Labour remains "strong and determined" despite the internal turmoil of recent weeks, Jeremy Corbyn has said.

The party leader added he was "happy" with his shadow cabinet after last week's reshuffle, which had brought greater "diversity" to his front bench.
One of those sacked, Pat McFadden, had "distorted" his views on terrorism and the Paris attacks, Mr Corbyn added.
He also said party members would have a say on whether to back renewal of the UK's nuclear weapons programme.
Parliament is expected to vote later this year on whether to give the go-ahead for a new generation of submarines to carry the Trident missiles.
Mr Corbyn - who opposes Trident but faces opposition within Labour to changing the party's pro-Trident policy - told BBC Radio 4's Today programme a serious debate was needed on the purpose of nuclear weapons in the 21st Century and what role "Britain could play in bringing about a nuclear-free world".
Asked whether he would have to go if Labour's policy to renew Trident did not, he replied: "You are creating a crisis that does not exist.
Labour had an existing policy, Mr Corbyn said.
But he also had "a mandate I received as leader".
"Renewing Trident fundamentally goes against the spirit of the non-proliferation treaty," he said.
But the policy would be reviewed by the shadow cabinet and Labour's National Executive.
And that review would be "comprehensive" and would consider the "protection of skills and jobs".
"I want the members to have a big say," Mr Corbyn added.
But the National Executive would decide whether that would be through a vote at Labour's annual conference or a ballot of all members.
"Let's get the debate out there first," Mr Corbyn said.
He did not say whether he would attend an anti-Trident rally next month, adding: "Let's see what happens."
In his first major broadcast interview since last week's reshuffle, Mr Corbyn defended his changes, which saw pro-Trident former defence spokesmen Maria Eagle moved to culture and two of his critics - Mr McFadden and Michael Dugher - sacked.
"A reshuffle is never easy," he said.
"And there is never a good time to do it.
"We have a shadow cabinet that is strong.
"We have a team which is strong.
"We have widened the shadow cabinet to represent the diversity of the country and the Parliamentary Labour Party.
"I am happy with it.
"We are moving on."
Mr Corbyn had been criticised by some in his party for not being more emphatic in his condemnation of terrorists in the wake of the Paris attacks and for appearing to link the atrocities to the actions of the West.
But the Labour leader said his position had been misconstrued.
"I am absolutely not in favour of terrorism of any sort," he said.
"It is absolutely appalling and disgraceful that civilian life should be taken by random acts of terrorism as happened in Paris."
Mr Corbyn said the French government had been in no way responsible for the attacks, but there needed to be a greater understanding about how so-called Islamic State had come into being and who was funding and arming the militant group.
Asked whether as prime minister, he would authorise a drone strike to kill an alleged terrorist if it was believed they posed a direct threat to Britain, he said: "I would want to see the evidence of it, obviously, what difference it would make by doing that, what the chances are of capturing somebody - I suspect very, very low in those circumstances - so action could be taken."
Documents emerged on Monday suggesting Labour fears its annual income could fall by Â£6m as a result of legal changes to the way it receives funds from the trade unions.
The Trade Union Bill, being debated in the Lords on Monday, would require Labour-affiliated union members to "opt in" to paying a levy to the party.
And Labour believes three million fewer members of the biggest unions would agree, impacting on its structure.
But Mr Corbyn said the party was in good shape in the country at large and had proved successful in fighting the government over cuts to welfare, policing and local government.
"What I am trying to do is represent a very broad swathe of people's opinions around Britain who felt very put off by the politics of the past and the similarities of the economic strategies of the main parties," he said.
"This is a party which is very determined and very strong, and don't underestimate the huge activity of the hundreds of thousands of people who have joined the Labour Party and are active in communities."


Southeastern has blamed Network Rail after more than 20 rush-hour trains were cancelled, leaving commuters with hours of delays.

