Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes has played down the level of disruption to the club's Europa League preparations after a second lengthy flight delay.

The squad had been due to depart for Slovenia at 13:30 BST but as a result of an issue with the plane, that has been put back at least three hours.
Aberdeen and NK Maribor are level at 1-1 after the first leg.
"When there's an itinerary there you want to stick to it but it's no drama from our point of view," said McInnes.
A similar travel scenario surrounded the Dons' trip to Latvia in the previous round, when they played Ventspils.
McInnes stressed it would make "no difference" to how they prepare for the third qualifying round match.
"We weren't planning on training at the stadium tonight (Wednesday) anyway," he added.
"We wanted to be a bit more specific and train here this morning so there's no real change from that other than the players will arrive a bit later, we get to the hotel and just go straight in for dinner.
"We hoped to be in watching the Celtic game. Hopefully, we can still get to see that and then the plans on Thursday will be as normal so there's not really too much change to our preparation."
The Dons boss also admitted the match paled in significance to the deaths of two young Maribor players in a car accident on Tuesday.
A minute's silence will be held before the match for Damjan Marjanovic and Zoran Baljak.
"You never know how they react to that. In a football sense, it's secondary," said McInnes.
"Firstly it's awful news. Our sympathies go to everyone involved - the club and the families especially - from our club.
"It's not the news you want to hear and regardless of how that affects them, it's just awful.
"You try to put it into perspective with how it would be if it was a 19-year-old and 20-year-old from our club and you start to identify who those players could be and how close they are to the first-team players as well."


Wales football fans face travel disruption as transport unions have called strikes ahead of their World Cup qualifier against Ireland in Dublin.

A one-day bus strike is taking place and some trains have also been cancelled - leaving one group of 20 fans stuck in Rosslare.
Pre-booked tickets will be refunded but there are no alternative bus or rail services running.
Wales take on Ireland at 19:45 GMT.
Irish Rail passengers have been warned of major disruption across services due to the Bus Ã‰ireann strike.
Drivers stopped working at midnight across the country and the disruption has now spread to the rail network due to picketing related to the dispute.
Services likely to affect fans include routes to and from Dublin to Limerick, Cork, Galway, Sligo, Waterford.
Bus Ã‰ireann said it was "extremely disappointed" by the action, which it claims would cause major inconvenience to customers and exacerbate the "perilous financial situation at the company".


The mother of a 22-year-old woman who died after taking drugs on a night out in Cheshire has paid tribute to her "beautiful and bubbly girl".

Stephanie Shevlin had been to the Box nightclub in Crewe on Saturday when she became ill. She died later in hospital.
Cheshire Police believe Ms Shevlin, from Liverpool, had taken MDMA and are investigating the cause of her death.
Her mother Michelle said her daughter was due to start college in September and had her whole life in front of her.
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"To have her life cruelly taken away in this manner is soul destroying and all I want is for my little baby to come home."
She appealed for anyone with information about who supplied the drugs to come forward and contact police.
In May, the European Monitoring Centre for Drugs and Drug Addiction warned that Ecstasy and MDMA was getting stronger, with dangerously "pure" pills and crystals in circulation.


Belgian terror suspect Hamza Attou, accused of involvement in last November's jihadist attacks in Paris, has been handed over to French police.

Mr Attou, 21, was charged for driving fellow suspect Salah Abdeslam back to Brussels from Paris on the night of the attacks, when 130 people were killed.
Hamza Attou had opposed extradition to France but Belgium handed him over on Wednesday, prosecutors said.
Belgium transferred Salah Abdeslam to French police in April.
Prosecutors say another suspect, Mohamed Amri, was with Hamza Attou in the car that picked up Salah Abdeslam on 13 November. Mr Amri is still in Belgian custody. The three were caught by CCTV cameras at a French petrol station on 14 November.
So-called Islamic State said it carried out the Paris bombings and shootings on 13 November, which were at least partly planned in Brussels. Hundreds were also wounded in the attacks.
Belgium is preparing to hand over Mohamed Bakkali to France - another suspect held for his alleged role in the November Paris attacks. But Belgium has set the condition that he must serve any prison sentence in Belgium.
France also wants to question Mohamed Amri and a third suspect in Belgian custody - Ali Oulkadi.
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American Gothic, the iconic painting by Grant Wood, is coming to London next year - the first time it will have been seen outside of North America.

The Royal Academy said the work will be part of an exhibition on Depression era art.
It shows an Iowa farmer holding a pitchfork with his daughter by his side and a house in the background.
America After the Fall: Painting in the 1930s opens on 25 February 2017 and will run until 4 June.
American Gothic was part of the American Regionalism movement which saw artists attempt to reflect the regions affected by the Great Depression, triggered by the Wall Street Crash of 1929.
Tim Marlow, director of artistic programmes at the Royal Academy, said it had "never left American soil" before and is "metaphorically embedded in the American soil in the Midwest".
"From the beginning, it has been seen as an icon because it's emblematic of American regionalism, a kind of quiet, understated power," he said.
Marlow said American Gothic was "slightly sidelined as a mere populist painting" but was now seen as "something that is both popular but also deeply profound".
The painting has a newfound "resonance" as the US gears up for the forthcoming presidential election, he said.
"I think it will be wonderful to see it decontextualised out of America and recontextualised in London," Marlow added.
The painting is one of 45 from the period that will be displayed.
Works by Thomas Hart Benton, Jackson Pollock, Edward Hopper and Georgia O'Keefe will also be included.
Other highlights among the Royal Academy's 2017 programme include an exhibition of the work of Jasper Johns.
The RA said the exhibition from 23 September to 10 December, which will include his paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings, would "give focus to different chapters of Johns' career".
Johns, who is 86 years old, is widely seen as one of the greatest living painters.
Another exhibition, Matisse in the Studio, will run between 5 August and 12 November and show how Henri Matisse's personal collection of treasured objects influenced his work.
Other exhibitions to be announced for next year include Revolution: Russian Art 1917 - 1932 and Dali/Duchamp, which will focus on the friendship and works of Marcel Duchamp and Salvador Dali.
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The man who led a review of Scottish devolution has given his backing to a so-called "Charter of the Union".

Sir Kenneth Calman, who was before the House of Lords Constitution Committee, also said he believed such a document could define what it was to be British.
He told members that not enough had been done to "articulate" the case for the Union.
In 2009, the Calman Commission recommended that Scotland take charge of half the income tax it raised.
His report, which included input from the three main Unionist parties but not the SNP, came five years before the Scottish independence referendum in September 2014.
I don't think [the case for the Union] has been well enough articulated - it is still a case of 'them at Westminster'
Sir Kenneth appeared before the committee - which has no SNP members - alongside Sir Paul Silk, former chairman of the Commission on Devolution in Wales.
Crossbench peer, Lord Judge, asked if there was merit in creating a Charter of the Union.
Sir Kenneth replied: "The answer is yes. I think it would make the discussion easier about who does what, and how we benefit, how you benefit and how we all benefit. I think that would be very helpful.
"Without that communication, the average citizen is left wondering who does what for me now - and it is Westminster's fault anyway - so, it is easier to put it the wrong way."
Sir Kenneth was also asked, by Labour peer Lord Morgan, whether such a charter should include suggestions on what it was to be British.
The former chief medical officer of Scotland said: "I think that is a good point, that seems to be part of the [means to an] end, what does it mean to be a citizen of this country and what are our values.
"I can see that a group could look at a range of these issues, articulating, communicating them and seeing if people want to be part of it."
The former commission chief added: "I don't think [the case for the Union] has been well enough articulated - it is still a case of 'them at Westminster', as opposed to 'Westminster is here to help you'.
"We need to show that it [the Union] is worthwhile, not only that Scotland has something worthwhile to contribute to the UK parliament and the UK in general, but that is what the UK is for."


An ancient African genome has been sequenced for the first time.

Researchers extracted DNA from a 4,500-year-old skull that was discovered in the highlands of Ethiopia.
A comparison with genetic material from today's Africans reveals how our ancient ancestors mixed and moved around the continents.
The findings, published in the journal Science, suggests that about 3,000 years ago there was a huge wave of migration from Eurasia into Africa.
This has left a genetic legacy, and the scientists believe up to 25% of the DNA of modern Africans can be traced back to this event.
"Every single population for which we have data in Africa has a sizeable component of Eurasian ancestry," said Dr Andrea Manica, from the University of Cambridge, who carried out the research.
Petrous bone
Ancient genomes have been sequenced from around the world, but Africa has proved difficult because hot and humid conditions can destroy fragile DNA.
However, the 4,500-year-old remains of this hunter gatherer, known as Mota man, were found in a cave and were well preserved.
Importantly, a bone  that is situated just below the ear, called the petrous, was intact.
Dr Manica, speaking to Science in Action on the BBC World Service, said: "The petrous bone is really hard and does a really good job of preventing bacteria getting in and degrading this DNA.
"What we were able to get is some very high quality undamaged DNA from which we could reconstruct the whole genome of the individual.
"We have the complete blueprint, every single gene, every single bit of information that made this individual that lived 4,500 years ago in Ethiopia."
Mass moves
The genome revealed that Mota man had purely African DNA, his ancestors had never moved from Africa.
But the comparison of this with modern African genomes highlighted that about 1,500 years after his death, the make-up of the continent had changed.
Genetic studies have shown that after the great migration out of Africa, which happened about 60,000 years ago, some people later returned to the continent.
But this study shows that about 3,000 years ago there was a much larger migration than had been thought.
The Neolithic farmers from western Eurasia who, about 8,000 years ago, brought agriculture to Europe then began to return to Africa.
"We know now that they probably corresponded to a quarter of the people that already lived in East Africa (at that time). It was a major backflow, a very sizeable movement of people," said Dr Manica.
It is unclear what caused this move - potentially changes happening in the Egyptian empire - but it has left a genetic legacy.
"Quite remarkably, we see in Ethiopia about 20% - so a fifth - of the genome of people living there right now is actually of Eurasian origin, it actually comes from  these farmers," explained Dr Manica.
"But it goes further than that, because if you go to the corners of Africa, all the way to West Africa or South Africa, even populations that we really thought were purely African have 5-6% of their genome that dates back to these western Eurasian farmers."
Neanderthal genes
The Eurasians' return also introduced some extra genetic material to Africa.
The genes their ancestors had picked up from interbreeding with Neanderthals were then passed to Africans, and can still be seen today.
Commenting on the research, Dr Carles Lalueza-Fox, from the Institute of Evolutionary Biology in Barcelona, Spain, said:  "What is nice is that it places in time the origin of the Eurasian backflow into Africa already detected some years ago from modern genome data, and it turns out to be the farming.
"Once again, like in the case of Europe where we see dramatic genomic turnover, the spread of agriculture has had a huge impact even in a continent where large groups continued to be hunter gatherers.
"And it is also interesting to discover now that even sub-Saharan Africans have a bit (0.3-0.7%) of Neanderthal ancestry."
Prof David Reich, from Harvard Medical School in the US, added:  "The claim that all sub-Saharan Africans today have a substantial amount of ancestry due to back-to-Africa migrations is quite interesting, and while I won't be 100% convinced until I look at the data myself, I think the analyses seem careful and thoughtful.
"While previous studies have documented substantial West Eurasian ancestry in some sub-Saharan African populations, including Nigerians and KhoeSan from southern Africa, if the findings of this paper are right, they are important because they extend these claims to populations that were previously thought to have little or no West Eurasian ancestry, for example Mbuti hunter gatherers from central/east Africa."


