from 2011, the party suggested how demand for labour might be met without immigration.
Young women should be persuaded not to study and instead give birth to Finnish babies who would eventually fill the demand for workers, it said.
Several Finns Party MPs are active members of nationalist organisations campaigning to change bilingual Finland (where Swedish is an official language) to a unilingual citadel of Finnish.
Much of the rhetoric on this issue is highly charged.
One of the campaigners' aims is to end mandatory teaching of Swedish in Finnish schools.
An initiative to make Swedish voluntary was voted down in parliament during the winter.
However, a new policy, supported by the Finns Party, is being tested in municipalities close to the Russian border, where instead of mandatory Swedish, Finnish pupils will have mandatory lessons in Russian instead.
The move has been applauded by Moscow, but it sends odd signals to the rest of the EU.
The party's origins lie in a split in the Centre Party (then known as the Agrarian League) in 1959, when charismatic former cabinet minister Veikko Vennamo resigned in protest at what he saw as Finland's too-friendly relations with the Soviet Union.
After a period of instability and several name changes, he established the Rural Party in 1966.
Basing its appeal on defending "forgotten" small-scale farmers, the party jumped from one seat to 18 in the 1970 election.
After another split, triggered by a dispute over Mr Vennamo's leadership style, the party bounced back in 1983, winning 17 seats.
Led by the founder's son, Pekka, the party criticised its established rivals as mired in bureaucracy and corruption.
Policy focused on providing care and support for the poor and unemployed, with a dose of nationalism mixed in.
But joining the government proved to be disastrous for the party.
It was unable to keep its promise to abolish unemployment within months and fell into another political downturn.
By 1995, the party was in ruins, and the True Finns Party was established from its ashes.
With only one MP in parliament and the party in severe financial difficulties, Timo Soini took over as chairman in 1997.
For three successive elections, the party failed to win significant support.
But opportunity came in 2008 with EU economies in crisis.
Mr Soini repeatedly accused the government of perpetrating a fraud on the Finnish people, above all for, as he saw it, bailing out spendthrift countries of southern Europe.
Beneath the strong Euroscepticism lies a brand of Finnish nationalism that targets refugees, immigrants and the Swedish population in Finland.
The 2011 election was a triumph for Mr Soini, whose party won 39 of the 200 seats in parliament, becoming the third biggest party but refusing to join a pro-bailout coalition.
In last month's election, the party dropped one seat to 38, but emerged as the second largest party.
Mr Soini, whose masters thesis was on populism, is a skilful speaker, talking in a way that appeals to many ordinary Finns.
The Finns Party is set to form part of a new coalition government, along with the Centre Party of the likely next Prime Minister, Juha Sipila, and the conservative National Coalition Party. Mr Sipila has begun coalition talks and hopes to announce a new government by the end of the month.
With Mr Soini in government, the Finns Party's opposition to any fresh bailout for Greece could complicate Helsinki's relations with Brussels.
Whether Mr Soini's party, with its history of splits, will hold together when the next government announces inevitable spending cuts is another story.


Firefighters have been called to what is described as a "major blaze" at a derelict hotel in Aberdeenshire.

At 23:30 on Monday the fire was discovered at the Torryburn Hotel in Kintore.
About 40 firefighters attended the incident.
The fire was reported to be under control by 04:00 on Tuesday.


Lincoln City missed a chance to extend their lead at the top of the National League after they were held to a goalless draw at Aldershot.

A clash of heads between Aldershot's Will Evans and Lincoln's Matt Rhead early on led to a lengthy stoppage before the game stuttered into life.
Aldershot, looking to extend a 10-game unbeaten run, survived early scares when Terry Hawkridge and Luke Waterfall both went close in quick succession.
Bernard Mensah forced a fine save out of Paul Farman at the other end just before the break, but Lincoln - who are three points clear and have a game in hand over their rivals at the top - came closest to breaking the deadlock when Waterfall headed onto a post on the hour mark.
Match report supplied by the Press Association.
Match ends, Aldershot Town 0, Lincoln City 0.
Second Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Lincoln City 0.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Matt McClure replaces Scott Rendell.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Jonny Giles replaces Shamir Fenelon.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Jack Muldoon replaces Jonathon Margetts.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Josh Ginnelly replaces Terry Hawkridge.
Substitution, Aldershot Town. Anthony Straker replaces Cheye Alexander.
Nick Arnold (Aldershot Town) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
Substitution, Lincoln City. Billy Knott replaces Alan Power.
Second Half begins Aldershot Town 0, Lincoln City 0.
First Half ends, Aldershot Town 0, Lincoln City 0.
Luke Waterfall (Lincoln City) is shown the yellow card for a bad foul.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


A dozen areas of woodland in the Peak District are to be sold off, with the first six already on the market.

