In continental Europe the UK has often been cast as the spoiler, the renegade, the outsider - the island nation incapable of understanding the European idea.

History, it is often said, has taught the UK different lessons.
In his Bloomberg speech in January 2013, David Cameron said: "We have the character of an island nation: independent, forthright, passionate in defence of our sovereignty. We can no more change this British sensibility than we can drain the English Channel."
In recent years any outbreak of British exceptionalism would spark a torrent of angry headlines in other parts of Europe.
In December 2011, when David Cameron used his veto to try to block the fiscal pact, there were lots of references in the French press to "perfide Albion".
One paper declared at the time that "an ambiguity has been removed". It went on to say that the British have only ever been interested in the single market and the rest of the European project leaves them profoundly indifferent.
Now, with a referendum pending, the headlines are much more cautious. The emphasis is less on what sets the UK apart and more on what binds Europe together.
The mood in much of Europe is defensive. Only a few weeks ago French Prime Minister Manuel Valls warned: "Europe could lose its historical footing and the project could die quickly."
A new survey shows many British concerns resonate in other parts of Europe.
The survey was carried out by the University of Edinburgh and the German think tank d/part, and funded by the UK in a Changing Europe - an initiative to bridge the gap between the EU and British voters. They spoke to 8,000 people in six European countries - Germany, France, Ireland, Poland, Sweden and Spain.
There was broad support for the UK remaining in the EU. In Spain, the figure was as high as 81%. The most lukewarm country was France with 56% support.
Interestingly, many of those interviewed wanted to hold their own referendums. The appetite was strongest in France at 53%. More surprisingly nearly half of those polled in Sweden, Germany and Spain also wanted a vote.
If that were to happen a sizeable majority in each of the six countries would vote to stay in the EU but a significant number (33% in France, 37% in Sweden and 27% in Germany) would opt to leave.
On the British agenda, very small numbers actively oppose "ever closer union", but a majority of people in Poland, Spain and Ireland agree that national parliaments should play a stronger role in the EU.
A clear majority in Ireland and France are in favour of reducing access to welfare for EU migrants. There was general agreement across all six countries with the proposition that people should have to work for some time in a new country before receiving benefits.
And if the UK voted to leave the EU then nearly half of Germans surveyed would be in favour of the UK staying in the trading bloc with access to the single market. Only a quarter of the French agreed with that.
However, there was little inclination to grant the UK special privileges. Changes should apply to all member states.
In every country apart from France the idea of restricting freedom of movement was opposed.
What this survey indicates is that although the UK often frustrates there is a reservoir of doubt and scepticism across many other countries and that is why most papers and politicians in Europe are eyeing the referendum on 23 June with anxiety.
There is another factor at play: fear.
The President of the European Commission Jean-Claude Juncker has warned that a British exit could begin the unravelling of the EU.
Only this week, Italian Finance Minister Pier Carlo Padoan said he feared the domino effect had already started with anti-European Union parties gaining support.
The UK may be different but some of the issues it raises have strong echoes in other parts of Europe.


The US space agency has successfully put a new probe in orbit around Jupiter.

The Juno satellite, which left Earth five years ago, had to fire a rocket engine to slow its approach to the planet and get caught by its gravity.
A sequence of tones transmitted from the spacecraft confirmed the braking manoeuvre had gone as planned.
Receipt of the radio messages prompted wild cheering at Nasa's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, California.
"All stations on Juno co-ord, we have the tone for burn cut-off on Delta V," Juno Mission Control had announced. "Roger Juno, welcome to Jupiter."
Scientists plan to use the spacecraft to sense the planet's deep interior. They think the structure and the chemistry of its insides hold clues to how this giant world formed some four-and-a-half-billion years ago.
Engineers had warned in advance that the engine firing was fraught with danger.
No previous spacecraft has dared pass so close to Jupiter; its intense radiation belts can destroy unprotected electronics.
One calculation even suggested the orbit insertion would have subjected Juno to a dose equivalent to a million dental X-rays.
But the probe is built like a tank with titanium shielding, and the 35-minute rocket burn appeared to go off without a hitch.
"Nasa did it again," said an elated Scott Bolton, Juno's principal investigator. "That says it all to me. And I'm so happy to be part of the team that did that. I mean this team has worked so hard and we have such great people. And it's almost like a dream coming true right here."
While the radiation dangers have not gone away, the probe should now be able to prepare its instruments to start sensing what lies beneath Jupiter's opaque clouds.
Tuesday's orbit insertion has put Juno in a large ellipse around the planet that takes just over 53 days to complete.
A second burn of the rocket engine in mid-October will tighten this orbit to just 14 days. It is then that the science can really start.
This will involve repeat passes just a few thousand kilometres above the cloudtops.
At each close approach, Juno will use its eight remote sensing instruments - plus its camera - to peer down through the gas planet's many layers, to measure their composition, temperature, motion and other properties.
A priority will be to determine the abundance of oxygen at Jupiter. This will be bound up in its water.
"How much water Jupiter has tells us a lot about where the planet formed early in the Solar System," explained team-member Candy Hansen.
"We think that Jupiter may not have formed where it is today, and if it formed further away or closer in - that tells us a lot about how the Solar System in general formed. Because when we look at planets around other stars we see quite a menagerie of possibilities."
The probe will also try to settle old arguments over whether the planet hosts a solid core or whether its gases go all the way down to the centre in an ever more compressed state.
And it will look for the deep swirling sea of liquid metallic hydrogen that theory suggests is the driver behind Jupiter's immense magnetic field and its spectacular auroras.
Scott Bolton said he wanted particularly to understand more about the Great Red Spot - a long-lived, giant storm.
"I love that Great Red Spot. We see it evolving, and it's been getting smaller ever since I first got amazed by it, which was when I was a child," he told reporters.
"The fact that it's lasted so long - there are records of it going back hundreds of years - means that it must have fairly deep roots.
"It looks a little like a hurricane on the Earth but we know it can't be working exactly like that because hurricanes on the Earth need an ocean underneath and feed off the liquid and then change when they go on land. At Jupiter, it's all gas."
Nasa plans to run Juno through to February 2018, assuming any radiation damage has not made it inoperable by then. The performance of the camera, for example, is expected to degrade rapidly within a few months.
In line with the practice on many previous planetary missions, the probe will be commanded to end its days by ditching into the atmosphere of Jupiter.
This ensures there is no possibility of Juno crashing into and contaminating the gas giant's large moons, at least one of which, Europa, is considered to have the potential to host microbial life.
Relive the drama of Juno's orbit insertion in a  BBC Sky At Night special this coming Sunday, 10 July, at 20:30 BST, on BBC Four.
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A communication error led to a man being hit by a tram and killed, an investigation has found.

The 52-year-old, who had high levels of alcohol in his system, was struck near a stop in Nottingham on 15 August.
He had walked along an off-limits section of track before lying down and being hit by a tram at 30mph.
The investigation found drivers were initially warned to slow down to avoid him but the advice was withdrawn when he was believed to have left the area.
A Rail Accident Investigation Branch (RAIB) report said the man, who has not been named, was returning from Nottingham city centre when he got off a tram at David Lane shortly before 23:00.
He bypassed guard rails designed to stop pedestrians before walking along the track towards Basford.
Operators in the Nottingham Express Transit (NET) control room began warning tram drivers arriving at and leaving the stop to slow down and employ caution to avoid hitting the man.
However, this came to an end when a control room staff member misheard a message and believed the man had safely made it to Basford station.
Instead he was lying on the track and was hit by a tram approaching David Lane.
The report said: "The audio reception of the call was poor and the basic principles of safety critical communication were not followed during the call.
"Furthermore, there was no effective exchange of information between the supervisors and the misunderstanding was not detected and challenged by others in the control room."
The RAIB said it had recommended improvements to control room communication procedures and the operators of the NET system had already started putting changes in place.


The UK's first official astronaut, Major Tim Peake, has been answering your questions about all things space.

15 March 2014 Last updated at 10:14 GMT
Tim is going to spend six months on board the International Space Station next year carrying out scientific experiments.
He's currently in a training camp in Russia, but Nel managed to touch base with him and put some of the questions you sent in to Tim.
Check out what he had to say...
Footage courtesy of Nasa and Esa


A 97-year-old World War Two veteran has had service medals stolen in a burglary while he was in hospital.

William Fearn, from Hodge Hill, Birmingham, served in North Africa in 1940 before being deployed to Malta for two years.
He was decorated with the Africa Star, the Defence Medal, the 1939-1945 Star and the 1945 War Medal.
Police said the medals, taken between Thursday and Tuesday, were "worth a few pounds" to anyone trying to sell them.
But they were "priceless" to Mr Fearn and his family, the West Midlands force said.
PC Lee Parry said the thieves may have stolen the medals "thinking they were of high value".
Officers were checking CCTV and speaking to residents, local stores and second hand dealers.


Luke Fletcher equalled his career-best of 92 and took a wicket in Durham's second innings as Notts seized control on day two at the Riverside.

Fletcher, in at number six as a nightwatchman, helped his side from their overnight 96-4 to 305 all out.
He was run out just short of a maiden first-class century, slipping after been sent back by James Pattinson (59).
Durham reached 162-5 at the close, leading by 19 runs, but with opener Keaton Jennings unbeaten on 62.
Much will depend on England Test batsman Jennings if the hosts, who began the season on minus 48 points because of last season's financial issues, are to start 2017 with a positive result.
The match was turned in Notts' favour by an eighth-wicket partnership of 108 between Fletcher and Australia pace bowler Pattinson, who made a career-best 89 not out in the win at Leicestershire in their first match of the season.
Jake Ball (2-46) made early inroads with the ball before Pattinson (2-24) broke a fourth-wicket stand of 71 between Jennings and Paul Collingwood (40) when the latter edged to Riki Wessels, who took a stunning high catch at first slip.