"Dear Gran, can I come round for a slice of Battenberg and a cup of teaâ€¦ and persuade you to vote to remain, with me, on 23 June?"

That is the message on just one of a series of postcards - addressed to Grans and Grandpas, Mums and Dads - on the Vote Remain stall at the student union cafe at the University of East Anglia in Norwich.
It highlights one of the biggest questions of this referendum campaign: will the young, who tend to be in favour of staying in the EU, be outvoted by the old, who tend to be in favour of getting out?
Critical to that will be whether the young bother to vote at all.
Research carried out for the Hansard Society suggests just over a third of 18- to 24-year-olds intend to or are certain to vote, compared with well over two thirds of the over-75s.
Chatting to students at UEA, you discover why.
You hear all the same old reasons you hear at election time:
It is, in other words, a mixture of apathy, ignorance, and scepticism about the entire political process.
"I didn't even know it was on the 23 June, so now I know," one student tells me. "So with this vote, do we determine the decision, the public? Oh great, OK."
Some even say they will vote "next time". There may, though, be no second chance.
If Britain votes to leave the European Union, it is unlikely we will be given the opportunity to change our minds within a few years.
If we vote to remain, it is more likely that there will be a second vote - under pressure from those unhappy with the result first time.
But, just as in Scotland, they will be told that this was that once-in-a-generation possibility and they blew it.
No wonder, then, that so much energy is being put in, particularly by the Remain campaign, to persuade young people to register to vote by the deadline of 7 June.
Facebook, Twitter and even Tinder, to which Prime Minister David Cameron himself has turned, are all being used to try to capture their attention before it is too late.
Amy, an officer at the student union, tells me: "The main problem for us as a student union to get students involved is the lack of motivation, and the tangible argument and quick sound bite, for them to get involved."
Those under the age of 35 are roughly twice as likely to vote to stay in as those over the age of 55, but why?
Is it that they see the practical benefits of membership of the EU - whether cheaper mobile phone calls or easier travel or opportunities to study abroad?
Is it that the young are more liberal in their attitudes - particularly to immigration?
Are they more sceptical about the leading Leave politicians - such as Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson?
Or is it simply that membership of "Europe" is seen as like the weather - ie it just is what it is?
Perhaps it is a mixture of all four.
It is striking that those people who approached me on campus to tell me that they were in favour of leaving were pretty ideological - from left and from right.
Some saw the EU as a "neo-liberal institution" enforcing the will of big business.
Others saw Brussels as quite the reverse - a bureaucratic corporatist socialist body stopping Britain having the freedom to govern ourselves and trade as we like.
Those political arguments are, though, very much in the minority.
For most people, this referendum - like so much politics - is pretty irrelevant compared with the other concerns of day-to-day student life.
So what may determine the future of these young people is not whether they have that slice of Battenberg with Gran but whether they can convince themselves that this is a vote that is a once-in-a-generation decision that will affect the rest of their lives.


A 90-year-old man has died after it was believed he was blown into the path of a bus in north London.

Scotland Yard said it was thought he was caught by a gust of wind and blown off the pavement against the side of the bus near Finchley Central station.
Emergency services were called at about 12:35 GMT but the man died at the scene a short time later.
The man's next-of-kin have been told. A post-mortem examination will be held in due course.


A judge has ordered a former USA Gymnastics doctor to be tried on sex assault charges, as an accuser said he abused her during hide-and-seek.

A 25-year-old woman testified that Larry Nassar molested her from the age of six until 12 during family visits to his Michigan home.
Mr Nassar, 53, is accused by more than 60 former patients and athletes of sexual abuse during pelvic procedures.
He is facing separate federal charges for possession of child pornography.
After testimony at a court in Mason, Michigan, Judge Donald Allen ordered Mr Nassar to stand trial on three counts of first-degree criminal sexual conduct with a person under 13 years old.
The accused, a sports doctor who treated US Olympic gymnasts, faces up to life in prison if convicted.
He was stripped of his medical licence last month, amid at least six criminal and civil lawsuits.
The unnamed woman, who was neither a patient nor an athlete, testified against him for more than two hours on Friday.
She detailed how Mr Nassar allegedly molested her during family visits to his home in Holt, Michigan, from 1998 to 2005.
"Almost every time I was there for a couple of years, something occurred," she told the court.
Some of the abuse happened under a blanket as he sat next to her on the sofa, while her unwitting older brother sat nearby, she said.
When she tried to tell her parents about the molestation, they did not believe her.
"They made me feel like I had done something terrible," she said, adding that they told her to apologise to the doctor. She refused.
When the woman left home for university, she again told her parents about her experience with Mr Nassar.
Her father, who committed suicide in March 2016, "crumpled" when she repeated her claims.
Mr Nassar was fired in September after working for decades as a doctor for gymnasts at Michigan State University, as well as USA Gymnastics - the sport's governing body.
Allegations of sexual assault were first revealed by the Indianapolis Star newspaper in September 2016 when he was accused by two former gymnasts.
Since then, more than 60 women have accused him, and at least 40 have filed lawsuits.
Several of those suits name USA Gymnastics as a co-defendent, claiming they had not done enough to prevent the abuse.
MSU gymnasts coach Kathie Klages quit abruptly this week after being named in several legal actions.
She had worked as a coach for nearly 30 years, before she was suspended by the university, leading to her surprise departure.


A homeowner has complained of months of sleepless nights because of works to replace a railway bridge  in West Lothian.

David McInnes, 61, whose house on Harburn Lane, West Calder, backs onto the railway line, said he had suffered noise disturbance since August.
He said the works, which are not due to finish until April, shake his house and cause high noise levels at night.
Network Rail said Mr McInnes was the only local resident who had complained.
The bridge replacement is part of ongoing works to electrify the Shotts line between Edinburgh and Glasgow Central.
Mr McInnes, who is a retired IT services manager for Forth Ports, told BBC Scotland that the noise had been getting gradually worse since last summer.
He said: "I thought it was the end of the world on Friday night, the noise and vibrations were so bad. We couldn't get any sleep all night and it carried on all the next day too.
"What good is it to put a note through the door saying there is going to be high levels of noise? Are we to pay for a hotel now until April?
"It is outrageous and I'm very angry about this.
"Surely it would be better to carry out the work during the day and inconvenience rail services than to cause all the locals in the area months and months of sleepless nights?"
Network Rail said it had notified 1,200 properties that they would be affected by the work and Mr McInnes' complaint was the only one it had received.
A spokesman said: "The work we have been carrying out at West Calder is vital to replace a life-expired road bridge over the railway.
"We try to minimise the disruption our works cause to nearby residents, but short-term night-time working is unavoidable when removing a structure such as a bridge over the railway.
"We have been in regular communication with locals residents about this project, including Mr McInnes, to keep them informed about our project and to try to address any concerns they may have.
"We are also required under the terms of our license to run the railway delivery works in a way that minimises disruption to train services. "


Hilary Mantel has won the 2012 Costa novel prize for her Booker Prize-winning book Bring Up The Bodies.

The judges described the historical story as "quite simply the best novel of the year".
Kathleen Jamie won the poetry category for her collection The Overhaul beating newcomer Sean Borodale.
Each winner will receive a Â£5,000 prize. Maggot Moon by the former illustrator Sally Gardiner took the Children's award.
The book sees her hero Standish take a stand against a ruthless regime which has taken his friend away.
The judges called it "truly outstanding with a unique voice, it's a magnificent book."
Sally Gardiner has described the award as "the most phenomenal" experience since becoming a full time writer.
"Maggot Moon is a book I've always wanted to write and Standish has been waiting to be written for years. It is thrilling that the story now stands defiant in the world" she said.
"It is a great honour to have won this award, and for me, it goes towards proving the power of dreams.'
Husband and wife team Mary and Bryan Talbot from Sunderland jointly won best biography for the graphic novel Dotter of Her Father's Eyes.
It is part personal history, part biography and tells the story of two interweaving father-daughter relationships.
Graphic novels were included in the shortlists for the Costa Book Awards for the first time in 2012.
It is Hilary Mantel's second award for Bring Up The Bodies, a historical novel about Thomas Cromwell, which also won the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
She became the first living UK author to receive the prize twice, having won it for its prequel Wolf Hall.
"I'm delighted, it is lovely and this is the first time I've have featured on a Costa shortlist I think, I've certainly never won one of the Costa prizes before" she told the BBC.
Mantel said the awards were not making her complacent: "I'm always greedy for readers, like every author.
"I had a letter from one the other day which confused Thomas Cromwell and Oliver Cromwell and when that is going on, I think there is work to be done."
Mantel beat off competition from James Meek's The Heart Broke In and Stephen May's Life! Death! Prizes!
Debut author Francesca Segal won the first novel category for The Innocents.
It is the story of childhood sweethearts, preparing to get married when a cousin turns up and puts temptation in one of their ways.
"It felt hard to believe that this affectionate, witty novel was the author's first," the judges said.
All five books, which were selected from more than 550 entries, will now compete for the 2012 Costa Book of the Year, which will be announced in London on 29 January.
A panel of judges including actress Jenny Agutter, comedian Mark Watson and chaired by the BBC Radio 4 broadcaster, Dame Jenni Murray will decide which is the overall winner - who will receive an additional Â£30,000 prize money.
Last year's Costa Book Prize went to Andrew Miller for his novel, Pure.