Peak District National Park Authority (PDNPA) said it was "reducing liabilities" at a time of budget cuts.
It said the areas were small and would be sold with restrictions on their use - and a similar number would be sold later in the year.
The Woodland Trust said it would monitor the situation closely to make sure safeguards were in place.
All national parks have been facing large cuts in grants - the PDNPA has lost Â£3.5m in funding since 2010 - a cut of a cut of 36.5%.
Jane Chapman, assistant director at the authority, said: "Having established or improved these woods - often by reclaiming former rubbish tips or quarry sites - then protected and maintained them over many years, we have fulfilled our primary objective as a national park.
"We now want to return these natural assets to the community, as we are reducing our liabilities at a time of budget reductions.
"The sales will allow us to focus on the protection, improvement and maintenance of our remaining woodlands.''
Norman Starks, UK Operations Director of Woodland Trust, said: "We are looking carefully at the conditions of sale, to ensure full and proper safeguards are in place so that any changes in land use or access rights for these sites will be restricted."
He said the woodlands would remain subject to the usual planning regulations that applied to national parks.
The PDNPA currently manages 120 woodlands, covering approximately 443 hectares of land.


The White House has confirmed reports that President Donald Trump helped draft a statement on his son's meeting last year with a Russian lawyer.

Mr Trump "weighed in" on his son's response to media last month but did not dictate it, the White House said.
Donald Trump Jr initially said the meeting was about Russian adoption before acknowledging he was offered damaging material on Hillary Clinton.
The president's lawyer had denied Mr Trump made any input to the statement.
The 39-year-old US first son came under scrutiny after the New York Times began reporting last month on his June 2016 meeting at Trump Tower.
White House spokeswoman Sarah Huckabee Sanders told a news briefing on Tuesday: "The president weighed in as any father would based on the limited information that he had."
But she maintained he "didn't dictate" the statement and the issue was "of no consequence".
"The Democrats want to continue to use this as a PR stunt and are doing everything they can to keep this story alive and in the papers every single day," she added.
Ms Huckabee Sanders said there was no inaccuracy in Mr Trump Jr's statements.
President Trump has repeatedly denied any collusion with Russia.
The Senate, House of Representatives and a special counsel are all investigating intelligence findings that Moscow interfered in the US presidential election in an alleged attempt to undermine Mrs Clinton - a claim denied by the Kremlin.
The Washington Post reported late on Monday that President Trump himself personally dictated the statement his son issued about the meeting with lawyer Natalia Veselnitskaya.
The president was flying home last month aboard Air Force One from the G8 summit in Germany when he told his son what to say, according to the newspaper.
Mr Trump Jr's statement said he and Ms Veselnitskaya "primarily discussed a programme about the adoption of Russian children".
The initial plan was for Mr Trump Jr to fully disclose what he knew about the meeting, the Post says.
But that decision was reportedly reversed and his first statement said they had discussed the adoption of Russian children, not campaign issues.
Mr Trump Jr later acknowledged he had agreed to meet after being told Kremlin-linked information about Mrs Clinton would be offered during the talks.
He also released the email exchange that brought about the meeting, insisting nothing came of the encounter.
The Washington Post says some of the president's advisers fear the extent of the Mr Trump's intervention could place him and some of his inner circle in legal jeopardy.
The reports about Mr Trump Jr's statement came in the midst of further turmoil at the White House.
White House communications director Anthony Scaramucci was fired on Monday after fewer than 10 days in the post.
The former Wall Street financier had drawn criticism after calling a reporter to give a profanity-laced tirade against his colleagues.
By Anthony Zurcher, BBC News, Washington
According to the Washington Post, Donald Trump thinks that because he didn't do anything wrong, he can't obstruct the criminal investigation into Russian electoral meddling.
The president's personal lawyers might want to tell him that's not how it works - and the president might want to listen.
Even if misdirecting the media isn't a crime, the Post points out that it's enough to encourage special counsel Robert Mueller to take a closer look. And if the president, who it now appears had a deep involvement in crafting the response to the Donald Trump Jr email bombshell, did more than just help mislead the American public, he could be in legal jeopardy.
At the very least the president is playing with political dynamite by not insulating himself from the investigation. It's a lesson President Richard Nixon learned the hard way during Watergate.
But then Mr Trump is operating as president the way he did as a candidate - with a small, sometimes chaotic inner circle, where lines of authority are blurred, "expert" advice is often dismissed and all paths lead to Trump.
If he - or new chief of staff John Kelly - doesn't change this structure soon, the president may come to regret it.
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US electronics retailer Radioshack has confirmed offensive posts on a Facebook account claiming to belong to a local store in Ohio came from a rogue account.