Until today, we thought Drake's Views was the best-selling album of 2016, but new music industry figures suggest otherwise.

According to the IFPI's annual report, both Beyonce's Lemonade and Adele's 25 shifted more copies worldwide.
Beyonce topped the chart with 2.4 million sales, while Drake came third, having sold 2.1 million units.
The figures only include CDs, vinyl and downloads - which may explain Drake's sudden change in fortunes.
Once streaming is counted, he emerges as the most popular artist of 2016; with his inescapable single One Dance the year's most popular song.
The explosion in streaming services also helped the music industry grow in value for the second year in a row, with revenue up by 5.9% to $15.7bn (Â£12.35bn).
That's the fastest rate of growth since the IFPI began tracking the market in 1997; and comes after 15 years of downturn, during which time the music industry lost nearly 40% of its revenue.
"We are no longer running up a down escalator," observed Warner Music CEO Stu Bergen.
Subscription streaming services are largely responsible for the turnaround. Revenue from Spotify, Apple Music and their competitors rose by 60% last year.
By contrast, earnings from CDs and vinyl fell by 7.6%; while the value of downloads - once seen as the saviour of the industry - plummeted by 20.5%.
The International Federation of the Phonographic Industry (IFPI) launched their annual report at a low-key reception in London on Tuesday morning, soundtracked by a lounge pianist covering John Legend's All of Me and Coldplay's Trouble.
All three of the major record labels - Universal, Sony and Warner Music - attended the event; giving their perspective on the figures.
Here are some of the other headlines and revelations from the launch.
By the end of 2016, the number of people subscribing to a subscription service reached 97 million worldwide. With many of the users choosing a "family plan", where several members of the same household have access to the full catalogue of music, the IFPI estimates that 112 million people use a service like Deezer, Spotify, Tidal or Apple Music.
However, the industry is wary of being complacent. "To raise the mission accomplished banner would be the worst mistake we could make," said Universal Music's Michael Nash.
"We've got to continue to convince consumers that [music] is still worth paying for, if we're ultimately going to achieve sustainable growth," added Dennis Kooker, president of digital services at Sony.
Streaming might dominate the market in the UK and US - but three of the world's six biggest music markets, Germany, France and Japan, still prefer CDs.
"In this environment, breaking an artist and building a global fanbase isn't easy," noted Warner Music's Stu Bergen. "If you're going to be successful, you can't focus on a single format. It takes time, money and people."
For the last 15 years, the music industry has been in a constant state of panic - Napster gutted the music market, then downloads began to overtake CD sales, before themselves being replaced by streaming.
"The music industry has received a significant amount of what I would call 'reality therapy'," said Michael Nash, head of digital strategy for Universal. "That's where you wake up and you realise, 'my old business has gone, I've got to get into a new business.'"
However, her added, "very few sectors of the economy have ever recovered from a 40% decline in revenue."
They hope to build on that turnaround by embracing change, and seeking "new business models to cannibalise old business models".
Speaking of which...
"One of the really exciting changes is around voice activation on smart speakers like Amazon Echo," said Mr Nash.
"You find that when you interact directly with your music service, and you have the ability to ask for any song, at any point at time, it alters how you engage with music and how you think about your music preferences.
"It'll be interesting to see how music changes from being a smartphone-driven experience, to a more communal experience in the home - where you have multiple family members requesting songs, or taking turns being DJ".
The prospect of integrating voice-activated music services into cars was also "hugely exciting" he said.
YouTube said it paid the music industry $1bn (Â£794m) in royalties last year - but record companies claim it's not enough.
They reckon Spotify's 50 million subscribers each contributed $20 per year to the industry's bank accounts. YouTube, which has more than a billion users, allegedly paid less than a dollar per person.
"We need to fix that," said IFPI chief Frances Moore. "It's a massive mismatch".
The industry has long complained that YouTube and other similar services are slow to police illegal and pirated material uploaded by their users (a claim which YouTube disputes).
Moore is hopeful that draft legislation put before the European Commission last year will reform the laws that allow streaming sites to avoid prosecution if they host copyrighted material without permission.
Even Ed Sheeran can't be everywhere all the time, so his Japanese record label had to get inventive when it came to promoting his new album.
While the star performed at the Grammys and the Brits for fans in the West, Japanese audiences were treated to videos of "celebrity cats dancing to Shape of You".
Both approaches seem to have worked - with the album shifting in huge numbers around the world.
Interestingly, despite the music industry's beef with YouTube, every track on Sheeran's album, Divide, was uploaded to the video service on the day of release. Stu Bergen said it was a sign of "acceptance that the music will be there whether we put it up or not", but vowed to continue the fight for fair royalties.
Last year, R&B star Frank Ocean dramatically ended his four-year sabbatical with two back-to-back releases: Endless, a video stream released as the final album under his contract with Universal music; and the 17-track opus Blond, released as an Apple exclusive a day later on Ocean's own label, Boys Don't Cry, without Universal's involvement or knowledge.
Universal chairman Lucian Grainge swiftly emailed the heads of his record labels, outlawing streaming exclusives. Although it's difficult to establish whether the two events were linked, one thing is certain: Grainge had concluded that streaming exclusives were bad for fans, and bad for the business.
"There were a lot of things that went into our termination," said Michael Nash, the label's head of digital strategy. "We had passed a point in time where it made sense to... work on a level of exclusivity with individual platforms.
"Our general position is that our artists and our labels want to have the broadest possible audience for our music."
Dennis Kooker, president of digital at Sony Music, said exclusives would still be considered for future releases, but it was a "balancing act"; while Universal stressed that they'd generally avoided giving exclusives to one service over another: "It's not something we engaged extensively in."
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Former New England Patriots player Aaron Hernandez has been found guilty of the first-degree murder of his friend, another American footballer.

Relatives of the victim wept in the Massachusetts courthouse as the verdict was announced on live television.
Hernandez was sentenced to life in prison without parole.
He was arrested in 2013 and charged with killing Odin Lloyd, a semi-pro player who was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee.
Lloyd's body was found with six bullet wounds less than a mile from Hernandez's home.
At the time, Hernandez had a contract worth $40m (Â£27m).
But within hours of his arrest, the Patriots sacked Hernandez, considered one of the top tight ends playing the game.
Hernandez is not an isolated case.
NFL players have been charged with any number of crimes over the years, from rape to dog-fighting.
Active NFL players are aged, in the main, between 21 and 34 and the arrest rate for that demographic is one in eight.
The arrest rate for people of Hernandez's age - he was 23 - is a startling one in six.
Does the NFL have a crime problem?
During closing arguments, his defence team acknowledged that he was present during the murder but said others committed the crime.
Prosecutors say Hernandez planned the "orchestrated execution" because of an incident in a night club, and then helped to cover it up.
The 25-year-old was found guilty of murder and other weapons charges on the seventh day of jury deliberations.
In a tearful statement to the court, Lloyd's mother Ursula Ward called him the "backbone of the family".


Running in looping coils, razor-wire now stretches along part of Macedonia's border with Greece.

At every border along the refugee trail, through Macedonia, Serbia, Croatia, Slovenia, Austria, Germany, Denmark and Sweden, the welcome is cooling, the checks are getting tougher, and people are being turned back.
Here at Idomeni there is just one small gate, right by the railway line, where refugees can pass.
A Macedonian policeman, with a magnifying glass in hand, stands by it, scrutinising the documents of every single person attempting to cross.
The refugees wait in line for their turn.
"You, you can pass," the policeman says to a family with small children. They shuffle through.
"You. No," says the policeman to a young Middle Eastern man. He turns back.
Young men in particular are facing more scrutiny. Those fleeing conflicts in Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq are supposed to be allowed through. Everyone else is being stopped.
Just a couple of seconds are spent peering at each set of papers.
"You. No valid documents," says the policeman to an old lady in a headscarf. "This is fake," he adds, holding her identity card.
It says she's Syrian. She speaks no English and looks confused.
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Macedonian soldiers lean against a vehicle watching, guns slung from their shoulders. A UN refugee agency staff member standing nearby does not intervene.
Many who are not from Syria, Afghanistan and Iraq are now trying to get through with forged papers. Sifting the genuine refugees from impostors isn't easy.
One group showed their Syrian passports, but their identity papers obtained in a Greek refugee camp did not have the proper stamps. Among them was a man, limping, his leg set in a metal brace.
"You have to go to Athens, get papers there," a Greek policeman told him. Athens is 500km (310 miles) to the south.
But those denied passage are not deterred easily. In the woods near the border we found dozens of migrants, camping out.
They were outside in freezing temperatures, hiding from the police, preparing to skirt the official crossing, to enter Macedonia illegally.
There were Libyans, Iranians and Moroccans, along with Indians, Somalis, even a refugee from Western Sahara who had crossed North Africa hanging on to the underside of a truck.
They were all wrapped in blankets to protect themselves from the cold. One man, singing a lament, was from Afghanistan.
But he was darker-skinned than most Afghans, so the Macedonian border guards had refused to believe his papers and turned him back too.
Among a group of Pakistanis warming their hands by a fire we found Sami from Lahore. He'd worked as a chef in a restaurant. But, he said, his boss rarely paid him, so he had left his wife and three-year old son behind to make this journey.
"It's very hard," Sami told me. "It's cold. I have no food, no drink, no money in my pocket, all finished."
He has spent $4,000 (Â£2,770; â‚¬3,700) and 15 days in jail in Turkey to get this far. So, he says, he can't give up now.
Twice already Macedonian police have detained Sami and sent him back to Greece, all the way to Athens. Such push-backs are illegal. And they do little to deter the migrants.
Sami insists he'll keep trying. "I don't care about my life. But I want a better life for my son," he says.
A short distance away, at the official border crossing, huge, heated tents put up by aid agencies stand empty. There are cooking facilities to provide hot food, and showers with hot, running water.
But there are no migrants here.
"At the moment they don't have the possibility of using these facilities," says a frustrated Andre Moret from Medecins Sans Frontieres, which has spent millions building this camp.
"For us as humanitarians this is unacceptable, clearly unacceptable."
Greek police are keeping all migrants away from the camp, perhaps to prevent it becoming permanent, or maybe concerned to keep the nearby railway line from being blocked.
Late last year, migrants angered when they could not cross to Macedonia halted all railway traffic. The line carries large amounts of valuable freight every day.
So the migrants, who are cold, hungry and some in need of medical help, are left to fend for themselves.
"We can't manage to have this camp re-opened by the authorities, we don't know why," says Andre. "For us it's difficult to understand and accept."
Just after nightfall we returned to the woods. Sami and the Pakistanis had already set off to cross the border illegally.
And in every abandoned building we found others waiting to follow: Egyptians, more Afghans, and Algerians.
Wahid and his friends from Algeria were waiting for a smuggler to help them sneak into Macedonia.
"It's just a question of wait and try, wait and try, wait and try," he says. "Never get down, take every chance you have. You have to change something in your life."
So this is becoming Europe's new problem. Along with those fleeing conflict many more are also seizing this moment, attempting to reach richer countries to the north.
Smuggling is on the rise again.
Greece keeps no exact figures of how many are turned back at its northern border, or who then trying to cross illegally.
It has no real policy to deal with the problem, and little capacity to stop such determined people. But growing numbers are seeking to pass. And this is winter.
When the weather warms, yet more may try.