The tour to New Zealand is a little over a week old, and already the daunting task facing the Lions has been laid bare.

Following the defeat by the Blues, next up are the unbeaten Crusaders, the form team in Super Rugby.
But while Lions boss Warren Gatland feels the franchise sides may be as strong as New Zealand, All Blacks counterpart Steve Hansen says there is "no comparison".
Hansen's message to the Lions is simple: things will not get any easier.
Gatland has picked perhaps his strongest side yet as the Lions seek a morale-boosting win to get the tour up and running.
Although the Kiwi insists he has yet to come close to finalising a Test team, it would be no surprise if the combinations at front row, lock, half-back and centre all start against the All Blacks on 24 June.
After playing second fiddle to Johnny Sexton four years ago, fly-half Owen Farrell has the chance to cement his place come the first Test, and he will be tasked with getting the Lions backline moving for the first time on the trip.
Alun Wyn Jones reprises the captaincy role he held in the decisive Test in 2013, with George Kruis alongside him to run the line-out.
Just like the Blues, there is All Blacks experience throughout the Crusaders, from an all-international front row, to the classy Israel Dagg at full-back.
Despite the defeat by the Blues on Wednesday, there were genuine signs of improvement and cohesion from the Lions, especially in the set piece and defence.
But to beat New Zealand teams they have to score points, and a total of 29 in 160 minutes so far on tour is insufficient.
The selection of Farrell, and the cut and thrust of the likes of Jonathan Davies, Liam Williams and George North, should all help the attacking game, but if the Lions struggle to create or finish opportunities they will be beaten by a Crusaders side yet to lose in 2017.
A second loss in a week would crank the pressure up on the tourists; conversely a win would be a significant statement with the Test series a fortnight away.
Lions head coach Warren Gatland: "The aim was always to start everyone in the first three matches and this selection ensures that we achieve this."
Crusaders fullback Israel Dagg: "Northern hemisphere teams, they love a kick, so we will be preparing ourselves to have an aerial battle."
2 - Tries on tour so far for the Lions
6 - Number of All Blacks in the Crusaders forward pack
"A lot of Carter in Mo'unga" - Rugby Heaven
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Lions: S Hogg; G North, J Davies; B Te'o, L Williams; O Farrell; C Murray; M Vunipola, J George, T Furlong; AW Jones (capt), G Kruis; P O'Mahony, S O'Brien, T Faletau
Replacements: K Owens, J McGrath, D Cole, M Itoje, CJ Stander, R Webb, J Sexton, A Watson
Crusaders: I Dagg, S Tamanivalu, J Goodhue, D Havili, G Bridge, R Mo'unga, B Hall, J Moody, C Taylor, O Franks, L Romano, S Whitelock (capt), H Bedwell-Curtis, M Todd, J Taufua.
Replacements: B Funnell, W Crockett, M Alaalatoa, Q Strange, J Brown, M Drummond, M Hunt, T Bateman.


The family of a woman with autism who had to be cared for in England because there was no suitable facility in Wales has launched a judicial review against the Welsh government.

Claire Dyer moved to a specialist unit in Brighton because staff in Swansea could not cope with her behaviour.
Her family said a suitable facility might have been found in Wales if more research was done.
The High Court in Cardiff is hearing the review.
The 21-year-old's family obtained an injunction to block the move last year but Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board's decision to move her 230 miles (370km) was later upheld by a judge.
Ian Wise QC, representing the family, told the court Miss Dyer had moderate to severe learning difficulties and autism spectrum disorder, which results in very challenging behaviour.
He said she had been sectioned under the Mental Health Act several times in Wales and the move to Brighton was "devastating" to her.
Part of the problem was that information on the number of women with autism placed in health authority medium secure accommodation was not collected in an "understandable way", he argued.
He said it was a "failure by the relevant authorities to realise their statutory obligations".
"Our case is not that the Welsh government has or should have a policy that all patients's needs should be met in Wales regardless of the costs, neither is it the case that failure to complete all reports must have led to a breach, neither is it the case that there is a a requirement on bodies to consider all conceivable information," he said.
Judge Mr Hickinbottom responded: "You are saying that the relevant decision makers have not properly informed themselves of the relevant data and consequently could not make a lawful decision, but if they had gathered that data and made a lawful decision then the facilities might have been available, the accommodation might have been different."
The hearing continues.


Lock Alun Wyn Jones is expected to be the last of Ospreys' 2017 British and Irish Lions tourists to return to action in the forthcoming season.

Jones started all three Tests against New Zealand, while scrum-half Rhys Webb came off the bench in each of them.
Fly-half Dan Biggar and flanker Justin Tipuric did not play in the Tests.
"You'd expect someone like Alun Wyn to be last [to return] with the amount of rugby he's played," said new Ospreys forward coach Allen Clarke.
"The likes of Tips and Rhys will be a little bit earlier, but that's going to be - I would suggest - more the middle of September and thereafter."
The revamped Pro14 season awaits the Lions quartet and Clarke is relishing the prospect of working with 31-year-old Jones, who has won 110 Wales caps and nine more for the Lions.
Jones faced social media and pundit criticism after the Lions lost the first Test against New Zealand and Clarke was impressed by his response as Warren Gatland's tourists fought back to draw.
"Alun Wyn in particular probably epitomises what an Osprey player is about," said former Ulster hooker and forwards coach Clarke.
"He may have come under a little bit of criticism, but he built into the series and his performance improved, he showed resilience, he blocked out what wasn't important, he focused on what is important.
"And I haven't had any direct conversation with him.
"I was looking as an outsider, as a supporter of the Lions, but obviously as someone who wanted to see Ospreys players do particularly well.
"And I felt it was fantastic, where he ended up, the contribution he showed, particularly in Tests two and three."
Clarke also says Wales back-rows Dan Lydiate (knee) and James King (ankle) are "making good progress" as they target returning in the new season.


A new law is needed to protect workers' savings held by companies that provide auto-enrolment pension schemes, a minister has said.

Fears that dozens of companies providing these pensions are too small to survive were explored in a recent BBC investigation.
Now Pensions Minister Ros Altmann has told MPs that legislation is needed to "ensure proper protection" for savers.
She said that she was pushing for a slot for a law to be proposed.
"We know that doing nothing is not an option," she told the Work and Pensions Select Committee.
Workers are being automatically enrolled into a workplace pension by employers in a rolling programme set out by the government, although employees are free to opt out.
So-called Master Trust schemes, which manage pensions, are popular with the 1.8 million small employers with fewer than 30 staff who are currently signing up staff under the auto-enrolment programme.
Only five have some kind of kitemark, and The Pensions Regulator told the BBC that there was a risk that some of the smaller schemes might not survive, putting savers' money at risk.
This was confirmed by Baroness Altmann, who said that there were concerns over some of the smaller operators among the 72 Master Trusts in the UK.
She said that savers' pensions could be affected if these trusts went under, because the wind-up costs faced by the trusts could effectively eat into these savings.
Protection required a new law, she said, adding that she was "pressing for a pensions bill" to do so. This has yet to be put into the government's legislative programme.
MPs on the committee asked why this protection was not in place when the auto-enrolment system was set up.
Charlotte Clark, director of private pensions at the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), admitted that the number of trusts that had been set up had taken the DWP by surprise.


Ellie Muffitt says the way her university handled her complaint of sexual assault sent her into a spiral of depression.

She considered suicide and ended up dropping out of her course.
Ellie was three weeks into her first year in 2010 when the incident took place in her student room.
It took several weeks for her to summon up courage to report it to the university.
"I was just hoping he would be moved to another hall.
"I didn't want a scene. I just didn't want to live near him any more."
But instead of the support she had hoped for, the university insisted she referred the matter to the police, which had not been her original intention.
The process snowballed and she felt she had lost control of it, with hours spent giving statements at the local police station and visits from officers to her room on campus.
"It was the exact opposite of what I needed at the time because I was already trying to get over losing control during the incident.
"I felt I was being made to go through the legal process in order to get support from the university."
With hindsight, she feels that she probably didn't realise how much pressure she was under in the following weeks.
"I remember feeling stressed and uncomfortable but I wasn't struggling with depression at the time."
She became aware that some fellow students were avoiding her: "I felt in the wrong," she says.
She went home from university to recover - but says that her return the following September to retake her first year, coincided with the case coming to court.
The young man was acquitted and the university also refused to tell her whether he was still studying there.
It was then that her mental state descended into severe depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
She considered ending her life but says no-one on the university staff ever suggested counselling.
She made the decision to take fortnightly sessions herself, something she believes saved her life.
She says the university was "consistently unhelpful" and "made it so much worse and so much more life-threatening than it ever needed to be".
She wishes they had considered her "like a person, rather than like a case" and that someone had suggested counselling to her at the outset.
"I think it would have helped me come to terms with the stress I was under and become aware of the possible mental health problems I might get."
She became involved in a student union campaign on sexual assault and harassment but eventually dropped out of her course 18 months later.
In her view, universities need to be "as proactive and supportive of the victim as possible".
"It's interesting that the union was further ahead than the university."
She welcomes the new guidelines as "a step" towards ensuring that situations like hers are "handled correctly" from the outset.
Ms Muffitt waived her right to anonymity for this interview.