In March Radioshack announced it had filed for bankruptcy and would initially be closing around 200 of its stores across the United States.
The page for the Reynoldsburg store, which contains swearing, posted: "Always hated all you p---k customers anyway."
Hours later a picture of the Radioshack sign, missing letters to spell "adios", meaning "goodbye" in Spanish, was uploaded.
Early on Tuesday morning another post bluntly told customers the store was no longer open for business.
"We closed. F--- you all." It read.
Despite the fact there were clues this was not the local store's official Facebook page, the post was shared more than 15,000 times.
The account is unverified and the only other post on the page is from 9 April 2016, advertising headphones.
Radioshack has used humour to respond on their official Twitter and Facebook pages saying the account was rogue.
In a statement Radioshack told the BBC:
"Thank you for contacting RadioShack in regards to the unofficial derogatory Facebook page. We are aware of the matter and it is currently being investigated.
"This is not a post of RadioShack Corporation.
"We do apologize for any inconvenience this may have caused. "
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Leading Leave campaigner Michael Gove says he "shuddered" when he saw UKIP's "breaking point" anti-EU poster showing a long queue of migrants.

The justice secretary joined a number of politicians attacking the poster, featuring a photo taken in Slovenia, with George Osborne saying it had "echoes" of 1930s' literature.
But UKIP leader Nigel Farage defended it, saying it was "the truth".
He said it was "about us being part of a European Union that isn't working".
Critics say the migrants shown in the poster were not coming to the UK and have accused UKIP of trying to scare voters ahead of Thursday's EU referendum.
Mr Gove said: "When I saw that poster, I shuddered. I thought it was the wrong thing to do."
But Mr Farage, who is not part of the official Leave campaign, defended it in a series of interviews on Sunday morning, saying the scene depicted was "a direct result" of German Chancellor Angela Merkel's decision to open her country's doors to Syrian refugees, which he described as "one of the biggest political failures of modern times".
"The point of that poster was to say that Europe isn't working," he told Pienaar's Politics on BBC Radio 5 live, adding: "Something that's true can't be a scare."
This issue covers immigration and free movement within Europe.
Mr Farage said anyone who "dares challenge" the "narrow Westminster consensus" on free movement attracts abuse, and said his party was trying to put across a "positive message".
He told Murnaghan on Sky News: "It was a one-day poster. I have got six posters and you will see the next one tomorrow morning in the national press and online.
UKIP's next posters would be "all about this country not the wider point it was making there about the European Union failing us all," he added.
Asked whether he was stoking up hatred, he told ITV's Peston on Sunday: "I think I have been a politician who has been a victim of it, to be honest with you.
"When you challenge the establishment in this country, they come after you, they call you all sorts of things."
Mr Farage said his side of the EU debate had the "momentum" until the death of Labour MP Jo Cox, which prompted both campaigns to be suspended.
"It has had an impact on the whole campaign for everybody," Mr Farage said.
His party's poster has been attacked by politicians on both sides of the EU debate.
Pro-Leave Commons Leader Chris Grayling said: "It's the wrong poster, it was the wrong approach, it's the wrong view."
While on the Remain side, Mr Osborne described it as "disgusting and vile" with "echoes of literature used in the 1930s", while Scotland's First Minister Nicola Sturgeon called for it to be withdrawn.
"My argument is let's deal with the impact, let's invest in housing and public services rather than blame immigrants or take a view that we should somehow close our borders," she said.
Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn said it was an "appalling" poster showing "a lot of desperate people fleeing from war".


A woman killed crossing a road in the Lake District may have been struck by several vehicles, police have said.