Nick Gubbins' century helped Middlesex beat Hampshire in a rain-affected One-Day Cup game in Southampton.

Gubbins made 114 from 117 deliveries, but no other batsman was able to reach 50 as Middlesex were all out for 295.
Toby Roland-Jones (4-10) took the first four Hampshire wickets as they slumped to 34-4 in reply.
The hosts reached 146-7 in the 31st over when rain stopped play, leaving them 89 runs short on the Duckworth-Lewis method.
Middlesex's victory was their first in their opening three games of this year's competition, though they will have concerns over an apparent hamstring injury suffered by batsman Sam Robson.
Robson retired hurt on 12 before returning to bat after the ninth wicket fell, but was caught out off the bowling of Reece Topley on his first delivery back at the crease.
Hampshire have now lost two of their first three games.
Hampshire director of cricket Giles White told BBC Radio Solent:
"Gubbins was exceptional and struck the ball very well. But maybe we weren't our best with the ball early on.
"Then we got back into the game through the spinners, who have been good throughout the tournament.
"The score was gettable but Ronald-Jones bowled well. He hit good lengths and made it hard to score."
Middlesex bowler Toby Roland-Jones told BBC Radio London:
"It is always nice to get wickets up top and a few went my way. I felt good running in and found a nice bit of rhythm.
"The lads set it up well. Gubbo played a classy innings up top. He seemed to time it really nicely. He set us up for a score.
"Winning was the only thing missing from our one-day cricket. We had played well in patches but hadn't managed to get over the line whether through the weather or losing key battles."


Changes to the staging of America's Cup World Series events in Portsmouth are to be introduced, following criticism of last year's event.

A city council report said the yacht racing in July 2015 boosted visitor numbers and raised the city's profile.
However, it highlighted confusion among spectators about ticketing and criticised steel fencing at the site.
Among changes planned for this year's event is scrapping of evening entertainment.
The four-day weekend event in July 2015, run by TeamOrigin Events, marked the opening stage of the sailing series as Sir Ben Ainslie Racing (BAR) began Britain's bid to win the 35th America's Cup.
While the Saturday events attracted about 100,000 spectators, racing was cancelled and the public viewing areas evacuated due to bad weather on Sunday.
The Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were among those disappointed as racing was abandoned and there was criticism on social media over spectator provision.
On the Friday, ticket holders to a cancelled South Coast proms concert were offered a refund plus free entry to Saturday's pop concert, angering people who had paid up to Â£48 for tickets for Saturday's show.
The council report said the event was a success, on the whole, and generated Â£9m of economic benefit.
It said "operational issues" had been addressed ahead of the next event planned for 21-24 July.
Changes include shortening the on-shore events to three days, from 11:00 to 18:00, after a "community/preview" day on 21 July, and no evening events planned.
There will be no perimeter barriers around Southsea Common and a large open area on the common with direct views of the sea is planned to allow viewing of the racing.
It said the offer would "support the average demographic" of 40-61 years.


A Chihuahua dumped at a church in Hertfordshire in a Santa sack has been reunited with his owner four months after he went missing.

The dog, called Eragon, was found by children attending a service at St Mary's Church, Hitchin, on Tuesday.
He was accompanied by a note asking, "please find me a lovely new home".
The RSPCA scanned his microchip and found he belonged to Samantha Jones from Bowditch in south London. She had lost the dog during a walk in August.
The reunion was "a lovely surprise", said Ms Jones, adding: "I thought I would never see him again.
"I was especially shocked to find he was in Hertfordshire - quite a way from my London home."
The three-year-old animal was discovered tied up in a Santa sack with food, treats, a jumper and a Christmas card.
The note said: "My lady is going into a home. I need food cut small. Please find me a lovely new home. So sorry."
The RSPCA believes Eragon was found by someone who took him on without thinking to check his microchip and then found they could not cope.
RSPCA inspector Stephen Reeves said: "Eragon had clearly been cared for, as the treats, jumper and card show, but it it could have ended quite badly to leave a little dog like that out with no care in the temperatures we've been seeing recently.
"It was certainly one of the more unusual and most festive rescues I have ever been called out to."


Three-quarters of the world's coral reefs are at risk due to overfishing, pollution, climate change and other factors, says a major new assessment.

Reefs at Risk Revisited collates the work of hundreds of scientists and took three years to compile.
The biggest threat is exploitative fishing, the researchers say, though most reefs will be feeling the impact of climate change within 20 years.
But, they say, there are measures that can be taken to protect at least some.
The report is compiled by a group of more than 20 research and conservation organisations, led by the World Resources Institute (WRI) in Washington DC.
"This report serves as a wake-up call for policymakers, business leaders, ocean managers, and others about the urgent need for greater protection for coral reefs," said Jane Lubchenco, head of the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (Noaa).
"Local and global threats, including climate change, are already having significant impacts on coral reefs, putting the future of these beautiful and valuable ecosystems at risk."
The report revisits some of the territory explored in the original Reefs at Risk project, published in 1998, but in much greater detail.
Over the 13 years intervening, the area at risk of destruction has increased by nearly a third.
The main reason for that change has been a massive increase in damage from exploitative fishing, particularly in the Indian and Pacific Oceans.
Altogether, more than half of the world's reefs are threatened by the ways in which fishermen use them.
These range from simply catching more than nature can replace to the use of extremely damaging fishing methods such as dynamiting fish to stun or kill them - which also blasts coral formations to smithereens.
Other major threats are pollution carried in rivers, coastal development, and climate change.
If climate projections turn into reality, then by 2030 roughly half of the world's reefs will experience bleaching in most years - rising to 95% during the 2050s.
Coral polyps - the tiny reef-building creatures - live in partnership with algae that provide nutrition and give corals their colour.
When the water gets too hot, the algae are expelled and the coral turns white.
Although reefs can recover, the more often it happens, the more likely they are simply to die.
In addition, the slow decrease in the pH of seawater as it absorbs more carbon dioxide - usually known as ocean acidification - will compromise coral's capacity to form the hard structures it needs.
"Reefs are already being hit by global warming," said Mark Spalding, senior marine scientist with The Nature Conservancy.
"They are the canaries in the coal mine, super-sensitive to warm summer temperatures, such that even a small background induces bleaching.
"Into the future, I suspect warming and acidification will become the major threats, but as we say again and again, no threats act in isolation; often it's the combination that really hurts," he told BBC News.
Regionally, southeast Asia is the worst affected region, with 95% of reefs on the threatened list.
But in terms of the impact on human society, threat is only part of the equation.
Acid oceans and marine life
The researchers reasoned that societies most affected by reef degradation would be those where the threats are high, where a big proportion of the population depends on reefs for their livelihood, and where people's capacity to adapt is low.
Combining these criteria, the countries highest on the risk register are Comoros, Fiji, Haiti, Indonesia, Kiribati, Philippines, Tanzania and Vanuatu.
Against this bleak backdrop, the researchers have been at pains to emphasise that there are things that can be done to reduce the damage.
"There are reasons for hope," said Lauretta Burke, senior associate at WRI and a lead author of the report.
"Reefs are resilient; and by reducing the local pressures, we can help buy time to find solutions to global threats that can preserve reefs for future generations."
Research has shown for example that allowing a diversity of life to flourish on a reef keeps it healthy and more resistant to rising water temperatures.
Protecting important regions of sea would be one obvious strategy.
However, having evaluated more than 2,500 protected areas of reef, these researchers concluded that even though over a quarter of the world's coral is nominally protected, only one-sixth of those areas offer good protection.
"The report is full of solutions - real world examples where people have succeeded to turn things around," said Dr Spalding.
"However, if we don't learn from these successes then I think that in 50 years' time, most reefs will be gone - just banks of eroding limestone, overgrown with algae and grazed by a small variety of small fish."


An 18-month-old girl who was the sole survivor of a crash which killed her mother and three relatives is improving in hospital, police have said.

The girl, named locally as Holly Hughes, is now in a stable condition after the crash involving a tanker and a van on the A44 in Powys on Tuesday.
Her mother mother Alison Hind, 28, died in the crash.
Ms Hind's uncle Martin Pugh, 47, and his partner's parents Margaret, 65, and John Kehoe, 72, were also killed.
Holly was flown to the University Hospital of Wales in Cardiff after the collision around 15 miles (24km) from Aberystwyth, near Eisteddfa Gurig, between the villages of Llangurig in Powys and Ponterwyd in Ceredigion.
The family's Ford Focus was travelling east on the A44, the transit van was driving behind it and the tanker was going in the opposite direction.
Local councillor Gareth Morgan described the incident as a "great tragedy" for the community.
He said the road was known to be one of the most dangerous in Wales and said the crash called for a major assessment of its dangers.
A Welsh government spokesperson said it was committed to doing all it could to make Wales' roads as safe as possible.