More than 20 rush-hour trains into London from Kent did not run, with some passengers delayed for two hours.
Services between Ashford and London were disrupted when lines were left without power because of overrunning engineering work.
A Southeastern spokesman said services were now "back to normal".
He said the delays caused by the power loss between Maidstone and Swanley "due to overrunning engineering works, which were supposed to be finished on time today.
"We do apologise for the disruption, but it is out of our control - we can only run our services if the track is fit for purpose," he said.
"Around 70% of all delays are down to infrastructure problems and we are challenging Network Rail to ensure that its asset maintenance programme is fit for purpose."
Network Rail responded saying the conductor rail had been damaged when a piece of equipment broke down at Kemsing.
A spokesman said: "We apologise to passengers who were disrupted this morning and would urge passengers to use the delay repay scheme to claim compensation.
During the disruption, passenger Sue Jones tweeted: "Totally fed up - if my performance at work was as poor as the train companies then I would have been fired!"
The bi-annual National Rail Passenger Survey has found the operators with the three lowest ratings all covered south-east England.
Thameslink had the lowest proportion of satisfied passengers at 73%, followed by Southeastern (75%) and Southern (78%).
Earlier this month, Southeastern blamed "bright sunlight" for delays to services through south-east London.


An estimated crowd of 120,000 attended the Scottish Airshow on Saturday after it was given the go-ahead following the Shoreham tragedy.

Organisers considered cancelling the weekend event in Ayr after a Hawker Hunter plane crashed during the Shoreham Airshow on 22 August.
A total of 11 people were killed in the incident.
But it was later decided that the Scottish event was in line with new Civil Aviation Authority restrictions.
Crowds gathered at Low Green to watch a series of displays from aircraft including the Red Arrows, Spitfires and one of the final Scottish flights of a Vulcan jet.
Doug Maclean, from The Airshow Scotland Ltd, said: "It has been absolutely phenomenal.
"From talking to the stewards and looking at our photos we think around 120,000 people were here throughout the day, double the number last year.
"It was a great family atmosphere, the weather was terrific and the planes were fantastic."
Mr Maclean said he believed the Shoreham tragedy may have led to a larger crowd turning out to support the Scottish Airshow.
"At so many airshows across the country recently there have been record attendances," he said.
"I think the public want to show their support for this type of event.
"There was no suggestion for a minute that things would be unsafe here, there is a great deal of care and it was just a fantastic day."
Concerns had also been raised by police over a Royal Marine land display at the airshow but it went ahead after the event was "slightly revised" earlier in the week.
Senior officers had objected to the marines being armed during the display at Low Green.
It was agreed with Police Scotland and South Ayrshire Council that there would be no rapid gunfire and planned explosions were scaled back.
The airshow continues on Sunday at Prestwick Airport, with a number of planes on ground display and the return of the Red Arrows.


Tranmere have signed Cardiff striker Danny Johnson on a one-month loan deal.

Johnson, 21, joined the League Two strugglers in time to start against Mansfield on Tuesday.
The forward scored 59 goals for Gainsborough in the Northern League last term, earning him a summer move to Championship side Cardiff, where he has yet to feature at senior level.
"He's a fantastic goalscorer who'll be a real threat for us," Rovers boss Micky Adams told the club website.
He is the second signing made by new boss Adams, following the arrival of Armand Gnanduillet from Chesterfield on Monday.


Venezuela's Supreme Court has delivered a blow to an opposition campaign to oust President Nicolas Maduro.

His opponents want to end his term in office early via a recall referendum.
The court ruled on Monday that they must now secure signatures from 20% of voters in each of the 24 states, rather than 20% of the overall electorate.
Venezuela is facing severe economic problems and although Mr Maduro's popularity has plunged, he has control over key bodies such as the court.
The key dates for the opposition campaign are 26 to 28 October.
On those days it must collect and electronically verify enough signatures to trigger the recall referendum.
It had faced a tough task already trying to reach a sum of around four million voters.
Now it must meet a 20% threshold in each state, including rural areas where support for the left-wing government is stronger.
The court said on Monday: "The failure to collect that percentage in any of the states or the capital district would nullify the validity of a presidential recall referendum."
Another key date is 10 January. If the recall referendum happens after then and Mr Maduro loses the vote, which opinion polls suggest would be the case, he would be replaced by his handpicked vice-president.
Mr Maduro has used institutions like courts to try to neutralise the control the opposition has over the National Assembly.
Mr Maduro was elected in April 2013. His term runs until 2019.
The oil-dependent country has seen three years of deep recession, with inflation expected to top 700% this year.
There are huge shortages of food and medicines, and looting is widespread.