Fresh from the chill of the ski slope, it was time for myself and Goz to take on one of Britain's best-loved summer sports, Tennis.

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Other than the odd lesson in PE at high school, I have no real experience of Tennis and I didn't have any particularly strong feelings about it beforehand. In fact, as far as I was concerned, this was a nice, leisurely sport, complete with strawberries, cream and the great British sunshine. Wrong.
Firstly, our lesson took place indoors on a chilly, overcast day in Yorkshire (despite the sun always shining in God's own county) and secondly- this is no 'leisurely' sport.
From our arrival at the John Charles Centre for Sport (one of the leading venues for disability sport in the UK), it was obvious that this would be no 'easy ride.' On the court opposite, a game of Visually Impaired tennis was taking place with one of the players ranked second in the whole country. Whereas, on our court, we were faced with Nick, who is currently training for a place in the Wheelchair Racing squad at Rio 2016. I don't know how we always end up in these pickles…
Hitting the ball is hard enough; let alone hitting it in the right direction, within the correct lines, over the net and on target. Throw in a Serve or two and it's enough to send you into a sporting frenzy! Having said that, I actually really enjoyed the session and could have happily carried on way into the night. I found it really quite addictive and even though I wasn't particularly any good, I was eager to improve and weirdly felt that I had some sort of potential.
What's great about Tennis too is that it's accessible to all. It was easy enough for myself and Goz to play together. It's also very flexible in that you can play as a team or as a soloist… I guess dependent on how social you're feeling on the day!
Although I have to admit, I do have a new-found respect for Tennis after discovering just how much skill is involved. At professional level, you clearly need a high level of fitness, coordination and tactical intelligence to succeed. However, at an amateur level, this is a really good fun sport that appeals to all ages, genders and abilities.
I genuinely really enjoyed myself during the session and am seriously considering this as a sport that I will continue for years to come. Who knows, this might not be the last time you see me with a racket and ball…
A friend once said to me that summer does not start until the Cricket season starts. Well not for me, it's all about the tennis!
So when I got to see Venus and Serena Williams playing a doubles match in the 2012 Olympics at Wimbledon, then watching Nicholas Taylor (the American player who uses his feet to serve) in the Paralympics at Olympic Park, it was humbling and inspiring and allowed me to think I could at least give it a try.
So its more than a bit of an understatement if I said I was looking forward to giving this sport ago.
Once we had been put through our paces with a warm up game with some more experienced disabled players. The aim was to stay within the outside tennis court lines, and try not to get caught by the player that was trying to chase you down, a bit like Tag.
Then we got a break down of the rules from the coaches, such as the 'two-bounce rule', which means as a disabled player I can allow the ball to bounce twice but must hit the ball before a third bounce. So if I play Andy Murray (in my dreams) he has one bounce, I have two.
My disability has affected my body in a way that my strength is diagonal so the top of my body is stronger on the left side and on the bottom part of my body I am stronger on my right side. This means I have always had to work around doing things someone else in a wheelchair may not have to think about. Why do I tell you this? My serve! I can't use my right arm to serve like a pro.
I also learnt that you have to be stationary when serving and that the ball cannot bounce before you hit it across the net. What I devised was to balance the ball on the racket, throw it up in the air and before it lands hit it over the net, well that was the plan. So when I finally got it over the net and the opponent player hit it back I felt like a double Wimbledon champion!
To round off our lesson we played the game champion, this was where one set of players were champion and everyone else had to beat them to get the tile champion from them. It was the best of three. I don't know what it is but the competitiveness always comes out and the fact is I want to win… No, I need to win! Coach, Ross and myself did win, with no thanks to me. Woooohoooo!
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Turkish F-16 and F-4 warplanes have bombed Kurdish PKK rebel targets near the Iraqi border, as their ceasefire comes under increasing strain.

The air strikes on Daglica were in response to PKK shelling of a military outpost, the armed forces said.
Both sides have been observing a truce and it is the first major air raid on the PKK since March 2013.
Kurds are furious at Turkey's inaction as Islamic State (IS) militants attack the Syrian border town of Kobane.
Fighters from the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) have been aiding Kurdish YPG militia in Kobane and Turkey has refused to help supply its long-standing enemy with weapons or allow Kurdish fighters to enter Syria.
Two PKK commanders wounded in fighting were arrested by Turkish authorities when they arrived for treatment in hospital in south-eastern Turkey, Anatolia news agency reported.
Separately, some 260 YPG militiamen were arrested when they crossed into Turkey last week, although 60 of them were allowed to go back, Turkish media reported.
French President Francois Hollande appealed to the government in Ankara on Tuesday to open its border, as US-led fighter jets continued to target IS fighters in and around Kobane.
The air raids on PKK positions near the south-eastern village of Daglica on Monday caused "heavy casualties", Hurriyet daily reported.
The strikes followed a three-day PKK assault on a military outpost with heavy machine guns and rocket launchers, it said.
Clashes were also reported between the PKK and troops in the Tunceli area of east-central Turkey on Monday, far from the border.
Last week Kurdish protests gripped Turkey's Kurdish-majority south-eastern provinces. At least 31 people died in widespread street clashes, as Kurds vented their anger at Turkey's passive policy over Kobane.
The army imposed a curfew in some areas. But some of the fighting was reported to be between PKK supporters and Islamist Kurds sympathetic to IS.
Heavy fighting has been raging in Kobane since mid-September, as Syrian Kurds battle to defend the town against better-armed IS militants.
Turkey treats the PKK as a "terrorist" organisation and its leader Abdullah Ocalan is in jail. But he has been Turkey's main point of contact in peace negotiations since he was incarcerated in 2012.
The PKK - also labelled "terrorist" by Western governments - has been waging a 30-year insurgency for self-rule in eastern Turkey. The unrest has killed more than 40,000 people.


Senior Labour figures at Westminster have sought to play down the significance of a vote by the Scottish party to scrap Trident.

Scottish Labour voted overwhelmingly at its conference in Perth to support a motion not to renew the nuclear weapons.
The position has been backed by the party leader Jeremy Corbyn.
But shadow defence secretary Maria Eagle told the BBC the vote was no more than a contribution to the debate.
She said: "This is an input from Scottish Labour into the policy-making process.
"This does not change our policy. Defence is not a devolved matter and Labour party policy has to be set at a UK level.
"I am conducting a review that will be a serious one, that will be based on evidence, it will have extensive consultation and will be taking views from across the Labour movement and Labour voters."
It is understood that Labour's review of defence policy is unlikely to be concluded before parliament votes on Trident renewal  - possibly early next year.
Sources have said that any change of policy on Trident, which is based at the Faslane submarine base on the Clyde, would take up to two years to complete.
This means Labour's official position would still be to support Trident in the Commons vote, even though Mr Corbyn is opposed to such a move.
Scottish Labour leader Kezia Dugdale, who supports multilateral disarmament, watched as a motion opposing the renewal of nuclear weapons won just over 70% of the vote at the conference.
The vote means that Mr Corbyn and Ms Dugdale have different views on the issue from each other and from their own parties.
Mr Corbyn's spokesman welcomed the Scottish vote as "a clear sign that Labour's democracy has opened up."
He said the decision would "feed into the wider UK Labour debate and review of defence policy."
Meanwhile, a statement issued by the Babcock Marine Clyde industrial shop stewards committee at Faslane and the neighbouring Coulport facility cast doubt on claims that jobs at the bases could be saved through diversification if Trident is not renewed.
The statement said: "Those that choose to perpetuate the myth of diversification would be as well telling us to apply for jobs in Brigadoon. This utopian land of employment that these people would have us believe exists is no more than a jobs mirage."
It also said that the committee was "dismayed and angered" by Unite Scotland`s position after the union's leadership backed the calls for Trident to be scrapped.
The committee said: "It is not supportive of our membership, and members have expressed the feeling this morning that their union is treating them like mugs by taking their union subscriptions and failing to support their future livelihoods."
In the conference debate, Unite's senior Scottish official Pat Rafferty argued that the UK should take a lead on nuclear non-proliferation and use the money saved from scrapping Trident to make defence diversification work.
The GMB union accused Scottish Labour of "Alice in Wonderland" politics over its vote.
The union said Scottish Labour needed to "get real" over the 40,000 defence jobs that it said would be at risk, and said it would not "play politics" with defence workers jobs.
The Scottish Conservatives have staged a "day of action" in Helensburgh, near the Faslane base, which it said was aimed at "backing Faslane's future and standing-up for strong UK defence".
The party said there were currently 6,500 military and civilian jobs at Faslane, with the figure set to increase to more than 8,000 by 2022.
The Scottish government will hold a debate on Trident at Holyrood on Tuesday.
The SNP, which has pledged to remove nuclear weapons from Scottish waters, has described Labour as "hopelessly divided" on issues such as Trident.
SNP MSP Bill Kidd said: "We welcome Scottish Labour's conference vote opposing the renewal of Trident - but the truth is that unless they can convince their colleagues at Westminster to vote against renewal in the House of Commons, their decision will be utterly meaningless.
"The fact that their shadow defence secretary has now said that the renewal of Trident is nothing to do with the Scottish Labour party and that the Scottish conference vote therefore 'does not change' the party's policy simply reflects the reality that the Scottish party cannot dictate UK Labour policy."
Conservative leader and Prime Minister David Cameron has always maintained the UK needs to keep its nuclear weapons, calling it as "insurance policy" against attacks. Replacing Trident was a Tory manifesto pledge in the general election.
Labour has supported Trident renewal, saying it has been a "cornerstone" of peace and security for nearly 50 years - but that policy is now in doubt after the election of long-time opponent Jeremy Corbyn as party leader. He says the issue will form part of their defence review, but has also said that even if there were a replacement system, he would never use them as PM.
The SNP, which now has 56 MPs in the House of Commons, opposes Trident renewal. During the election campaign it described Trident as "unusable and indefensible - and the plans to renew it are ludicrous on both defence and financial grounds".
The Lib Dems, who insisted on no final decision being taken while they were in coalition, have always been sceptical about a like-for-like replacement and insisted on a value for money review. They back a "step down the nuclear ladder" with a smaller nuclear weapons system providing a "minimal yet credible" deterrent.
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The row over Netflix's place at Cannes has been reignited by its jury on the first day of the prestigious festival.