A popular Tokyo noodle shop has vaulted into the world's top ranks of restaurants by becoming the first ramen eatery to receive a Michelin star.

The food bible's latest edition of its Tokyo guide gave the rating to Tsuta, a tiny nine-seat restaurant in the north of the city.
Ramen is an ubiquitous dish in Japan which has its roots in Chinese noodles.
It is widely seen as a type of fast food, although more shops have been offering gourmet options.
The Tokyo Michelin Guide also lists 27 other ramen shops, but they are under its Bib Gourmand section which is below its three-star system and emphasises cheaper restaurants.
Tsuta -which sells bowls for $7-$9.75 (Â£4.50-Â£6.50)- is known in Tokyo for its fusion ramen and has been called "the finest ramen in northern Tokyo" by The Japan Times.
The Michelin guide recommends Tsuta's ramen flavoured with red wine and rosemary barbecued pork, as well as its ramen with a "memorable porcini mushroom fragrance".
One of Tsuta's cooks, Takatoshi Itami, told AFP news agency: "The most important thing is that customers like our ramen. We have good reviews thanks to them - getting a star was not our priority."


Gloucestershire Airport has asked two councils for what appears to be a six-figure "bail out", the BBC has learned.

The airport at Staverton, between Gloucester and Cheltenham, is part-owned by Gloucester City Council and Cheltenham Borough Council.
Emergency meetings to discuss the loan are due to take place at both local authorities next week.
A council source told BBC Radio Gloucestershire the loan could be as much as £750,000.
The airport first opened in the 1930s and now handles about 80,000 flights a year.
It is home to more than 180 aircraft and 50 staff, and supports more than 40 on-site businesses which provide 1,000 jobs.
In a statement, Gloucestershire Airport said it is "considering a number of options to help deliver its business plan".
It continued: "One of these has been a request to its shareholders for a loan facility that will be used to help grow the business even further."
Gloucester City Council confirmed an emergency meeting has been arranged to deal with an "urgent treasury management issue".


Two new jails are to be built in south Wales and Yorkshire as part of a Â£1.3bn government pledge to create 10,000 modern prison places by 2020.

Sites in Port Talbot and Full Sutton, near York, have been earmarked, while two existing jails in Kent and Wigan will also be redeveloped.
Justice Secretary Liz Truss said modern jails would help cut reoffending.
But Peter Dawson, of the Prison Reform Trust, said "closing prisons, not opening them" was a better solution.
A final decision on the two new prisons depends on planning approval and "value for money", the government said.
The two jails being redeveloped - HMP and Young Offender Institution (YOI) in Rochester in Kent and HMP and YOI Hindley in Wigan - will both be shut while extensive rebuilding work takes place.
The construction programme will be offset by the closure of a number of older prisons, the details of which have yet to be confirmed.
In prisons in England and Wales, levels of violence, suicide and self-harm are up, staff numbers are down and complaints about overcrowding are widespread.
There have been a number of disturbances at jails in recent months and last year, thousands of staff walked out in protest over health and safety concerns.
Ms Truss has vowed to overhaul the system, improve the estate and recruit more officers.
"Outdated prisons, with dark corridors and cramped conditions, will not help offenders turn their back on crime - nor do they provide our professional and dedicated prison officers with the right tools or environment to do their job effectively," she said.
But Mr Dawson, who supports an overhaul of the prison system, criticised the plans, saying: "This massive investment in new prisons is not matched by a credible plan to reduce our reckless overuse of prison in the first place."
Shadow justice secretary Richard Burgon said: "Simply replacing one prison with another prison doesn't deal with the overcrowding crisis."
Last month the UK's newest prison, HMP Berwyn in north Wales, opened its doors to more than 2,000 inmates.
The Â£250m jail, Britain's biggest, contains a health and wellbeing centre, an education block, a sports hall and a multi-faith area.
Planning applications are under way to redevelop sites at the former HMP Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, and HMP and YOI Glen Parva, in Leicestershire.
Building work has begun on a new block at HMP Stocken in Rutland.
The proposed new-builds at Port Talbot and Full Sutton will create up to 2,000 construction and manufacturing jobs, the government said.
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Rudi Gutendorf has witnessed bribery, betrayal by his own players and the horrors of genocide during his coaching career, so it may surprise some that he still wants to add to his colourful CV.

Instead of enjoying the fruits of retirement after an incredible managerial career, which has seen him coach 18 national teams and six different clubs in the German top flight, the 86-year-old is desperate for another job.
And whatever Gutendorf lacks in youth - he led Duisburg to runners-up spot in the inaugural Bundesliga season in 1963-64 - he more than makes up for in experience.
While Gutendorf accepts the possibility of being offered a role at home are slim, he has an unparalleled knowledge from coaching in every corner of the globe having been something of a footballing missionary - when he was funded by the German government and football association to take his expertise to the developing world.
And it's not just his experiences on the football field which mark out Gutendorf, but also the many challenges he has faced off the field - including when he was sent to Rwanda at the end of the 1990s.
The country was still recovering from a brutal civil war in which the government-led Hutu tribe carried out a fierce genocide against the Tutsis, killing up to a million people.
"The German government told me, 'Rudi, we don't care if you win 1-0, 2-0, the most important thing is the social aspect; that you try to get together the two tribes'," Gutendorf told the BBC's World Football programme.
"Such hate, you cannot believe. I was able to unite these two tribes to play football, and good football.
"After every training in the evening, we made a camp fire. We were sitting around and I made half Hutu, half Tutsi.
"I explained that revenge leads to nothing and to forgive each other. It was not easy because they saw how they killed each other.
"I said it makes no sense, you're now a footballer. I came here so we can work together, and that made a big impression."
A 2-2 World Cup qualifying draw in Kigali against an up and coming Ivory Coast team was the high point.
"The public in the stadium, they were still here are the Tutsis and there are the Hutus," said Gutendorf. "But when we played good football they forgot it and they hugged each other and they felt like a united nation. I'm very proud about that."
Earlier in his career, while coach of Chile, Gutendorf had installed a wall with holes in at the national stadium in Santiago, through which his players had to kick the ball from distance.
Such hate, you cannot believe. I was able to unite these two tribes to play football
But he had to leave in a hurry because of his association with the deposed socialist president, Salvatore Allende, after Augusto Pinochet's junta took over - meaning he was not able to lead Chile in the 1974 World Cup in his native West Germany.
Infamously, Pinochet decided to use Gutendorf's practice wall as the place against which hundreds of dissidents were shot.
While in Nepal, Gutendorf found himself on both sides of the bribery line. He turned down $500,000 from an oil-rich sheikh to lose 8-0 in the Asian Games.
But after a monsoon hit Nepal's match with India, with the score poised at 0-0 at half time, he bribed the referee with a bottle of whisky to play on.
He knew that Nepal had the right studs and India didn't. Nepal won 1-0.
Gutendorf says the two events in his life that have left him with "unhealed wounds" are his sacking as the Iran Olympic coach, just before they won the 1990 Asian Games, "because the religious leaders did not want an unbeliever on the bench" and his loss of the Hamburg dressing room after signing Kevin Keegan from Liverpool in 1977.
"Six weeks before I came to Hamburg, they won the European Cup Winners' Cup," he said.
"The captain came to my room and said 'We don't like this English guy. We won the Cup and we don't need him and we don't like him. If you put this little English guy in we don't like to work together with you'.
"I wanted to make a very big team like Bayern Munich and with Keegan it was possible.
"I'm sure today, otherwise I would not say it, that the players made sabotage against me. The first game of the season we lost 5-2 and I saw that my players didn't like to win."
Three months later, Gutendorf was sacked.
"My own players, they sacked me. That is the hardest thing that can happen to a coach," he added.
"I was so fed up. I went away as far as possible in the world. I became the national coach of Australia."
There, he again narrowly missed out on qualifying for the World Cup, something for which, Gutendorf says, his Australian wife still hasn't forgiven him.
That, as they say, is another story for another day but Gutendorf is keen to add one more chapter to a fascinating career.
"I am fit and healthy enough to take over a first division team as head coach," said Gutendorf. "But the club presidents here in Germany don't believe me.
"They say 86, that is too old. They are a little bit ashamed to give me a contract. It makes me sad but I can't change that."


(Close): Wall Street ended the week mixed as disappointing results from Google owner Alphabet and Microsoft weighed on the technology sector.

The tech-heavy Nasdaq index fell 39.66 points to 4906.23.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose 21.23 points to 18,003.75, while the S&P 500 gained just 0.1 points to 2091.58.
Alphabet shares were down 5.4% after the internet giant reported results on Thursday that missed expectations.
Microsoft also declined, falling 7.1%, after the company reported a 25% drop in quarterly profit to $3.8bn.
Oil prices ended the week up after producers said talks to limit production may be revived. Brent crude rose 1.3% to $45.12 a barrel and US crude climbed 1.2% to $43.70 a barrel.
Exxon shares rose 0.8% and Chevron was up 0.6%.
Southwest Energy shares were up 15% despite reporting a $32m loss after the closing bell on Thursday.


How we generate our electricity in Wales in future, and the role politicians in Cardiff Bay have to play in the process is one of the talking points at this election.