The victim was trying to cross the A590 near the Heaves Hotel, Levens, near Kendal just after 19:30 GMT, Cumbria Police confirmed.
A spokesman for the force said the woman, who was in the east-bound lane, was pronounced dead at the scene.
Police are appealing for anyone who was in the area who may have witnessed the accident to come forward.


A ceremony dedicated to the life of cricketer Matthew Hobden has taken place at the County Ground in Hove.

The 22-year-old Sussex fast bowler, who had been tipped to play for England, died in Scotland in January.
Earlier a willow tree was planted in his memory and a minute's silence held.
He was found dead at a private property after celebrating New Year with friends. The cause of his death remains unexplained.
After the ceremony Sussex began playing their match against Essex.
Sussex cricketer Luke Wright said: "We're known as a family club and it was our little moment to give back to the big man.
"It's been tough, but all the guys are wearing his shirt today with his number and name on."
The club's chief executive, Zac Toumazi, said: "This is the first time as a club we've been able to do something here at the ground that Matthew played at and loved so much.
"It's very important as a Sussex cricket family we've done something here."


The Italian fashion house Prada has reported a drop in profit, hit by a fall in leather goods sales and currency fluctuations.

First-half net profit fell 21% to 244.8m euros (£192.5m; $314m), the company said.
It said the strength of the euro had hurt sales as well as a "difficult economic" environment.
Ahead of the announcement, Prada shares fell 1.3% in Hong Kong, to their lowest level in more than two years.
Prada expects profits in the second half of the year to be broadly in line with the first half, however "margins will continue to be under pressure with some marginal improvements deriving from the costs-cutting actions," the company said in a statement.
"We remain confident that the luxury goods market - especially the high-end segment where the Prada Group operates with success - will continue to offer interesting growth prospects in the medium-term," said Prada's chief executive Patrizio Bertelli.
Revenues from sales of leather goods, a category with a high profit margin,  decreased by 1.4% , mainly because of a decrease in tourist footfall in the main shopping destinations in Europe and Asia, Prada said.
Sales in shoes and ready-to-wear clothes rose, as did menswear, which saw sales rise 19% in the first half of the year as men become more fashion conscious.
Rahul Sharma, a retail analyst at Neev Capital said the company had become less exclusive as a brand, but more exclusive in price, and as a result was losing out to competitors.
"There used to be lots of reasons to shop there, with limited editions and so on. Now there is much less 'newness'. Not only that but the company has put prices up. A customer used to be able to go in and buy a leather bag for about £1,000. Now it's more like £1,500 - £2,000," he said.
However Alex Migliorini, luxury goods analyst at Mirabaud Securities said he thought re-positioning itself as a higher end brand was a good thing, because it helped to protect the brand.
There has been concern about the strength of demand in China throughout the luxury goods industry.
"There's no doubt that the Chinese market has slowed...but there has also been a change in purchasing patterns," said Mr Migliorini.
"Chinese consumers usually spend most of their money abroad, but that trend is gradually shifting. So far the spending at home has not made up for the spending abroad," he said.
The clampdown on corruption in China has also had an effect, he continued. "People need to feel like spending big is not a sin."
On a conference call the Italian firm also said it had had a supply chain issue with some of its newer and better selling leather collections.


The BBC's director general Tony Hall has confirmed that Jeremy Clarkson will not have his Top Gear contract renewed, after a physical assault on one of his colleagues.

Here is his full statement.
It is with great regret that I have told Jeremy Clarkson today that the BBC will not be renewing his contract. It is not a decision I have taken lightly. I have done so only after a very careful consideration of the facts and after personally meeting both Jeremy and Oisin Tymon.
I am grateful to Ken MacQuarrie for the thorough way he has conducted an investigation of the incident on 4 March. Given the obvious and very genuine public interest in this I am publishing the findings of his report. I take no pleasure in doing so. I am only making them public so people can better understand the background. I know how popular the programme is and I know that this decision will divide opinion. The main facts are not disputed by those involved.
I want to make three points.
First - The BBC is a broad church. Our strength in many ways lies in that diversity. We need distinctive and different voices but they cannot come at any price. Common to all at the BBC have to be standards of decency and respect. I cannot condone what has happened on this occasion. A member of staff  - who is a completely innocent party - took himself to Accident and Emergency after a physical altercation accompanied by sustained and prolonged verbal abuse of an extreme nature. For me a line has been crossed. There cannot be one rule for one and one rule for another dictated by either rank, or public relations and commercial considerations.
Second - This has obviously been difficult for everyone involved but in particular for Oisin. I want to make clear that no blame attaches to him for this incident. He has behaved with huge integrity throughout. As a senior producer at the BBC he will continue to have an important role within the organisation in the future.
Third - Obviously none of us wanted to find ourselves in this position. This decision should in no way detract from the extraordinary contribution that Jeremy Clarkson has made to the BBC. I have always personally been a great fan of his work and Top Gear. Jeremy is a huge talent. He may be leaving the BBC but I am sure he will continue to entertain, challenge and amuse audiences for many years to come.
The BBC must now look to renew Top Gear for 2016. This will be a big challenge and there is no point in pretending otherwise. I have asked Kim Shillinglaw [Controller of BBC Two] to look at how best we might take this forward over the coming months. I have also asked her to look at how we put out the last programmes in the current series.