Stargazers are in for a treat on Friday night - there will be a Black Moon, but what is it and will you be able to actually see it?

The Moon goes through a cycle of phases and usually once every calendar month a New Moon occurs - that's when the Moon seems to disappear entirely.
But don't worry, it's still there, we just can't see it clearly.
However, every few years two New Moons occur in the same calendar month - and that's what's known as a Black Moon.
The next Black Moon for people living in the Western Hemisphere of the Earth - including us in the UK - will take place on the night of Friday 30 September and early hours of Saturday 1 October.
In the UK it will be around 1.11am Saturday morning.
But as it's a New Moon, when the Moon seems to disappear entirely, you can't actually see it!
However, for stargazers it will give a clearer sky than usual because there's no moonlight. That means they can spot the other beauties of the night sky.


Bristol Rovers are set to sign striker David Clarkson and centre-back Rogvi Baldvinsson, subject to medicals.

Scotland international Clarkson, 26, has been training with Rovers following his release from rivals Bristol City.
Faroe Islands international Baldvinsson, 22, is set to join from Norwegian second division side Algard.
Manager Mark McGhee told the club website: "I am expecting him to be a stand-out at this division because of where he has come from."
Clarkson started his career at Motherwell, where he played under Pirates boss McGhee, and made 251 appearances before joining City in 2009.
He scored 11 goals in 67 games for the Championship side but failed to secure a regular first-team place and spent time on loan at Brentford before being released.
Clarkson has won two caps for his country, scoring once.
Baldvinsson, who has made 120 appearances and scored 16 goals for Algard, is set to sing for Rovers for an undisclosed fee and will join up with the side on Monday for his medical.


All dinosaurs were covered with feathers or had the potential to grow feathers, a study suggests.

The discovery of 150-million-year-old fossils in Siberia indicates that feathers were much more widespread among dinosaurs than previously thought.
The find "has completely changed our vision of dinosaurs", the lead researcher told BBC News.
The details have been published in the journal Science.
The creature, called Kulindadromeus zabaikalicus, was about 1m long, with a short snout, long hind legs, short arms, and five strong fingers.
Its teeth show clear adaptations for chewing plants.
Until now, fossilised evidence of feathery dinosaurs has come from China and from a meat eating group called theropods.
The latest discovery, in Russia, is from a completely separate group of plant-eating dinosaurs called ornithischians - which account for half of all dinosaurs.
The find takes the origin of feathers millions of years further back in time than had previously been thought, said Dr Pascal Godefroit of the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences in Brussels, Belgium, who led the research.
"It was a big surprise," he said.
"The fact that feathers have now been discovered in two distinct groups, theropods in China and ornithischians in Russia means that the common ancestor of these species which might have existed 220 million years ago also probably had feathers."
The discovery has "completely changed our vision of dinosaurs", he added.
"Instead of thinking of dinosaurs as dry, scary scaly creatures a lot of them actually had a fluffy, downy covering like feathers on a chick," said co-researcher Dr Maria McNamara of Cork University in Ireland.
So do all the pictures of dinosaurs in children's books need to be redrawn to make creatures like Triceratops, Stegosaurus, Tyrannosaurus rex and the vicious Velociraptor, fluffier and cuter?
Perhaps a little bit, according to Professor Mike Benton, of Bristol University,  who was also involved in the work.
"Our research doesn't mean that all dinosaurs had feathers, especially as adults," he told BBC News.
"Some will have had feathers as young animals and kept them throughout their lives. Others may have lost feathers as they grew up, and became large enough not to need them, or replaced feathers with scales or relied on bony plates in the skin for protection."
The key point is that dinosaurs were all initially feathered and warm blooded, confirmation of an idea that has prevailed for years, he said.
"Feathers were used first for insulation and signalling; they only later became adapted for flight."
But Dr Paul Barrett of the Natural History Museum in London, has doubts.
"Most feathers have a branching structure," he told BBC News.
"Instead these look like little streamers coming from a central plate. No bird has that structure in any part of its plumage and none of the developmental models that biologists use to understand the evolution of feathers includes a stage that has anything like that kind of anatomy."
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Russell Knox was thankful for a rain delay that ensured he did not miss his tee-off time in the second round of the US PGA Championship.