It's a complicated picture, with control over different aspects of the process of generating power and getting it to our homes split between the Welsh and UK governments.
One thing industry experts seem to agree on though is that energy policy will be a bigger issue for whoever's in power in the Senedd after polling day than it's ever been before.
So much so that one industry body, RenewableUK Cymru, is calling for an energy minister for Wales to be appointed.
Under plans drawn up in the draft Wales Bill, planning decisions on larger energy schemes are set to be devolved from Westminster to Cardiff.
Currently, the Welsh Government looks after developments up to 50 MW.  That will increase to 350 MW.
To give you a sense of scale, the largest onshore wind farm in England and Wales being built at Pen y Cymoedd - between Neath Port Talbot and Rhondda Cynon Taff - will have a generating capacity of 228 MW; the proposed tidal lagoon in Swansea Bay would be 320 MW.
A new nuclear power plant at Wylfa Newydd on Anglesey comes in at 2,700 MW, so planning consent for that would remain with the UK Government.
In reality then, and for the time being, it's larger renewables schemes that the next Welsh Government could have more control over.
Latest figures show Wales generated around 20% of its electricity from renewables in 2014.
The Liberal Democrats say they want to see renewable sources account for 100% of Wales's electricity needs by 2025, the Green Party by 2030 and Plaid Cymru by 2035.
David Clubb, of Renewable UK Cymru, said: "We'd like to see targets for renewable energy in Wales - not just for the targets themselves - but because renewables are a good way to get energy bills down in the long run, a good way to create employment across Wales."
He believes reaching such a target would be achievable with the right levels of political support, and would be one way of creating jobs across Wales.
"We know that Scotland has gone very, very far in that direction and almost certainly by 2020 they'll be generating the equivalent of all their electricity from renewable sources," he said.
But the bureaucracy involved in getting new schemes off the ground is a challenge, according to Keith Jones who runs several community energy projects in north Wales.
I met him at the foot of the Carneddau Mountains, where "four years of stress" have culminated in a new hydro energy project in the Anafon valley above Abergwyngregyn.
The electricity produced, enough to power 285 homes, is sold to the National Grid with the income used to support the local community.
"Ambition and implementation are two separate things in Wales," Mr Jones explained.
"Yes the Welsh Government is finally getting control over the management of sites, but the thing that distributes the energy - the grid infrastructure - and the support mechanism or subsidies are controlled through London."
"It's very, very complex - this small hydro alone was years in the making.  An awful lot of stuff needs to come together for us to deliver on the ambition and resources that Wales has."
Mairede Thomas, chair of the Anglesey branch of the Campaign for the Protection of Rural Wales said there were some quite clear distinctions around renewable energy emerging from the parties, especially in terms of the extent to which local people have a say in planning decisions.
Several large wind farm developments on the island as well as proposals to construct the UK's largest solar park here have proved controversial.
"Obviously large turbines have an impact on the landscape and that's very important on Anglesey because we have a very vibrant tourism economy - it's the island's biggest employer," she said.
"Local people know their area best and they know what's needed in terms of maintaining a sustainable industry in their locality.  While my heart says it would be lovely to have all our electricity produced from renewables - I think it's a little optimistic."
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Health, education and the economy may be dominating the election campaign so far.
But with new powers looming alongside statutory targets to cut carbon emissions 40% by 2020, it seems the next Welsh Government will also have to think long and hard about its energy policy too.


Sixty people are now thought to be dead or missing after a freight train carrying crude oil derailed and blew up in Quebec, Canadian police say.

Earlier, 50 people were unaccounted for after Saturday's blast in Lac-Megantic. There are 15 unidentified bodies.
Authorities have launched a criminal investigation into what happened, but they have ruled out terrorism.
The boss of the train's US owner is due later to visit the scene, a day after he admitted "partial responsibility".
At least 30 buildings were razed by the fireball from the explosion that rocked the town on Saturday morning.
But the entire town centre is being treated as a crime scene, with several additional streets cordoned off by police tape.
By David WillisBBC News, Lac-Megantic
It is difficult to sum up the sense of shock that has engulfed this close-knit community. Life in the town beside the lake is normally so very tranquil and polite. But in the early hours of Saturday morning the French-speaking residents of Lac-Megantic had their peace shattered - in  possibly the most violent and horrendous way imaginable.
The heart of the town has been destroyed. As tends to be the case in such circumstances, everyone knows somebody who was affected. One man I spoke to had lost five of his neighbours - as well as the home in which he grew up.
Oil trains have been rolling through this part of Canada for years - their cargo growing increasingly larger in accordance with heightened demand for crude. Some here saw this as a disaster waiting to happen. Now Lac-Megantic faces the long and painful task of rebuilding.
Quebec Police Inspector Michel Forget said that while investigators had ruled out terrorism as a motive for the attack, several other options - including criminal negligence - remained under consideration.
"This is an enormous task ahead of us," the police inspector said. "We're not at the stage of arrests."
Some 200 officers were still conducting searches on Wednesday morning.
But police said the effort was taking a toll on some crew members and two people had to be taken off the operation over worries for their physical condition.
"This is a very risky environment," said Quebec Provincial Police Sgt Benoit Richard.
"We have to secure the safety of those working there. We have some hotspots on the scene. There is some gas."
Authorities have asked the relatives of those still missing to provide DNA samples by bringing in toothbrushes, razors and other items.
But the authorities have also warned some of the bodies may have been burnt to ashes in the explosion.
The train, carrying 72 cars of crude oil, was parked shortly before midnight on Friday in the town of Nantes about seven miles (11km) away.
Local firefighters were later called to put out a fire on the train.
While tackling that blaze, they shut down a locomotive that an engineer had left running to keep the brakes engaged.
Shortly afterwards the train began moving downhill in an 18-minute journey, gathering speed until it derailed in Lac-Megantic and exploded.
The fire department and the train's owners have appeared to point the finger at one another over the disaster.
Rail World chief executive Edward Burkhardt suggested on Tuesday evening that firefighters shared some blame.
"We don't have total responsibility, but we have partial responsibility," he told reporters in Montreal.
Earlier this week he told the media he had received hate messages.
The train was carrying oil from the Bakken oil region in the US state of North Dakota to a refinery on the east coast of Canada.


Mark Warburton says captain Lee Wallace is among those in his Rangers squad ready to "step up" for Scotland but concedes international recognition may require promotion first.

Wallace, 28, won the last of his eight caps in late 2013.
And the left-back was left out of Gordon Strachan's squads for the games with Czech Republic and Denmark.
"Lee has been first class," said Warburton, whose side are top of the Scottish Championship.
"He's club captain and has been outstanding for us. Can he perform at international level? My opinion is very clear on that one.
"It's important that Lee knows what we think of him and his level of performance, so we always feedback to him.
"It's really important we respect Gordon's decision. He's the national manager and we absolutely respect him. All we can do is give our honest opinion.
"There is a healthy gap at the top of the Championship and that is down to the players and the level of consistency and quality they've shown throughout the season.
"So I have no doubt the likes of Lee Wallace and a number of others could make the step up.
"If it takes going up to the Premiership to do that, then so be it but I have no doubts about their ability."
Strachan announced separate squads for the match in Prague (24 March) and the visit of the Danes (29 March), with midfielder John McGinn - of Rangers' Championship rivals Hibernian - included for the latter match.
With Hibs also having players called up for international duty at age-grade levels, the Easter Road side's match against Dumbarton on 26 March has been postponed.
Rangers have players involved with the Scotland youth squads as well. However, the Ibrox side's home game against Queen of the South on the same day will go ahead.
"We were desperate to get the game on because a lot of the fans have booked flights, ferries and hotels and we're very aware of the expense involved," explained Warburton
"We run a very tight squad so it was a tight call for us. We'll be without certain players. A number of young players who have been on the bench will be away with the Under-17s and Under-19s.
"We're light on numbers but we'll deal with it."
Meanwhile, Warburton confirmed Maciej Gostomski, who joined Rangers on a six-month deal in January, has been released by the club.
The former Lech Poznan goalkeeper has been allowed to return to his native Poland to deal with a family-related "personal issue".


Brighton station was closed amid fears of dangerous overcrowding and claims commuters had fainted in the hot weather.

Signalling failures around Gatwick Airport, as well as a hole in the south-east London area caused delays and cancellations through the day.
Brighton Station was closed temporarily at 19:20 BST to allow crowd control measures to be put in place.
Southern said it had not received reports of passengers being taken ill.
Crowds formed at Brighton station on Tuesday evening, at the end of 2016's hottest day so far.
Passengers reported being stuck on trains in sweltering heat, while others said they were crammed onto station concourses.
Water bottles were being handed out at the station as some passengers claimed air conditioning on board some services between Brighton and the capital was not working.
Jo Edwards tweeted: "At Vict - no trains to Brighton, no advice/updates, poor lad has just fainted & being fanned by his dad, third world service".
Others were critical of operator Southern, which has recently been hit by widely-publicised services troubles and an ongoing industrial dispute.
Toby Robertson wrote:  "Get rid of these clowns. It's dangerous. Short form train, people fainting."
MP for Hove and Portslade Peter Kyle has said he will make the anger felt by those suffering a terrible evening at the station known to the government.
And Brighton MP Caroline Lucas tweeted: "So sorry & angry about chaos at #Brighton station & on trains - have raised serious safety concerns & seeking urgent meeting with Minister".
Southern, which said it ran three services between 20:20 and 20:40 to help ease congestion, said Network Rail were working to fix the points failure in the Gatwick area.
A spokeswoman said: "We've had no reports of any passengers being taken ill or fainting however social media would suggest otherwise and we will investigate this further.
"We do of course apologise to any customers that have experienced any issues with overheating on our services today."
It comes as commuters have experienced months of cancellations and delays on Southern trains due to an RMT dispute.
The train operator has axed 341 trains of its 2,242 weekday trains due to staff shortages.
New rail minister Paul Maynard will appear before the Commons Transport Select Committee on Wednesday to give evidence on the Department for Transport's role in the issue.


One person died and three others were taken to hospital after a boat capsized in Brixham harbour in south Devon.