For the first time, two Netflix films are competing for the Palme d'Or this year.
However from next year, films will have to be released in French cinemas if they want to be considered.
Jury president Pedro Almodovar agreed with the change, saying films should always be seen on the big screen and he was "concerned" about the issue.
Tilda Swinton film Okja, and The Meyerowitz Stories - starring British actress Emma Thompson and Ben Stiller - are the first Netflix films to be shown at Cannes which are up for the main prize.
The jury, which is also made up of Will Smith, Jessica Chastain and Paolo Sorrentino, will pick the Palme d'Or winner out of the 19 films in competition next weekend.
Almodovar gave a passionate defence of cinema at the festival's opening press conference, saying he didn't think films should be considered for prizes if they had not had a cinema release.
Reading from a pre-prepared statement, he said: "All this doesn't mean I'm not open, or don't celebrate the new technology and the possibilities they offer to us.
"But while I'm alive, I will be fighting for the one thing the new generation is not aware of - the capacity of hypnosis of a large screen for a viewer."
The Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown director said he could not conceive the Palme d'Or - or any other prize - "being given to a film and then not being able to see the film on a big screen".
He was applauded by the audience for his strong remarks.
But Men in Black star Smith - giving an exuberant press conference performance in his debut as a jury member - disagreed with the cinema great.
The star, who has a film in the works with the streaming giant, said his children both go to the movies twice a week and watch Netflix.
"There's very little cross between going to the cinema and watching what they watch on Netflix," he mused, saying they were "two different forms of entertainment" and that Netflix "brings a great amount of connectivity".
"In my home, Netflix has been nothing but an absolute benefit. [They] watch films they otherwise wouldn't have seen. It has broadened my children's global cinematic comprehension."
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A "grumpy" 31-stone (200kg) tiger with an infected tooth has been treated by a Mayfair dentist.

Keepers at Noah's Ark Zoo near Bristol noticed their large male tiger, Khan, was "a bit off" and spotted a chip in his five-inch-long (13cm) canine tooth.
Faced with the "dilemma" of dealing with a tiger with toothache, the zoo called in London surgeon and part-time zoo dentist Dr Peter Kertesz.
Following a 45-minute operation, the zoo said Kahn was "visibly happier".
The tiger has the "strongest bite force of any of the big cats", according to the animal park.
To perform thee operation, staff had to administer a "carefully calculated dose of anaesthetic" and ensure the big cat's jaw was kept open.
"Khan was under general anaesthetic for about two hours," said Jon Woodward, from Noah's Ark.
"Too much anaesthetic would have resulted in death and too little would mean he would wake up - and you don't want that.
"We also had to keep the tiger's mouth open because if it had snapped shut, it would have taken an arm off."
With the help of his dental nurse, Dr Kertesz was able to save the cracked tooth by removing the tip and filling the big cat's root canal.
"It was an important procedure, as infections like this can lead to more serious health issues if left untreated," he said.
"It was excellent observation on behalf of his keepers to spot the problem early."


A 36-year-old woman will stand trial accused of murdering her taxi driver husband in Perth.

Louise Anderson is alleged to have killed Douglas Anderson, 39, by stabbing him in the leg at their home on 25 February.
The mother-of-four made a second appearance in private at Perth Sheriff Court before Sheriff Lindsay Foulis.
She is also accused of assaulting Mr Anderson's sister Bernadette Anderson in the Grill Bar in Perth.
Mrs Anderson is further alleged to have assaulted Fay McKenzie in the same pub.
She made no plea or declaration during the hearing and the case was fully committed for trial.


Card and contactless payment could become mandatory in all London black cabs from October 2016, Transport for London (TfL) has said.

A consultation found 86% of respondents were in favour of card payment, while 68% wanted the option of contactless payment.
Customers paying by card will not pay a surcharge.
But there will be a 20p rise on the basic fare, which is Â£2.40 at the start of the journey, TfL said.
Steve McNamara of the Licensed Taxi Drivers Association said the majority of cab drivers already accepted cards.
"But we welcome TfL having used their bargaining power to reduce the costs to cabbies charged by the card providers."
London Mayor Boris Johnson said: "This move will boost business for cabbies and bring the trade into the 21st Century by enabling quicker and more convenient journeys for customers."
Garrett Emmerson, TfL's chief operating officer for surface transport, said: "We are seeing more and more people use contactless payments on our network, and mandating card payments in taxis will mean customers no longer have to consider how they might pay for a journey before getting into a taxi."
Valerie Shawcross, chair of the London Assembly's transport committee, said the move was a "golden opportunity" for licensed taxi drivers.
"We heard evidence from New York during our investigation, where the introduction of card payments boosted business," she said.


Venezuelan opposition politician Manuel Rosales has been arrested on his return to the country after six years of self-imposed exile.

Mr Rosales, who said he wanted to take part in December's parliamentary elections, was detained shortly after landing in the city of Maracaibo.
He ran against the late President Hugo Chavez in 2006.
Mr Rosales fled to Peru in 2009 amid corruption allegations, which he says are politically motivated.
He was arrested on Thursday as he arrived at Maracaibo from the Dutch Caribbean island of Aruba. He is expected to appear in court in Caracas shortly.
Mr Rosales is charged with corruption during his term as governor of Zulia state between 2000 and 2008.
Mr Rosales had announced last Friday that he was planning to return to Venezuela.
Shortly before departing from Aruba he posted a picture of him boarding.
"With God and the Virgin Mary, preparing to go to Venezuela to meet my people again," he posted on Twitter.
The authorities had warned that there was an arrest warrant against him.
Venezuelans go to the polls on 6 December for the first parliamentary elections since President Nicolas Maduro was elected in 2013.
The country is facing a serious economic crisis, which the opposition blames on failed socialist policies of Mr Chavez and his successor, Mr Maduro.
The government says the country has been hit by a sharp drop in international oil prices, but it also accuses powerful groups of boycotting the economy to destabilise Mr Maduro.
Several other opposition leaders have also been detained since last year.
Last month, prominent opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez was found guilty of inciting violence during protests in 2014 in which 43 people - from both sides of the political divide - were killed.
He was sentenced to 13 years and nine months in prison.
The US government and the United Nations have called for the release of the opposition politicians.


About 300 Northern Ireland farmers have attended a debate on the EU referendum organised by the Ulster Farmers' Union.

They gathered at the Eikon Complex near Lisburn in County Antrim to hear pro- and anti-EU arguments.
Former environment secretary Owen Paterson and former National Farmers' Union president Sir Peter Kendall were on the debate panel.
A straw poll at the end of the debate showed an audience majority favour a vote for the UK to leave the EU.
A referendum on whether the UK should stay in the EU will be held on 23 June.
Earlier, Mr Paterson said the government would match EU subsidy levels after a Leave vote, but the money would be spent in a much more targeted away.
In response, Sir Peter told those attending that government policy was to phase out subsidies and farmers could be "disastrously disadvantaged".
Mr Paterson said it would be in the EU's interests to cut a trade deal with the UK because many jobs in the union depended on exports to the UK.
But Sir Peter said Mr Paterson was "just wrong" on trade deals, which were hard to conclude.
The two men also differed fundamentally on the matter of the Irish border.
Mr Paterson said the notion that there would be "stripy poles at the border" where a man in a "funny hat" would "stop the stagecoaches" was outdated thinking.
Sir Peter said European markets provided key markets for local produce and customs controls would lead to "lots and lots of problems".
Farmers asked questions about the commitment from a UK parliament dominated by urban MPs for farm support.
Others raised issues of sovereignty and accountability of decision making at European level.


India's food watchdog has banned the use of a cancer-causing chemical in bakery products, a senior official said.

The Food Safety Standards Authority of India  (FSSAI) took the decision after a study found residues of potassium bromate in 84% of bakery product samples collected in Delhi.
The study said the chemical "can cause cancer".
The FSSAI said a notification announcing the ban has been issued.
"FSSAI  has banned potassium bromate," PTI news agency quoted the watchdog chief Pawan Kumar Agarwal as saying.
Delhi-based environmental think-tank Centre for Science and Environment (CSE), which conducted the study, has said it was expecting the government to also ban potassium iodate, another toxic chemical, in bakery products.
"As far as potassium iodate is concerned, it has been referred to a scientific panel," Mr Agarwal said on Monday.
Both the chemicals are banned in many countries, but India continues to allow their use in bakeries.
The CSE had collected 38 bread and other baked food samples from retail stores, bakeries and fast-food shops in Delhi for its study.
"More than 84% of samples tested were found to contain potassium bromate and/or iodate," the study said.


Ross Brawn says he has not accepted any position running Formula 1 under the sport's new owners.