The Scot's grouping had already been delayed by rain.
"I was just sitting there with my wife having a yoghurt and then I looked at Twitter and I thought 'I'm meant to tee off in five minutes'," he said.
"Nobody came and told us. So I got kind of lucky that they made another 10 minute delay before we could go."
Knox recorded a second consecutive even par round of 70 at Baltusrol to ensure he would make the cut of two over par.
But he was left frustrated by a round that left him nine strokes behind joint leaders Robert Streb and Jimmy Walker of the United States.
"We got very lucky with the fact that we were on the first tee and they had a little delay and then, when we went back, it had stopped raining," he told BBC Sport.
"I've played better than I've scored. I made a couple of soft bogies today - middle of the fairway, eight-iron - and you just can't do that. Not when there's enough tricky holes."
Knox needs to win or finish runner-up to force his way into the nine automatic places in the European team for the forthcoming Ryder Cup.
Anything less and the world number 26 would be left relying on captain Darren Clarke choosing him among his wildcards.
"I feel that I've played well, but I just haven't got the putter going and haven't been able to create any momentum," added Knox.
"All my birdies have just been really good shots, which is good, but in order for me to get something going, I have to hole some putts and I just haven't been able to do that yet.
"For whatever reason, I have just not felt all that comfortable, so hopefully the weekend will be different.
"I know how to putt. I've just got to let it happen."


A woman has appeared in court after a 75-year-old woman was robbed in Aberdeen.

The incident happened on a footpath between Crimon Place at St Mary's Cathedral and Huntly Street on Monday afternoon.
Laura Crookston, 22, of Aberdeen, was charged with assault and robbery at the city's sheriff court.
She made no plea and was released on bail.


A wild boar escaped the forest to run around a Hong Kong shopping mall, eventually getting trapped inside a children's clothing store.

The female boar strayed from its normal habitat to the Chai Wan mall in the east of Hong Kong, where it stayed for four hours.
Reports said it climbed up a ladder before falling through the shop's roof.
The 25kg (55lb) boar was eventually tranquilised before being taken to an animal rehabilitation centre.
News reports in Hong Kong said the boar fell through the roof on to the top of display case.
It then jumped to the floor and ran around the shop, knocking over mannequins and signs.
The shop's manager told the South China Morning Post: "It just came in out of nowhere, and turned around at the window.
"It also pushed open the fitting room door and got in. Pigs are actually not stupid."
Wild boar are common in Hong Kong's countryside, and can become aggressive when confronted.
They can grow to 2m in length (6.6 feet) and weigh up to 200kg (440lb).


US Defence Secretary Ash Carter has said the US would not necessarily shoot down a North Korean missile, if it was not threatening.