Emergency services were called at 11:44 BST to reports a boat carrying a father, his teenage daughter and her two friends had capsized.
Torbay inshore and all-weather lifeboats were called and the four were taken to Torbay hospital.
The coastguard search and rescue teams from Berry Head and Torbay and the coastguard helicopter were also called.
Specialist divers are at the scene and are expected to remove the capsized boat from near the entrance to the harbour.
Mark Criddle, coxswain of Torbay's RNLI lifeboat, said the vessel was launched at 11:51 BST to reports of an overturned boat just outside Brixham harbour with four people in the water.
'We arrived on scene to find a 16ft speedboat upside down with a girl trapped in it," he said.
"We located the girl and brought her onboard the lifeboat where she was immediately given first aid by a doctor and paramedic who were members of the lifeboat crew."
He said the three other people who had been on the speedboat had been rescued by other craft in the area, including two jet skiers and a yacht.
'We took the girl back to shore where she was handed into the care of paramedics who took her to hospital. The three other people who had been aboard the overturned speedboat were also taken to hospital after being treated at the lifeboat station."


The Nigerian president is confident that the Islamist insurgents of Boko Haram are finally about to be decisively defeated.

In an interview with the BBC, President Goodluck Jonathan said Boko Haram will be routed in one month.
His bullish comments follow the news this week that Nigerian troops had finally driven Boko Haram militants from Bama in Borno State, north-east Nigeria.
Military spokesman Chris Olukolade said militants fled the city, which they had held since September last year, after days of ground skirmishes and aerial bombardments.
General Olukolade said troops would continue to pursue the militants towards Nigeria's porous border with Cameroon.
Bama lies along a critical road connecting Cameroon to Maiduguri, the embattled north-eastern Nigerian capital and epicentre of the Islamists' activities.
The troops' advance to recapture the town started early this month but was slowed, largely because Boko Haram militants had destroyed bridges linking it to other communities.
The military had to spend time constructing a make-shift passage to the town.
The victory over Bama came as part of a string of successes recorded by the Nigerian military in the last month, after struggling for years to contain the deadly jihadists.
Bama was one of the two most important towns held by Boko Haram.
The other is Gwoza, which is now the only big town under the control of the militants.
It is believed Boko Haram uses Gwoza as its headquarters.
It took the postponement of a general election earlier scheduled for the middle of February, for the Nigerian military to make progress.
The army says that it has recaptured 11 of 14 districts from Boko Haram.
But how did Nigeria turned the tide against Boko Haram in just four weeks?
Key has been collaboration with neighbouring countries, mainly Chad, Niger and Cameroon, who have provided troops to help tackle the insurgents.
In addition, President Jonathan told the BBC his military has acquired new weapons sufficient to defeat Boko Haram.
Nigeria has brought in extra equipment from the former Soviet Union and South Africa.
Initial incursions into the Nigerian territories were made by the multi-national force supported by the African Union, which had massed in Cameroon.
Led by Chad, they bombarded Boko Haram positions and killed more than 300 of them.
Nigerian troops then moved in on the ground.
The Nigerian government is eager to show progress in the fight against Boko Haram ahead of the general elections, the reason officials gave for postponing the polls in the first place.
It attracted scathing criticism after it failed to stop the jihadists, who had carried out bombings of towns, schools and company installations, killing over 20,000 people and displacing nearly two million others.
The government has not explained how it failed to protect the lives 59 school boys who were slaughtered in their sleep by Boko Haram in Buni Yadi, Yobe state.
Similarly, there has been no explanation for the failure to rescue more than 200 schoolgirls abducted from their school by Boko Haram militants in Chibok, Borno State nearly a year ago.
Campaigners with the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, keep agitating for their rescue, but they have largely been ignored.
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Last year, Nigerian defence officials were quoted as saying they had sighted the girls but would not want to use force to rescue them.
That has subsequently been denied, and the spirits of the parents, who expected a sort of miracle after President Jonathan assured them the girls would be found, remain dampened.
With elections imminent, the government appears to be racing against time to prove it has the capacity to deal with the intractable insecurity situation that has bedevilled the north-east, in order to get Nigerians to vote it back to power.
But Boko Haram's presence still looms large.
Last week, the group pledged allegiance to the Islamic State (IS) operating in Iraqi and Syria.
This seems to have introduced a new dimension to the anti-insurgency campaign.
Although the military say it is not fazed by this, many Nigerians are worried.
Late last month, four suicide bombs in Maiduguri killed about 60 people, adding to the tally of some 20,000 people the group has killed in the past six years.
The latest successes are expected to boost the chances of the ruling party holding on to power.
However, it faces a formidable challenge from the opposition, whose candidate is former military ruler Gen Muhammadu Buhari.
And many want to know why the government allowed the insecurity to fester until a few weeks to polling day before it could muster the strength to fight.
There are also searching questions about whether the success achieved in the last four months can be sustained.
With homes and livelihoods destroyed, displaced people are now primed to return to their devastated communities.
But they are keen to know what support will be available to help them piece their lives together again.
Some also fear they will be disenfranchised.
The electoral laws in Nigeria say voters can only vote where they registered.
This means that displaced people may not vote since they have been driven out of their towns and villages.
Many of them are currently in internally displaced person camps.
It is now the responsibility of the electoral commission to determine how this challenge is addressed and ensure that it does not affect the outcome of the general elections.


In Malaysia the "aspirational" low-income part of the population is helping to drive economic growth through consumption, according to the World Bank.

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Malaysia has successfully tackled poverty over the last four decades by drawing on its rich natural resources.
According to the World Bank, some 49% of Malaysians in 1970 were extremely poor, and that figure has been reduced to 1% today. However, the government's next challenge is to help the lower income group to move up to the middle class, the bank says.
Ulrich Zahau, the World Bank's Southeast Asia director, spoke to the BBC's Jennifer Pak.


Nearly a century after the Middle East's frontiers were established by British and French colonialists, the maps delineating the region's nation states are being overtaken by events.

Countries created to suit the imperial designs of London and Paris are being replaced by patches of territory carved out by jihadis, nationalists, rebels and warlords.
The border between Iraq and Syria is under the control of the so-called Islamic State; Syrian Kurds are experiencing the kind of autonomy their counterparts in Iraq have had for years; ethnic, tribal and religious leaders are running territories in Libya and Yemen.
As some of the nation states disintegrate, once powerful capital cities become ever more irrelevant. The rest of the world may have embassies in the Middle East but, increasingly, there are no effective ministries for them to interact with.
The governments in Baghdad, Damascus, Tobruk and Sanaa are now unable to assert their will across large parts of their countries.
"The states that exist in the region do not really have a monopoly on the use of force," LSE Professor Fawaz Gerges told Newshour Extra.
That means that some central governments are now relying on militants and non-state actors to defend them.
Even the most precious Middle Eastern resource of all - oil - is slipping out of government control.
The Iraqi Kurds have been creating a legal infrastructure for oil exports for nearly a decade, while rebel forces in Libya and the Islamic State group have both accrued revenues from the oil industry.
While non-state actors find it difficult to sell crude oil, smuggling refined gasoline products is far easier.
"There is a network which crosses religious and ideological borders where you have people buying and selling petroleum, diesel and gasoline products across the whole region," says oil industry consultant John Hamilton. "And it's very profitable."
There are many explanations for the winds of change sweeping through the Middle East.
Depending on their point of view, analysts cite the failure of Arab nationalism; a lack of democratic development; post-colonialism; Zionism; Western trade protectionism; corruption; low education standards; and the global revival of radical Islamism.
But perhaps the most powerful immediate force ripping Middle Eastern societies apart is sectarianism. Throughout the region Sunni and Shia Muslims are engaged in violent conflict.
The two regional superpowers, Saudi Arabia and Iran, both sponsor proxy forces to fight their battles for them.
In times past the global superpowers were able to keep the Middle Eastern nation states intact, but it's far from clear that either Washington or Moscow now have the power or the will to reunite countries such as Syria, Libya, Yemen and Iraq.
Looking further ahead, the question most Western diplomats are asking is not whether the old order can be rebuilt but whether still-intact countries such as Egypt, Jordan, Bahrain and even Saudi Arabia can hold the line.
Most of the nation states in the Middle East were created in the aftermath of the First World War. The Sykes-Picot agreement and arrangements made by the League of Nations established the borders that exist today.
The biggest change since then came with the creation of Israel in 1948.
Israel's borders remain a matter of impassioned debate. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new Deputy Foreign Minister, Tzipi Hotovely, recently told members of the Israeli diplomatic corps that they should tell the world that the West Bank belongs to the Jews.
Some Palestinians also dream of border change - however it comes.
"They see the chaos in Iraq and Syria and this hideous machine called IS [Islamic State] as potentially the only game-changer that might ultimately call all the borders into question in a way that might eventually benefit the Palestinians," says Professor Rosemary Hollis of City University, London.
"Otherwise they see their future as miserable."
The Middle East is facing years of turmoil. Many in the region are increasingly driven by religion and ideology rather than nationalism.
For them - whether conservative or liberal, religious or secular - the priority is not to change lines on the map but to advance their view of how society should be organised.
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Portugal's minister of culture has resigned after threatening to slap media critics.

In a Facebook post, Joao Soares said that he looked forward to landing "salutary blows" on two newspaper columnists.
The post attracted hundreds of critical comments from the public, opposition politicians and journalists.
Mr Soares, 66, resigned after Prime Minister Antonio Costa reprimanded him and issued a public apology.
"I won't relinquish my right to express an opinion," Mr Soares said in a statement.
He also said he did not want to create problems for the centre-left Socialist government, which took power in November.
Mr Soares, a former mayor of Lisbon and the son of a former Portuguese prime minister and president, has long been a polarising figure, the BBC's Alison Roberts in Lisbon says.
One of the articles in the Publico newspaper he was responding to in Thursday's controversial post (in Portuguese) accused him of incompetence, rudeness and cronyism.
He initially defended his comments as a response to an "insulting personal attack", but later apologised.
"I am a peaceful man," he said.