Plastic surgeons have said they are worried about the number of young people who want cosmetic procedures.

The news follows a Newsbeat questionnaire, where listeners shared their views on cosmetic surgery.
More than half of respondents who had not yet had a procedure, said they would consider undergoing one.
The NHS advises that cosmetic surgery and procedures are a "major decision" and suggests that anyone considering them should talk to their GP.
If you are thinking about having a procedure done, what should you be researching?
"Research the operation," says consultant plastic surgeon and BAAPS council member, Mr Kevin Hancock.
"It's always helpful for the surgeon you're talking to if you take some pictures of either somebody you think looks great or what you would like to try to achieve," he adds.
He believes it is important to get a "realistic" idea of "what that surgery can achieve", as well as the risks and side effects of the procedure.
"Everybody should expect, as part of the consultation process, to have a discussion about complications and problems," he explains.
"If you see a proper surgeon who is experienced with this kind of thing, immediately you're having a kind of psychological appraisal," says Mr Hancock.
"Most of us who do a lot of this kind of surgery say no to people on a regular basis."
He says to be careful of feeling pressured into going ahead with surgery, or additional procedures, by pushy sales people offering discounts or deals.
"If you're sitting in a commercial clinic setting, probably the first thing that's happened is your credit card has been swiped and even if it's not overt, you're going to be pressured into having something done."
The Royal College of Surgeons
"Ideally they need a recommendation," says Mr Hancock, adding that friends and family who have used a particular surgeon may be the best place to start.
Both he and the NHS advise to first check whether the surgeon you are interested in is registered with the GMC (General Medical Council), where there are lists of people with special training in plastic surgery.
"You should be seeing and talking to the surgeon who will be operating on you.
"You don't want to see anybody else, be they sales person, nurse, assistant or marketing person," Mr Hancock adds,
"There isn't regulation. There aren't rules that control this that people can therefore feel reassured by, because actually it's the Wild West out there and there are cowboys all over the place," says Mr Hancock.
He advises against just relying on glossy advertisements or social media to find a clinic or surgeon.
"All the recognised private clinics are governed by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) and so the patients know that's about as good a regulation as you get," he adds.
The NHS says that if you are unhappy with the results of your cosmetic surgery, or you think it wasn't carried out properly, you should talk to your surgeon through the hospital or clinic that referred you.
You can also get in touch with the CQC, if the clinic is registered with them.
Practitioners of non-surgical procedures such as Botox and dermal fillers do not need to be registered with the CQC so if you have an issue "it's best to take it up with the person who carried out the procedure" says the NHS.
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The Islamist former President of Egypt, Mohammed Morsi, has been sentenced to life in prison at the end of an espionage trial.

He was one of a number of defendants accused of passing documents to Qatar.
Morsi's lawyer told AFP that he had been acquitted of spying in this case, but convicted of leading an illegal organisation.
Six others on trial, including two journalists for the broadcaster al-Jazeera, were sentenced to death.
The two journalists were not in court and were sentenced to death in absentia.
Morsi was deposed in 2013. He has already been given a life sentence and condemned to death in earlier, separate court cases.
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All of the rulings can still be appealed.
They come against a background of scathing criticism of the Egyptian judicial system by international human rights activists.
Tens of thousands of people are believed to have been jailed by Egyptian authorities, most of them supporters of Morsi's Muslim Brotherhood, since the former president was overthrown following mass protests against his rule.
Al-Jazeera says Ibrahim Helal, its former head of news in Arabic, and Alaa Sablan, who was employed by the news organisation until last year, were among those sentenced to death.
The Doha-based channel also said a journalist with the pro-Muslim Brotherhood Rassd News Network was given a death sentence.
Egyptian authorities have accused al-Jazeera of serving as the mouthpiece for the Muslim Brotherhood and for Morsi. Qatar backed the Brotherhood, and its ruling family partly funds the news channel.
Three journalists from al-Jazeera, including the Australian Peter Greste, a former BBC correspondent, arrested in 2013, were jailed for broadcasting false news following two trials in Cairo. Their case caused an international outcry. All three men have since been released.