He said the US military would want to gather intelligence from the missile's flight instead of intercepting it.
Mr Carter's remarks follow President-elect Donald Trump's Twitter comments on North Korea's nuclear ambitions.
Mr Trump had said the North's development of a nuclear missile that could reach the US "won't happen".
He did not elaborate how he would stop such plans.
North Korean leader Kim Jong-un had claimed in his New Year's Day address that his country had reached the final stages in developing a long-range nuclear missile.
Mr Carter said on Tuesday in his final press briefing that if a North Korean long-range missile is ever deemed to be threatening, "it will be intercepted".
"If it's not threatening, we won't necessarily do so. Because it may be more to our advantage to, first of all, save our interceptor inventory, and, second, to gather intelligence from the flight."
Mr Carter is due to step down as Pentagon chief when President Barack Obama's administration ends on 20 January.
But the top US military officer, Marine General Joseph Dunford, who will remain as Mr Trump's top uniformed military advisor and was at the event, agreed with Mr Carter.
On Sunday, North Korean state news agency KCNA quoted a foreign ministry spokesman as saying that a missile "will be launched anytime and anywhere" as determined by Pyongyang, despite efforts by the US to contain them.
North Korea has conducted two nuclear tests over the last year - five in total - raising fears that it has made significant nuclear advances.
It has never successfully test-fired long-range missiles capable of carrying nuclear warheads, but experts estimate it may be able to do so within five years.
UN resolutions have repeatedly called for an end to the country's nuclear and missile tests.


In our series of letters from African journalists, filmmaker and columnist Farai Sevenzo considers the nature of apologies, as Africa marks 20 years since the Rwandan genocide and the end of white minority rule in South Africa.

Sorry, the pop songs tell us, is the hardest word - but is it ever enough?
Libyan television showed Saadi Gaddafi in his blue prison uniform the other day, clean-shaven and looking well.
The authorities were keen to dispel rumours that the 40-year-old - who led a colourful life as a son of the great dictator - had been abused in prison.
He told the camera: "I apologise to the Libyan people, and I apologise to the dear brothers in the Libyan government for all the harm I've caused and for disturbing the security and stability of Libya."
There was no immediate indication that the "dear brothers in the Libyan government" would consider this adequate redress for the millions allegedly taken away by the former commander of Libya's Special Forces and former head of the Libyan Football Federation - but chances are they would not.
What Zuma should say about Nkandla
As we venture into April with all its anniversaries of history's gruesome moments - Rwanda 1994 or South Africa's removal of her apartheid yoke - how are we to understand the word "sorry" these days and more importantly does it count for anything at all?
The steady stream of Africans appearing at the International Criminal Court (ICC) ignores the central theme of our African atrocities - that it is the little people, the men and women on the streets and in the hills of our villages who take the business of killing very personally.
The events in the Central African Republic (CAR) have thrown up disturbing images of Christians targeting Muslims in revenge attacks.
Young men have filled our news screens to happily declare that they want to kill, have killed and will kill again.
African Union peacekeepers have been keeping a kind of peace where the Christians have refused to turn the other cheek and the UN has warned of the prospect of serious long-lasting conflict in the CAR.
As we remember Rwanda's genocide, CAR reminds us that we have been here before - that the early warning alarms are ringing loud and clear and that sooner or later we shall hear the politicians convening truth and reconciliation commissions and the murdering Christians may have to say sorry not just in the confession box.
But will it help?
Collectively we all expect to hear the word sorry.
A sorry from the great war-mongers of our times would not erase the wars, but it is expected.
And so, as we remember the 1994 genocide, we are reminded about who has and has not apologised over the world's failure to stop the killings.
In an interview over the weekend, Rwanda's President Paul Kagame mentioned "the direct role of Belgium and France" in the "political preparation for genocide" and repeated his claim that France did more than just "not having done enough to save lives during the genocide".
France rejected such complicity, with a former prime minister saying the country took "the initiative to organise a humanitarian operation to prevent widespread massacres".
The fall-out has been such that the French presidency at first suggested a boycott of Rwanda's 20th genocide memorial, then suggested they would be represented by their ambassador, only for that ambassador to say he had been barred from the ceremony.
Apologies though, belong to the victims not to the victor - and there is a silent chapter in Rwanda's history that claims President Kagame's Rwandan Patriotic Front (RPF) troops killed thousands, including peacekeepers, in their pursuit of power and peace and that group of souls is too easily erased from his own narrative - accusations denied by Mr Kagame.
All figures in 2013 financial terms
Source: Public protector report
How Zuma's home has grown
Over in South Africa, where the country marks 20 years of democratic rule this month, President Jacob Zuma is about to go back to his country and ask for another term in office.
And like all second-term presidents, the gloss has well and truly dimmed from his presidency and scandal after scandal hounds him.
South Africans, though, always seem to be expecting Mr Zuma to apologise - for his past, his friends, his lovers, his money, his way of governance.
Perhaps they have a taste for apologies following their Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which investigated human rights abuses carried out during the apartheid era and granted amnesty to those who showed remorse.
Just the other week Mr Zuma was told that the millions of public money spent on security upgrades to his rural homestead in Nkandla could not be entirely justified and that he had to pay back some of the money spent on the swimming pool, the chicken enclosure and the amphitheatre.
Public Protector Thuli Madonsela went further in her report on Nkandla: "The manner in which the Nkandla Project was administered and implemented gave me the impression of a toxic concoction of a lack of leadership, a lack of control and focused self-interest."
But those expecting an apology from the South African president may have a long wait - he has referred the whole matter to the Special Investigation Unit, leaving the nation to tuck into his latest dilemma as they prepare to go to the polls.
Apologies are very personal pleas for forgiveness between individuals.
When they are expressed we expect them to be wholesome and sincere - otherwise they never really stick.
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Venezuelan singer Memo Morales, 79, has died after suffering a heart attack during a New Year's Eve concert in the Venezuelan capital, Caracas.