The under-35s are not a spendthrift generation, but are struggling to save owing to daily financial pressures and low wages, a trade body has said.

Young adults aged 18 to 35 are often described as the Yolo (you only live once) generation.
But the Pensions and Lifetime Savings Association said that label was unfair, claiming that as many got satisfaction from saving as did from spending.
The cost of living and low salaries were the biggest barriers to saving.
Fewer thought that their lifestyle scuppered any attempts to save.
The association's research with a relatively small group of 18 to 35-year-olds suggested that the majority were not racking up debts, outside of student loans. About a third were saving for a rainy day and a third were saving for a one-off such as a car, holiday or television.
Joanne Segars, chief executive of the association, which represents pension providers, said: "The 18-35 year olds are no different to many people - they want to save for a secure future, but short-term financial pressures get in the way.
"It is not surprising that without help, this group prioritises short-term over long-term saving, given the current rock-bottom interest rates and low wage increases."
Brothers Alex and Joe Penney are at different stages of their financial journey - and they have different priorities as a result.
Joe, 19, is soon to leave for university in Edinburgh to study philosophy and economics and is expecting to start building up a student debt.
He is hoping to get a part-time job to help pay for some of the day-to-day costs of student life.
"It might take a while in terms of properly saving for the big things, but I will try to save a little bit of it," he said.
Alex, 23, is just about to start work in a graduate programme in a new city, having completed his studies - and has the debts to show for it. He has already mapped out a savings and investment strategy.
"I am hoping to start saving from my first pay cheque. The only thing stopping me is the deposit, rent and fees when I move," he said.
"Most people [my age] are scared of the stock market, but I'm interested in it all."
Joe said he expected to ask his brother for advice in the future.
"He has it pretty well sorted," he said.
One pensions provider said that rising rental costs were eating up more and more of young people's funds as they strived to own a property.
"The gap between wages and property prices continues to widen. Faced with these property pressures, it is understandable that the need to save for retirement can feel like a luxury few can afford," said Alistair McQueen, savings and retirement manager at Aviva.
"It is to the millennials' credit that more than half see saving for their retirement as a financial priority. It is also to their credit that more prioritise long-term saving than short-term spending."


Pro-democracy activists have strongly denied Hong Kong leader CY Leung's claim that "external forces" are involved in protests in the territory.

Student activist Alex Chow said the leader's comments were "irresponsible", and said Mr Leung had not provided any evidence to support his claim.
Pro-democracy demonstrations have paralysed parts of Hong Kong for the past three weeks.
The protesters are calling for fully democratic elections in Hong Kong.
They are angered by the Chinese government's decision to vet candidates for the leadership polls in 2017.
In an interview with local broadcaster ATV, Mr Leung said the protests were "not entirely a domestic movement, as external forces are involved" - although he declined to give details or name the countries he thought were involved.
Mr Chow, from the Hong Kong Federation of Students, said: "To make a statement that there are foreign powers infiltrating this movement right before the discussions, is evidence that CY [Leung] is hoping to crack down on the entire movement."
One protester, Jeffrey Hui, told the BBC: "This is something which is purely by citizens, purely by those who live in Hong Kong, those who care about Hong Kong, who stand up and go against the regime."
Mainland Chinese officials have frequently warned against "foreign interference" in Hong Kong, while Chinese state media have accused the West of "instigating" the protests.
Analysts have argued that China could be making allegations of interference to discourage foreign governments from supporting the protests.
Tens of thousands of people took part in demonstrations earlier this month demanding full democracy.
While protest numbers have dwindled in recent days, activists remain entrenched in the Admiralty and Causeway Bay areas of Hong Kong Island, and in Mong Kok, a residential and shopping district across the harbour.
Police and protesters have scuffled amid tense stand-offs in recent days, although no clashes were reported on Sunday night.
There have been some police operations to move barricades and tents from the protest sites, but police have not managed to clear the protest areas.
Mr Leung would not confirm whether the government would attempt to clear the demonstrations again, but said: "We need time to talk to the people, particularly young students. What I want is to see a peaceful and a meaningful end to this problem."
Mr Leung added that the protests had "gone out of control even for the people who started it. They cannot end the movement, which is a major concern".
The protesters, who are mostly students, accuse Mr Leung of failing to stand up to the Chinese Communist Party.
Student leaders and Hong Kong officials have agreed to hold negotiations on Tuesday. The talks will be broadcast live on television.
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A driver has defended parking his car across two spaces in a supermarket car park to protect it from "clowns who can't drive".

Luke Varley, from Doncaster, was criticised on a Facebook group dedicated to photographs of people's parking blunders.
The 24-year-old said the abuse was "water off a duck's back".
The sales assistant said he chose to park across two bays to ensure his new car did not get scratched.
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Mr Varley's parking was featured within a private Facebook group after a shopper spotted his Vauxhall Astra positioned across two bays.
He said: "I've had a few people tutting and everything - but it's water off a duck's back to me. It doesn't bother me."
He added: "It's out of the way, where people who are disabled or have kids wouldn't park anyway. It's always when car parks are fairly quiet - if there weren't enough spaces I would park properly.
"And I'd never park in a disabled bay or a parent and toddler bay, as they're for another use."
Parking across two spaces has been dubbed "Clarkson Parking", after the TV presenter joked about doing it on Twitter.
Mr Varley told the Daily Mirror he did it due to the "amount of clowns who can't park or drive".
Further comments were made on BBC Radio Sheffield's Facebook page after Mr Varley spoke to the station on Thursday.
One individual labelled Mr Varley "a prat", but others supported his actions in protecting his car.
Adam Clarke said: "Maybe the owner has saved for ten years for that car? Then you get some old people carrier with young kids, who just fling doors open without consideration to the damage they may cause".
A spokesperson for the British Parking Association, which represents parking and traffic management operators, said "inconsiderate parking" causes problems for other motorists.
It advised that failing to abide by the terms and conditions set out on parking notices could lead to a penalty notice being issued by the car park operator.


Pakistani education activist Malala Yousafzai and Indian child rights campaigner Kailash Satyarthi have received the Nobel Peace Prize awards.

The Nobel committee described both laureates as "champions of peace".
Ms Yousafzai said she was there to stand up for the rights of forgotten and frightened children, and raise their voice rather than pity them.
Mr Satyarthi said receiving the prize was "a great opportunity" to further his work against child slavery.
Ms Yousafzai and Mr Satyarthi received their awards from the chairman of the Norwegian Nobel committee, in the presence of King Harald V of Norway.
They delivered their Nobel lectures during the award ceremony.
In her speech, Ms Yousafzai said the award was not just for her: "It is for those forgotten children who want education. It is for those frightened children who want peace. It is for those voiceless children who want change.
"I am here to stand up for their rights, raise their voice.  It is not time to pity them. It is time to take action so it becomes the last time that we see a child deprived of education."
It was a day when Indian saris and Pakistani shalwar kameez blended with finely cut Western suits.
It was a moment when the best of musical traditions from East and West filled the elegant Oslo Town Hall - a stirring Raga for Peace, South Asian Qawwali, a haunting rendition of Oh Holy Night.
But the voices which resonated most loudly were those of the Nobel Laureates.
Kailash Satyarthi ended his Nobel lecture with "Let us March!" and Malala Yousafzai declared 'Let us begin today!" Both see one of the world's most distinguished honours as a weapon in their fight for every child's right to be educated, and not to work in childhood.
Nobel organisers say there have never been such standing ovations or so many accredited journalists. But will this prize do even more to achieve the goals it has honoured - to champion children's rights?
Ms Yousafzai, 17, was shot in the head by Taliban gunmen in October 2012 for campaigning for girls' education and now lives in the UK.
She is the youngest-ever recipient of a Nobel prize.
She said she had brought other girls with her to Oslo with similar stories, among them two classmates shot alongside her by the Taliban.
Ms Yousafzai said she was dedicating the prize money to the Malala Fund, "to help give girls everywhere a quality education and call on leaders to help girls like me..."
"I will continue this fight until I see every child in school," she added.
"I feel much stronger after the attack that I endured, because I know, no-one can stop me, or stop us, because now we are millions, standing up together."
In his speech earlier, Mr Satyarthi said he was "representing the sound of silence" and the "millions of those children who are left behind".
He said he had kept an empty chair at the ceremony as a reminder of the children without a voice.
"There is no greater violence than to deny the dreams of our children," he said.
"I refuse to accept that the shackles of slavery can ever be stronger than the quest for freedom," he added, to applause.
Nobel committee chairman Thorbjorn Jagland stressed the importance of education, saying: "The road to democracy and freedom is paved with knowledge."
Mr Jagland praised Mr Satyarthi's work campaigning against child labour, often at great risk to himself.
He also lauded Ms Yousafzai's efforts to promote education despite threats from the Taliban, saying: "Her courage is almost indescribable".
Indian and Pakistani leaders congratulated the laureates.
Pakistani radio quoted Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif as saying: "The dream of Malala regarding girls' education shall be realised."
His Indian counterpart Narendra Modi tweeted: "The entire nation watches the ceremony in Oslo with great joy & immense pride. Congratulations @k_satyarthi!
"I also congratulate the young Malala Yousafzai for the momentous achievement."
Through the efforts of Mr Satyarthi, 60, tens of thousands of children have been rescued from hazardous industries.
He has endured death threats for his work, and two of his colleagues were killed.
Ms Yousafzai and Mr Satyarthi were jointly awarded the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize "for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education".
They have split the $1.4m (Â£860,000) prize money.
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Nobel Peace Prizes have been awarded 1901-2014
16 women have been awarded the prize, including Malala Yousafzai
17 Malala's age, making her the youngest ever laureate
62 average age of laureates when they were awarded the prize
3 laureates were under arrest at the time of the award: Carl von Ossietzky, Aung San Suu Kyi & Liu Xiaobo


On Friday, 28 October girls and women around Scotland will be heading to their local gyms, leisure centres and school halls to take part in Active Girls Day.