Rail passengers have faced severe delays after a points failure disrupted services in and out of Bristol's Temple Meads station.

At one stage only two of its 14 platforms were open, and points were being manually operated.
Network Rail confirmed all lines had now reopened and said station staff were monitoring the situation.
A spokesman for the rail operator apologised and warned disruption would last until the end of the day.
Cross Country Trains has assured passengers affected by the delays that they can apply for ticket refunds via its website.
Earlier, all lines were blocked and Cross Country Trains said none of its trains were currently moving in the area, as engineers worked to restore services.
Passenger Hattie Revans who was travelling from Bristol to Weston-super-Mare to get to work, described the situation as "quite stressful", and said "the longer this takes the more money I lose".
On Twitter, fellow passenger Shabana Hussain said Network Rail was "making commuter lives hell" and it was "not good enough".
Steve Payton described the situation as "total chaos" and Dale Miller called it "an absolute joke".


A six-year-old girl who was killed when she was crushed by an electric gate whispered to a friend "get my brother" before she died, a court heard.

Semelia Campbell became trapped in the "lethal" automated gate outside her home in Manchester in 2010.
Safety features intended to prevent a crush had not been implemented by the company, Manchester Crown Court heard.
Cheshire Gate Automation Ltd (CHA) has admitted corporate manslaughter and is due to be sentenced.
The gate fitter's company director Kriston Kearns, 43, has been cleared of manslaughter.
On 28 June, Semelia was playing outside her home in Carnival Place with a six-year-old friend when the gate opened to allow a car to enter the secure car park.
She ran backwards and forwards through the gap before becoming trapped in the automated gate in The Maine Place in Moss Side.
The court heard the gate failed to detect Semelia's movements and "continued to drive into her with enormous force".
Prosecutor Andrew McGee said Semelia's friend saw that she was not breathing.
"He said Semelia told him in 'a tiny voice' to 'go and get my brother'."
Semelia's mother Judith Gilroy and her brother and sister, who had moved into the property two weeks earlier, battled to free her.
Semelia was only freed when a police officer tried using a jack and two bricks to wedge the gap before smashing the controlling mechanism.
The six-year-old was pronounced dead in hospital.
Mr McGee said Mr Kearns and his co-worker had not read installation manuals.
"The gate was left in a completely unsafe, not to say lethal state, with no proper obstacle detection in place.
"It is not just careless or incompetent automation of the gate, it's cavalier."
The council-owned premises was a flagship development that was to provide "a safe and secure environment" for residents.
The sentencing hearing was adjourned and is scheduled to resume on Wednesday.


The family of a teenager who died while on holiday in Zante five years ago are hopeful of a breakthrough in the case.

Matthew Cryer, 17, from Killamarsh, north Derbyshire, suffered head injuries outside a bar in the beach resort of Laganas in 2008.
At the time, Greek police said he died from excessive drinking, but a UK inquest heard evidence he had been attacked and sustained 20 injuries.
Lawyers for Matthew's family have now said charges could be imminent.
His family has campaigned for justice since his death, and in 2011 police on the Greek island reopened the case.
This week, his mother Jo Froud said she had been told that prosecutors are close to charging suspects with exposure to harm.
Mrs Froud said if a prosecution went ahead, it would then be for a judge to decide whether the case should go to a trial.
"There's still a small possibility that it might not go ahead so we can't get our hopes up just yet," she said.
"We have waited for so long now. Over the years we have had to develop patience and the art of compromise.
"Matthew will always be missing from our lives and there's nothing we can do about that, but if we can get this court case and what we think is a reasonable kind of justice for him, then we can move forward."
An inquest in Chesterfield in 2009 found Matthew was unlawfully killed. A coroner said he had been dragged from inside the nightclub, attacked and allowed to fall down steep steps outside.
The coroner at the time criticised Greek authorities saying no attempts were made to find out how Matthew sustained his fatal injuries.