The 61-year-old former Mercedes F1 boss told BBC Sport he was doing some consultancy work for Liberty Media, which is in the process of buying a controlling stake in F1.
But he said the company was not ready to make any definitive job offers.
"Liberty have not got far enough down the road to make any commitments yet," said the Englishman.
"I'm doing a little consulting to help them better understand F1 but that's all."
Brawn was said by a report in Germany's Auto Bild to have signed a deal with Liberty to run their involvement in the sporting and commercial aspects of F1.
F1 Racing magazine has also tweeted that the deal was done.
But Brawn told BBC Sport it "all depends" what Bernie Ecclestone, the chief executive officer of the F1 Group, does in the future.
Liberty Media has, for the time being, kept Ecclestone on in his role, under new chairman Chase Carey.
Ecclestone has said he has been given a three-year contract but there has been no official confirmation from Liberty.
The 86-year-old is expected to leave in the medium to long term, and many insiders believe he will be replaced by at least two executives - one to look after the commercial side of the sport; the other the sporting side.
Ecclestone has sole responsibility for both areas. His prime role is to secure the sport's income, which is sourced from television contracts, race fees and external corporate sponsorship.
But he also has a role in rule-making through the strategy group, on which the leading teams and governing body the FIA also sit, and the next steps of the legislative process, the FIA's F1 Commission and World Council.
This protocol is enshrined in the teams' contracts until 2020, after which a new deal will have to be reached. Negotiations on that have not started and will be among Liberty's first concerns.
Its buy-out of controlling shareholder CVC Capital Partners in a $4.4bn deal began in September and is expected to be completed by early next year.


Ulster have been in contact with new signing Marcell Coetzee after he sustained a bad knee injury playing for his current club the Sharks.

The South Africa back row had to be carried off during the Sharks' 24-9 Super Rugby defeat by the Lions.
The 24-year-old is moving to Ulster in the summer, but his debut will now be delayed by several months.
"Marcell is already taking a positive outlook," said Bryn Cunningham, Ulster's Operations Director.
"He is really excited about getting fitter and stronger than ever before, to excel for Ulster next season and beyond.
"I spoke with Marcell and his agent over the weekend to express our sympathy with the injury.
"It was incredibly unlucky, but that is the nature of any contact sport.
"We have been discussing rehab schedules and other finer details, and also an arrival time for next season, which will be finalised in the next few weeks."
After being carried off on a stretcher, Coetzee was taken to hospital in Durban and Sharks coach Gary Gold said it did not look good.
Coetzee, who has 28 South Africa caps, is to join Ulster on a three-year contract after the end of the Super Rugby season.


Twelve Australian families have lost their homes to bushfires near Melbourne, days ahead of Christmas.

Fire authorities are also warning of dangerous hot and windy conditions on Christmas and Boxing Day.
Crews were still tackling a blaze at Scotsburn, west of the city, for a third day on Monday.
The Country Fire Authority's (CFA) Craig Lapsley said one firefighter had been injured, but it was extremely fortunate no lives had been lost.
Some firefighters were struggling to stand due to the high temperatures and strong winds.
But Mr Lapsley said cooler weather on Sunday provided a reprieve.
"All people are accounted for which is a great result. We were blessed we got rain," Mr Lapsley told the ABC.
"The winds will be up a little bit this afternoon, the key issue is that it will progressively get hotter over the next few days and build to Friday, so we are sort of focusing now towards Christmas Day being the hottest day of the week and between now and then, we want to make sure any fire, any lightning strike that is hitting the bush we get on top of."
Scotsburn residents told Australian media they were lucky to be alive.
"Our plan was to pack up the valuables and obviously photos and those sorts of things and leave, and we got a load in the car, and the fire turned, and that's all the time we had," Bruce Rae said.


Aberdeen can see off Celtic's challenge to win the Premiership title this season, according to former Dons defender Neale Cooper.

The Dons are four points behind leaders Celtic with 10 league games remaining.
Cooper said Celtic lacked "fight, passion and desire" when Aberdeen beat Ronny Deila's side at Pittodrie earlier this season.
"It [the title] is there for Aberdeen to do," Cooper said on BBC Scotland's Sportsound. "I honestly believe that."
Aberdeen capitalised on Celtic dropping two points at home to Dundee by claiming victory at Tannadice to narrow the gap at the top of the table.
And Cooper believes his former club have the chance to win their first title since 1984/85.
"I said when Aberdeen the last game against Celtic and Simon Church scored the winner: that night I saw a Celtic team I hadn't seen in years," he said.
"I thought they lacked fight, passion and desire - which all Celtic teams have shown in the past.
"I know Aberdeen have had a few draws when Celtic drew and then Aberdeen fell back because they drew as well.
"But it [the win against Dundee United] was a massive result for them.
"It's very tough to finally get it done. The last time we won the league in 1984/85 when I was playing, we didn't beat Celtic in two games at Parkhead.
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"That's quite hard to believe and then go on and win the title that season. I think there's a great confidence at Aberdeen.
"It's put more pressure on Celtic but I feel Celtic have missed all season a star player. It's all very well putting pressure on Leigh Griffiths and he'll score goals - but not just him alone.
"I don't really see anyone else who's really star quality in that side."
Cooper hailed the progress the Dons have made under Derek McInnes, a manager he believes is proving to be the best at Pittodrie since Sir Alex Ferguson.
"He's brought a buzz about the town," said Cooper. "Okay, being out of both cup competitions was a blow. Now they're totally focused on the league. The fans are totally behind him and the city is really supporting Aberdeen in a massive way."


Christian Matlock is a bounty hunter who spends his days and nights tracking down fugitives who have skipped bail in the US state of Virginia.

With his dark sunglasses, his gun and his tattoos, he looks every inch the movie stereotype of the maverick American law enforcement officer, but until seven years ago Christian lived in Brechin.
He swapped the east coast of Scotland for the eastern seaboard of the US when he was 21.
He worked briefly as a bouncer in Washington DC before obtaining a licence as a bail enforcement agent, often referred to as bounty hunters.
They are contracted by bondsmen, money lenders who offer to cover bail money for those who can't afford it in exchange for a 10% commission.
If the accused fails to show in court the bondsman loses the entire sum unless a bounty hunter can track down the fugitive.
In Virginia, like most US states, it is not only police who get to carry guns and chase criminals.
Christian says: "Every boy, every man wants to have the gun and go kicking in doors.
"It's exciting being like that but I prefer being the undercover detective kind of guy."
He says he is not a typical bounty hunter and has a low opinion of some others who seem to delight in the macho violence of the job.
Christian moved to the US seven years ago to track down his American father.
He had been getting into a lot of trouble at home and could not get a job.
"Plus I thought Americans always looked a lot cooler in movies so I thought I'd give it a try," he says.
In the BBC documentary - The Scottish Bounty Hunter - Christian tells how he felt the need to escape his home town because he was taking "a lot of ecstasy" during "week-long parties".
"There was bugger all else to do," he says.
"I feel like in Scotland I was supposed to die there."
His mother tells the programme she is pleased he left.
She says: "They were getting into trouble with the police and drinking and hanging around with the wrong people.
"Brechin doesn't have anything going for it really. There's not a lot of work in the area. It's like some place to sleep now.
"There's no potential here for young people."
Christian sees similar problems in Virginia.
About 80% of the jobs he gets as a bounty hunter are drugs related.
He says he wants to help offenders and their families get back to a normal life but he gets paid for finding and putting people back in jail.
He says: "I can't feel sorry for anyone or I'd just end up taking handcuffs off everybody.
"I've thought about taking them off many times and letting folk go but I can't do that. This is what I signed up for."
Christian can use lots of different methods to track people down but his first port of call is Facebook, which can give him clues to where people like to go and who they might be with.
He says he caught a woman in Maryland because she used Facebook "check in".
Christian says he knew she was going to a beauty school but didn't know which one.
"She would 'check in' at this coffee shop every single morning," he says.
"Every morning she was there at the same time 'Getting coffee on my way to school' - on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday.
"On the Thursday - no check in. Because I checked her into Winchester jail."
As well as getting paid to put people in jail, Christian makes money getting people out.
Four years ago he started lending bail money as a bondsman himself.
In an average week he'll track down five or six people and bail even more out of jail.
He says the job is stressful, dangerous and exhausting.
"Bounty hunters don't last very long," he says.
"I only know of three or four who have been in it as long as I have.
"They either can't handle the hours or can't handle the stress."
But Christian says he keeps doing it because it is a chance to help people turn their life around.
He says: "I've got a lot of relationships with people who might end up going off the rails if I left.
"This is a job you can't do half-arsed.
"You are either going to be a bounty hunter full time or you are not going to be one at all.
"I've tried to get out of it two or three times but I just can't seem to stop doing it."
The Scottish Bounty Hunter is on BBC One Scotland on Monday 13 February at 22:40.


Pakistani child education activist Malala Yousafzai has jointly won the Nobel Peace Prize, becoming its youngest ever recipient.