In association with Sport Scotland the aim is to celebrate all the amazing work that goes on to get girls active, as well as inspire more girls to participate in sport and physical activity.
Events will be hosted by clubs and schools and you can find out more on the Sport Scotland website.
Girls and women in Scotland are being encouraged to post photos on Twitter/Instagram. The pictures can be of themselves (or younger selves) playing sport, or of their female sporting role model. It is hoped that the word will spread across social media to get people talking about girls' sport.
If you would like to take part in this, all you have to do is share a photo alongside a bit about your own sporting experience, and use the hashtag #ActiveGirlsDay.
Want to try a new sport or physical activity but don't know where to start? Let our guides help you find the right fit.


When police in northern India recently began checking dishes of mutton biryani to ensure that they did not contain beef, critics said it was another example of what they are calling "food fascism".

The recent drive happened in a Muslim-dominated cluster of villagers in Haryana state, which is governed by India's ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
The state has some of the most punishing laws against cow slaughter, a special police force to protect cows, and the curiously named "cow service commission", among other things.
Volunteers and vigilantes keep watch in villages to check if anyone is slaughtering or transporting cows. Village councils have been telling local Muslims to stop selling biryani.
Why the humble cow is India's most polarising animal
A night patrol with India's cow protection vigilantes
Last week samples of biryani were taken away by the local police after "some people" complained that beef was being used. Poor biryani sellers complained they had lost their livelihood and pictures showed empty stalls on the local highway.
India's Hindu majority see cows as a sacred animal but many other Indians eat the meat. According to government data, some 80 million Indians - one in every 13 - eat beef or buffalo meat. Most of them are Muslims. But more than 12 million Hindus also eat the meat.
The cow is India's most political animal. But, as historian DN Jha says, it has "become more political under the BJP governments in Delhi and in some states, which are obsessed with beef bans and cow slaughter".
The ban on beef has also been criticised because the meat is cheaper than chicken and fish and is a staple for the poorer Muslim, tribal and Dalit (formerly untouchable) communities.
India also has a long history of religious conflict over beef - Muslims and Dalits have been targeted and reviled for eating the meat.
Eating the food of your choice has often become an act of transgression and defiance.
But the crackdown on biryani sellers in BJP-ruled Haryana on the suspicion that they were using beef in their dishes smacks of extreme behaviour. "Now public places selling food are being targeted. It is a new form of bullying," says Amita Baviskar, a professor of sociology.
It also points to a poor understanding of India's wildly heterogeneous dietary habits. There are, for example, 20 tribal groups in north-eastern Assam state which all have distinct cuisines.
"We need to remember that no community... has a monolithic culinary culture just as not all [upper caste] Hindu Brahmins are vegetarians or Muslims and Christians meat eaters," says Nabanipa Bhatttacharjee, who teaches sociology at Delhi University. To define India's food culture as vegetarian is, therefore, lazy and disingenuous.
Diets are changing and culinary borders are being crossed by all communities in a rapidly changing country. But this is making a lot of people queasy.
In 2012, the leader of a Haryana village caste council (khap panchayat) blamed noodles for rapes, saying that they led to hormonal imbalance. "The widespread derision with which this comment was greeted shows how thoroughly noodles have been incorporated into local diets.  Old men may express a fear of foreign foods and frustration at rebellious youth who no longer listen to their elders, but for the younger generation, noodles are here to stay," says Prof Baviskar.
The attempt to put some food out of the reach of people is a not-so-subtle warning that perceived and rigid dietary borders should not be crossed.
By targeting sellers, the food police may end up driving such food underground, just as prohibition has led to a thriving black market in alcohol in the western state of Gujarat.
People who don't like to be told what to eat, will always find ways to eat the food they want.


A court in Somalia has ordered the seizure of a radio station owner's UK passport after he was accused of threatening national security.

Somalia-based Radio Shabelle owner Abdi Malik, who was arrested in August, appeared in court handcuffed.
The judge freed him on bail on condition he surrendered his passport to the government.
He denies accusations that his radio station incited violence against the security forces.
The allegations relate to fighting following the government's disarmament of some clan militias in the capital, Mogadishu, in August.
Somalia is one of the most dangerous places in the world for journalists who are often targeted in the conflict between the UN-backed government, al-Qaeda-linked militants and rival clans.
The court did not grant bail to another Shabelle journalist who appeared in court with Mr Malik.
Instead, Ahmed Hassan - a Somali citizen - was remanded in custody, reports the BBC's Mohamed Moalimu from Mogadishu.
Two other Shabelle journalists are also in custody but did not attend the hearing on Tuesday.
Many local journalists have expressed solidarity with their colleagues, and have raised concern that they have been detained without trial for more than three months, our correspondent says.
The constitution allows for 48 hours detention without charge, he says.
Somalia's Attorney-General Ahmed Ali Dahir said the prosecution needed more to time to build its case.
He accused Radio Shabelle of broadcasting false reports and committing a "big crime" by instigating violence against the security forces.
The radio station, which is one of the most-listened to in Mogadishu, says it covers the conflict in Somalia impartially.
The country has been without an effective government or army since the overthrow of long-serving ruler Siad Barre in 1991.
Under a UN-backed plan, a new government was formed in 2012 which is trying to win back territory occupied by Islamist insurgents and bring back a measure of stability with the help of an African Union force.


Migration was said to be one of the big issues at the general election.

Now we know that net migration to the UK is at an all time high and in the East of England it's growing faster than almost anywhere else in the country.
Although the numbers aren't huge, according to figures published by the Office for National Statistics, net migration to the east of England has increased by 70% in the past year.
Its figures for long term international migration between the middle of 2013 and the middle of 2014 record that 46,900 people came to the BBC East region from abroad and just 21,200 left.
That's a net migration figure of 25,700, up from 15,000 the year before and after the South East (which is up by 34,000), it's the highest figure for an English region outside London.
Net Migration appears to be highest in Hertfordshire at 5,612, followed by Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire. Suffolk has the lowest figure at 3,035.
•Hertfordshire           5,612
•Northamptonshire   3,835
•Cambridgeshire       3,715
•Essex                        3,285
•Norfolk                    3,259
The CBI was quick to point out that many of those who come to work from abroad bring vital skills which are valued in the region's science and research parks while farmers and food producers in the East rely heavily on migrant labour.
But migration also brings with it pressures on public services, like schools and allegations of wage deflation, so politicians are keen to address people's concerns.
Despite the increase in migration, non-Britons only make up 7.2% of BBC East's population, a figure which has edged up from 4% 10 years ago.
Slowly the make-up of the region is changing and moving more in line with the rest of the UK, which could influence the political map here in the future.
At present the East is a UKIP stronghold but research shows that areas with smaller ethnic minority populations are more likely to support Farage's party - if the East changes, that might too.


A 16-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of robbery in connection with an attack on two girls which was filmed and posted online.

The footage of the attack, believed to have taken place in the Northfield area of Birmingham, has been viewed millions of times online.
West Midlands Police have now urged anyone who has shared the footage to delete it from their accounts because it may impact on legal proceedings.
The teenager remains in police custody.
Officers have already spoken to two other individuals, a police spokesman said, and "plans are in place" to arrest a second girl.
Insp John Askew said: "The response from members of the public, clearly disgusted by what they've seen online, has been overwhelming and we've had lots of people getting in touch to provide names of those [suspected of being] responsible.
"I would like to reassure everyone this is being treated very seriously and that the enquiry is progressing quickly."


Children in Powys will only be able to start primary school after turning four years old, it has been decided.

Currently, they can start school at the beginning of the term in which they have their fourth birthday.
But Powys council's cabinet approved the plans on Tuesday, which will see children start school in the September.
The change will be introduced from September 2017 and will save £1.2m a year.
The council also voted to increase the hours of free pre-school provision from 10 hours per week to 12.5 hours.
Councillor Arwel Jones, cabinet member for schools, said: "There's no secret that we are proposing this revised policy to help in our bid to meet the £27m budget savings target over the next three financial years."
He added: "Today's decision will bring us in line with the majority of other councils in England and Wales where children start school in the September after their fourth birthday."


Surgical staff left medical equipment in a patient undergoing a hysterectomy at a hospital in Northamptonshire.

The bung was left in place after the procedure at Northampton General Hospital.
A report which went before the hospital's public trust board said the patient was discharged home and the bung fell out four days later.
The hospital has apologised for the incident and said it had learned from the error.
It was one of two "never events" to happen at the hospital in Cliftonville in 2016.
A hospital spokesman said details could not be given of the second incident - that happened in January - due to confidentiality reasons but it was described as "wrong site surgery" in July's report.
The spokesman said: "Almost 80,000 procedures are performed annually by our medical and nursing staff.
"We are committed to providing each and every one of our patients with a high level of safe care and are deeply sorry that, in these two cases, a vital aspect of the care provided fell short of the standard we would expect.
"We don't underestimate the effect of a never event on our patients and our staff.  That is why we believe we need to openly tackle these issues on the rare occasions they occur.
"We have undertaken thorough investigations into the circumstances surrounding each of these never events and reported them to the Care Quality Commission, NHS England and our commissioners.
"As a result of our investigations we have improved our theatre reporting and recording systems."


Former Wales striker Nathan Blake has been appointed to the board of his home-town club Newport County.

The one-time Premier League player, 43, has been in talks with County's lottery winning chairman Les Scadding.
Since the return of ex-chairman Chris Blight, County have appointed three non-executive members to their board.
Blake is the fourth such appointment within a month. They have also named Jimmy Dack as manager until the end of the season.
Dack took over as a caretaker in the wake of Justin Edinburgh's departure to League One Gillingham.
The Newport hierarchy are trying to stop their slide down the League Two table.
One win in seven games has seen them drop out of the play-off places.
Blake will advise the County on football decisions, including appointing Edinburgh's permanent successor at Rodney Parade.