In 2009 she wrote a diary chronicling life under Taliban rule in Pakistan's north-western Swat valley. Three years later militants shot her in the head.
She survived and went on to be a global voice for education rights. These are some of the most affecting moments in the diary, which first appeared on BBC Urdu.
Saturday 3 January
I had a terrible dream yesterday with military helicopters and the Taliban. I have had such dreams since the launch of the military operation in Swat. My mother made me breakfast and I went off to school. I was afraid going to school because the Taliban had issued an edict banning all girls from attending schools...
On my way from school to home I heard a man saying 'I will kill you'. I hastened my pace and after a while I looked back if the man was still coming behind me. But to my utter relief he was talking on his mobile and must have been threatening someone else over the phone.
Thursday 15 Jan
Today is ... the last day before the Taliban's edict comes into effect, and my friend was discussing homework as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened.
Today, I also read the diary written for the BBC (in Urdu) and published in the newspaper. My mother liked my pen name 'Gul Makai' and said to my father 'why not change her name to Gul Makai?' I also like the name because my real name means 'grief stricken'.
Read all entries 3-15 January
Friday 18 Jan
My father told us that the government would protect our schools. The prime minister has also raised this issue. I was quite happy initially, but now I know but this will not solve our problem. Here in Swat we hear everyday that so many soldiers were killed and so many were kidnapped at such and such place. But the police are nowhere to be seen.
Thursday 22 Jan
Some of my friends have left Swat because the situation here is very dangerous. I do not leave home. At night Maulana Shah Dauran [the Taleban cleric who announced the ban on girls attending school] once again warned females not to leave home. He also warned that they would blow up those schools which are used by the security forces as security posts.
Read all entries 18-22 January
Saturday 25 January
It seems that it is only when dozens of schools have been destroyed and hundreds others closed down that the army thinks about protecting them. Had they conducted their operations here properly, this situation would not have arisen.
Wednesday 28 January
We are staying with our father's friend in Islamabad. It is my first visit to the city. It's beautiful with nice bungalows and wide roads. But as compared to my Swat city it lacks natural beauty...
Read all entries 24-28 January
Saturday 7 February
There was no one else besides people with long hair and beards. From their appearance they looked like Taleban. I saw some houses damaged due to shelling.
Sunday 8 February
I am sad watching my uniform, school bag and geometry box. I felt hurt on opening my wardrobe and seeing my uniform, school bag and geometry box. Boys' schools are opening tomorrow.
But the Taliban have banned girls' education.
Tuesday 19 February
I told my brothers that we will not talk of war but peace from now on. We received the information from our school headmistress that examinations will be held in the first week of March. I have stepped up my studies.
Read all entries 7-19 February


Saudi Arabia and three other Arab states have given Qatar an extra two days to accept a list of demands or face further sanctions.

They accuse Qatar of destabilising the region by supporting extremism and terrorism - which it denies.
They also want Qatar to shut the Al Jazeera TV network, close a Turkish military base and scale down Iran ties.
Qatar has responded formally but no details have been released. It has said the demands break international law.
The initial deadline for Qatar to agree to the group's 13 demands expired on Sunday.
Qatari Foreign Minister Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdul Rahman al-Thani was in Kuwait on Monday to hand over a formal response in the form of a letter from the emir of Qatar to the emir of Kuwait, the main mediator in the Gulf crisis.
In a statement released shortly beforehand, lawyers for Qatar denounced the demands and called for international condemnation.
They said the tactics were "reminiscent of the extreme and punitive conduct of 'bully' states that have historically resulted in war.
"The world must unite immediately to halt the singling out of Qatar for unjustified collective punishment and humiliation and to preserve peace, security and prosperity in the region."
Qatar has been under unprecedented diplomatic and economic sanctions for weeks from Saudi Arabia and its allies, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) and Bahrain.
The four countries, whose foreign ministers will meet on Wednesday to discuss the situation, have accused Qatar of harbouring Islamist groups that they consider terrorist organisations - including the Muslim Brotherhood - and giving them a platform on the Al Jazeera satellite channel, which is funded by the Qatari state. Doha denies the accusations.
The imposed restrictions have caused turmoil in Qatar, an oil- and gas-rich nation dependent on imports to meet the basic needs of its population of 2.7 million. As a result, Iran and Turkey have been increasingly supplying it with food and other goods.
UAE officials have told the BBC that after the new deadline expires on Tuesday, the offer for Qatar to return to the Arab fold will be off the table, the economic and political sanctions on it will become permanent and Qatar will be ostracised by its closest Arab neighbours.
The situation is the worst political crisis among Gulf countries in decades.
According to the Associated Press news agency, which obtained a copy of the list, Qatar must also:
An unnamed official from one of the four countries told Reuters news agency that Qatar was also being asked to sever links with so-called Islamic State, al-Qaeda and Lebanese Shia militant group Hezbollah.
The demands have not been officially unveiled. Their publication has increased the friction between the two sides.


South Africa could soon give sign language official status, one of a few countries in Africa to do so.

This is after a recommendation from the parliamentary constitutional review committee to alter the constitution.
The country's deaf community, which has lobbied for the change, says official recognition would help "give them a voice".
Sign language would become South Africa's 12th official language.
But it must still go through a parliamentary process before the change can be made.
In arguing for the change, the Pan South African Language Board (Pan SALB) said that communicating in sign language was a "fundamental human right".
"By declaring it an official language... [it will] to ensure that this language is taught in schools and government departments at some stage need to ensure that they bring people with the necessary skills to communicate with these communities," PanSALB's Sibusiso Nkosi is quoted as saying in local media.
The Centre of Constitutional Rights Phephelaphi Dube's said the move would lead to a change in how state institutions currently view sign language.
"All state institutions, schools hospitals, government departments would need to have personnel who know sign language and can communicate in it." News24 quotes her as saying.
If approved this means the private sector would also be compelled to make sure that personnel in their institutions and businesses are able to use sign language.
The first discussions on the matter started back in 2007, after a petition by the associations representing the deaf community in which they said millions were being excluded from accessing facilities and services because they were not able to communicate with service providers.
Several countries around the world do recognise sign language but that can have different implications in different places, and does not always guarantee provision.
In Africa, sign language is officially recognised in Zimbabwe's constitution. And in Kenya's constitution it says that the state should "promote" the use of sign language.


If there were any doubts that this has become a tight, hard-fought Canadian general election campaign, that went out the window very early during Thursday night's leaders' debate in Calgary.

It was a spirited, sometimes snippy affair that often seemed to spin out of control, as the back-and-forth between the three candidates - Conservative Prime Minister Stephen Harper and left-of-centre challengers Justin Trudeau of the Liberal Party and Thomas Mulcair of the New Democratic Party - descended into cacophony.
The debate's moderator, Toronto Globe and Mail editor-in-chief David Walmsley, pointed out in his introduction that this was only the second time a leaders debate had been held west of Toronto.
Its location - in the heart of Canada's oil and gas country - gave a particular sense of urgency to what was tabbed as the focus of the discussion, the economy.
The entire province of Alberta has been hit hard by job losses resulting from the sharp decline in oil prices, and its struggles have become a drag on the entire Canadian economy, which entered into recession earlier this year.
For his part, Mr Harper was single-minded in his focus on the danger he says his opponents pose to what he termed a "fragile economy".
He said Mr Trudeau's proposal for three years of deficit spending to fund increased infrastructure investment threatens out-of-control budget gaps. He accused Mr Mulcair, on the other hand, of risking harm to the economy with his plan to raise corporate taxes.
Mr Mulcair responded with a sharp criticism of Mr Harper's handling of the economy, which he said had become overly reliant on an energy sector that was bound to eventually falter.
"Mr Harper put all of his eggs in one basket," he said, "and then he dropped the basket."
As for Mr Trudeau, he employed a refrain made famous by an American president, Ronald Reagan. "Are you better off now than you were 10 years ago?" he asked, a reference to when Mr Harper's record-setting stretch as prime minister first began.
He added that Mr Harper had overseen the worst Canadian economic growth rate since the Great Depression.
Mr Harper had a reply at the ready, however, citing his stewardship of the Canadian economy during a time of global turmoil.
"In the last 10 years, where would you rather have been than Canada?" he asked. "Looking forward, where would you rather be but Canada?"
It was a theme Mr Harper would return to again toward the end of the debate, when he noted: "I have come to work seven years in a row with nothing but economic crises all of the world."
He offered a bit of a smile as he went through the litany - a banking crisis, a housing crisis, a debt crisis and the current "market chaos in China".
Although the debate's focus was the economy, jobs and taxes weren't the only terrain the three candidates fought over. Environmental policy also came up, and the immigration issue led to one of the more heated exchanges.
"These guys would have had, in the last two weeks, us throwing open our borders and literally hundreds of thousands of people coming without any kind of security check or documentation," Mr Harper said when asked about the recent Syrian refugee drama and how much Canada should do to take in the displaced.
He called such suggestions "an enormous mistake".
Both Mr Trudeau and Mr Mulcair responded by accusing the prime minister of fearmongering.
"Stop using the security excuse as a pretext to do nothing," Mr Mulcair snapped.
Mr Harper plays to the "fears of others, fears of different communities," Mr Trudeau said. "That's not right, sir."
According to Stephen Carter, a Calgary based political strategist, the real action in Thursday night's debate, however, was the shots traded between the two left-of-centre candidates.
In one particularly memorable exchange, Mr Trudeau described Mr Mulcair's universal childcare programme as amounting to ineffective "puffs of smoke".
"You know a little about that, don't you, Justin," Mr Mulcair quipped in a not-so-subtle reference to the Liberal leader's controversial support for marijuana decriminalisation.
The reason why the Mulcair-Trudeau confrontations were so critical, Carter says, is because although it's a three-way race, the battle over the nearly third of Canadian voters who are undecided is really only a fight between the two left parties.
Those on-the-fence voters have long since given up on the incumbent Conservatives.
"I thought we saw a debate between Mulcair and Trudeau only," he said.
"Stephen Harper sat on the side, letting them tear each other apart, without recognising that they weren't just tearing each other apart, they were defining the debate for the final 30 days of the election."
Mr Trudeau's objective was to dispel the notion that he's a political lightweight - a theme that the Conservatives have been hammering home in a recent advertising campaign. The expectations for him were low, and he likely more than met them with his debate performance.
The goal for Mr Mulcair was somewhat trickier. The NDP has never held power in Ottawa, and he had to assure voters that he would be a steady hand at the tiller - a task he appeared to accomplish as well.
Now Mr Mulcair and Mr Trudeau will have to seize on whatever momentum they can coming out of this debate and advance themselves as the best alternative to Mr Harper.
"After 150 years of being told we have no choice," Mr Mulcair said, "for the first time in our history there is another choice".
Mr Harper put forward a steady effort on Thursday night that contrasted with Mr Muldair's sardonic barbs and Mr Trudeau's occasionally breathless speaking style.
It's becoming clear, however, that he's going to have to thread an exceedingly narrow electoral needle to keep the government in his party's hands. If those undecideds end up breaking en masse toward either the Liberals or the NDP, he'll likely be packing his bags after the 19 October election.
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At least 80 people have been killed and hundreds of villagers left stranded in devastating flash floods in northern Afghanistan, officials say.

The governor of Jowzjan province warned that the number of victims was likely to rise.
People have been left trapped on the roofs of their homes and rescue helicopters have been deployed.
There are reports of flooding in other provinces in the north and west.
"Thousands of homes have been destroyed and thousands are suffering", Jowzjan's governor Boymurod Qoyinli told the BBC. He said that more than 80 people are missing and that 3,000 homes have been destroyed.
BBC Uzbek's Navid Nazari, reporting from the flood-hit areas, was told by one woman that she was taken by surprise by the flash flood just after reading evening prayers. She lost two of her children.
Heavy rain and storms on Thursday night created a perilous situation for villagers whose homes are largely built out of mud.
Three remote districts in the province were particularly badly affected, the governor told the BBC.
Our correspondent travelled on board one of the rescue helicopters deployed by the security forces.
He described a landscape where dozens of homes had been destroyed, many more submerged  and villagers crouched on the roofs of their homes.


A woman has been left in a critical condition in hospital after suffering a serious neck injury in a suspected assault.

The 52-year-old woman was initially treated for a heart attack by paramedics at a house in Lees Street, Manchester, at about 05:40 BST.
But doctors discovered she had a neck injury after an examination at hospital and then sedated her.
A 34-year-old woman has been arrested on suspicion of assault.
She remains in police custody.


UK top companies have reached a "major milestone" in increasing the number of women in their boardrooms, but more needs to be done, a report says.

There are no more all male board in FTSE 100 companies says the report's author, former trade minister Lord Davies.
FTSE 100 firms met a voluntary target of 25% of women board members.
But he says this should now replaced by a new target of 33% of women board members at FTSE 350 firms by 2020.
In 2011, women made up 12.5% of board members.
Lord Davies said that there had been a "steady and sustained increase" since then.
He cautioned against the introduction of legally enforced quotas to guarantee a female presence on boards, describing them as "unwarranted".
On the Today Programme, Lord Davies was asked why 260 of the 286 women on the boards of FTSE 100 companies are non-executives. Non-executive board members are involved in the policy making decisions for the business but not in the day to day operations.
"The focus of our work was on fixing the boardroom. We've done that and there's very few all-male boards left," Lord Davies he said.
"We now need to see the same change, through a voluntary approach, in the executive committee structure of big companies and small companies."
But Shainaz Firfiray, an assistant professor at Warwick Business School warned that setting quotas was not be enough to fix the boardroom gender gap: "It may not be enough for companies to simply appoint women to board positions in response to external pressures.
"Prior research has shown that women who succeed in typically male tasks such as leadership positions are more disliked and derogated, implying that women confront obstacles in work settings that are not encountered by men to the same degree."
She said diligent management was needed to ensure their appointments were effective.
Lord Davies said in his latest report that the next five years should see "substantive and sustainable improvement in women's representation on boards of FTSE 350 companies".
"Following five years of significant effort on the part of the biggest FTSE boards, all FTSE-listed companies should be taking action," he added.
The government has already said it plans to bring in a target to include women on the boards of all the UK's top 350 companies.
This will come as part of a series of "equality-boosting measures" which it hopes to introduce in the first half of 2016.
The role of a non-executive is to keep the management in check and look out for the interests of shareholders .
They are intended to be independent and differ from executives in that they do not work solely for the company and often serve on multiple boards. This is true of both men and women.
The report counts positions held by women not individuals, so women who serve on more than on board would have been counted multiple times.
Several female non-executive board members serve on more than one FTSE 100 board, including Jasmine Whitbread, who serves on the boards of BT and Standard Chartered and Mary Harris on the boards of ITV and household products giant Reckitt Benckiser.
According to executive search firm Audeliss, though if current trends continue many female  non-executive directors may leave their boards in the next 18 months as their terms expire.
Audeliss said that that could mean a drop in the number of top women non-executive directors  to 17%.


A world-leading climate change target up to the early 2030s is set to be confirmed by the British government.

Ministers are expected to announce that the UK will cut carbon emissions by 57% by 2032, from 1990 levels.
The announcement will help reassure the investors needed to overhaul the UK's ageing energy system.
The energy industry will be relieved after cuts in renewables subsidies and the vote to leave the EU, which influences so much of the UK's energy.
Energy Secretary Amber Rudd said climate change remained one of the most serious long-term risks to the economy.
Speaking at a business and climate summit in London, Ms Rudd said: "Climate change has not been downgraded as a threat.
"We must not turn our back on Europe or the world. So while I think the UK's role in dealing with a warming planet may have been made harder by the decision last Thursday, our commitment to dealing with it has not gone away."
Business spokesmen at the conference echoed a call by the former Labour Climate Secretary Ed Miliband for the prime minister immediately to ratify the Paris climate accord in which nearly 180 countries agreed to cut carbon emissions.
I understand, though, that there will be a warning note from the government's advisers - the Committee on Climate Change. They are expected to press ministers to urgently produce new policies to back up its ambitions.
The committee has previously calculated that the government's targets for low-carbon energy are on track, but said that a new approach is needed on CO2 emissions from housing as well as agriculture and transport - two sectors where emissions are growing.
Committee members have expressed their concern at the government's failure to support carbon capture and storage technology, which will allow fossil fuels to continue to be burned.
The prime minister said it was essential for the UK - before he withdrew the funds supporting the technology.
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Amniotic fluid may hold the key to healing a fatal gut disease which affects premature babies, doctors say.

Severe inflammation, called necrotizing enterocolitis, can destroy the gut's tissues and lead to major organ failure.
Early animal tests, published in the journal Gut, showed that stem cells inside amniotic fluid could heal some of the damage and increase survival.
Further tests are still needed before it is tried in premature babies.
Babies born too soon are not ready for the world outside the womb and their guts are ill-prepared to deal with food. About one in 10 premature babies in a neonatal intensive care will develop necrotizing enterocolitis.
The inflammation can cause tissue death and lead to a hole in the baby's intestines which can result in a serious infection.
Breast milk can reduce the risks, but the only major treatment is surgery to remove the diseased tissue. However, 40% of those needing an operation will not survive.
"It is quite a problem and we think it is on the increase," said Dr Simon Eaton, from the Institute of Child Health at University College London.
He was part of a team investigating the use of stem cells, which are able to become any other type of cell in the body from nerve to bone, taken from the amniotic fluid which surrounds a developing foetus in the womb.
In experiments on laboratory rats, which are programmed to develop fatal necrotizing enterocolitis, injections of stem cells appeared to increase survival times.
Dr Eaton told the BBC news website: "We're able to prolong survival by quite a long way.
"What appears to be happening is a direct effect on calming inflammation and also stimulating resident stem cells in the gut to be more efficient at repairing the intestines."
The study, funded by Great Ormond Street Hospital Children's Charity, showed the intestines were also working better after the treatment.
Fellow researcher Dr Paolo De Coppi said: "Stem cells are well known to have anti-inflammatory effects, but this is the first time we have shown that amniotic fluid stem cells can repair damage in the intestines.
"Although amniotic fluid stem cells have a more limited capacity to develop into different cell types than those from the embryo, they nevertheless show promise for many parts of the body including the liver, muscle and nervous system."
Far more testing would be required to work out if the treatment would work in babies and if it would be safe.
The stem cells would have to be taken from a donor as it would not be practical to store fluid from every birth, just in case. This means there is the risk of rejection.
As the stem cells are capable of becoming other types of cells there is also concern that they may pose a cancer risk.
However, in the future doctors hope they could harness a drug instead.
"It's not the cells, they're delivering something and if we knew what that was then we could deliver that directly," said Dr Eaton.


The six Philpott children who died in a house fire started by their parents slept through the sound of smoke alarms, according to the fire service.

The children died in May 2012 in a fire started by their parents, Mairead and Mick Philpott, and friend Paul Mosley.
The alarms at 18 Victory Road in Derby did activate, Derbyshire Fire and Rescue Service said.
Officers have carried out research into children and fire alarms and concluded many do sleep through the noise.
Dave Coss, watch manager with Derbyshire Fire and Rescue, conducted the research along with the University of Strathclyde, following the Philpott blaze.
He said the Philpott case had had a "massive impact" on him.
Jade Philpott, 10, and brothers John, nine, Jack, seven, Jesse, six, and Jayden, five, died on the morning of the fire and Duwayne, 13, died three days later in hospital.
Mick Philpott was jailed for life for manslaughter in April, while his wife and Mosley were both jailed for 17 years.
"I couldn't understand why none of the children had woken up," Mr Coss said. "The forensic engineer was adamant the smoke alarms were working."
Mr Coss, who is doing a masters degree at the university, worked in collaboration with Professor Niamh Nic Daeid on the study.
They conducted 204 tests involving the activation of smoke alarms. The tests were undertaken on 34 children, aged between two and 13, in the children's own homes.
"The parents activated the smoke alarms continuously for one minute after the children had gone to bed and then recorded the time taken for each child to wake," said Mr Coss.
"The children were given no prior warning of any tests and each child was tested six times."
The research found:
Mr Coss said there were a few different theories as to why children did not wake, which were in the process of being tested.
"The research identified children under the age of 13 appear to be unable to wake when a smoke alarm activates," he said.
The service recommended people install smoke alarms in children's rooms and consider installing sprinklers.
Professor Daeid said 'While the results of this study remain preliminary given the number of children involved, they do highlight significant concerns that cannot be ignored."


AFC Fylde have signed striker Jack Muldoon from National League champions Lincoln City on a one-year contract.

Muldoon, 28, made 66 appearances and scored 12 goals for the Imps over the past two years at Sincil Bank.
After helping his former club secure promotion to the Football League last season, he turned down the offer of a new contract.
Meanwhile, striker Danny Rowe has signed a new two-year contract at the club with the option of a further year.
The 28-year-old scored 50 goals in all competitions last season as Fylde won the National League North title by six points.