Morales, who was popularly known as El Gitano Maracucho (The Gipsy from Maracaibo), became famous for singing songs with a Spanish flair, such as boleros and pasodobles.
He often sang with popular orchestras such as Billo's Caracas Boys.
His most popular song was Ni se compra ni se vende (Neither bought nor sold).
The singer, whose full name was Guillermo Enrique Morales Portillo, came from a musical family and won his first talent show at the age of eight singing a tango.
At 16, he moved from his home town of Maracaibo to Caracas and started performing regularly.
In 1964, he joined Billo's Caracas Boys, one of the most popular dance orchestras at the time in Venezuela, with which he stayed for 12 years.
It was during this time that he became famous for his renditions of pasodobles such as Que viva Espana (Long live Spain) and Se necesitan dos (It takes two).
In 1976, he went on a successful solo tour of the United States, singing in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Miami.
In 1984, he founded his own orchestra along with another Maracaibo native, singer Cheo Garcia. Cheo's and Memo's Great Orchestra stayed together until the death of the former in 1994.
Morales continued to perform with a new orchestra conducted by his son Guillermo and featuring three of his children.
In 2016, Morales was named an honorary citizen of Houston, Texas, for his contribution to music.
On New Year's Eve he performed two concerts.
During the second one, he suffered a heart attack on stage and later died on the way to hospital.
In tributes on Twitter, his friends said he had passed the way he would have wanted to, while performing.


Interim head coach Stuart Lancaster has rung the changes with his first England squad announcement, including nine uncapped players and discarding several of those who figured in a miserable 2011 World Cup campaign.

A trio of 2003 World Cup winners, Jonny Wilkinson, Lewis Moody and Steve Thompson, had already quit the Test scene, and Mike Tindall, Mark Cueto, Nick Easter, Shontayne Hape and Riki Flutey have been deemed surplus to requirements for this year's Six Nations.
In their place a raft of fresh faces, including Saracens' Owen Farrell and Brad Barritt, Northampton's Lee Dickson and Calum Clark, and Scarlets' Ben Morgan, have been given spots in the 32-man squad.
Players, coaches and pundits have been giving their reactions.
"This is a new era. For the first time you get the sense that England are planning for 2015. It is important that they win matches along the way, but I get the sense that they are planning for the World Cup and not just the Six Nations.
"If you look at the calibre of players; what Chris Robshaw has done at Harlequins, how Tom Wood carries himself when he plays for England, I think the standards are changing. There is not too much driftwood there.
"I think Chris Ashton will start with Charlie Sharples on the wings. In the centres, with Manu Tuilagi injured, I would suggest a combination of Brad Barritt and Owen Farrell.
"Although they are inexperienced, they play together at Saracens, and with club team-mate Charlie Hodgson likely to start at fly-half against Scotland, there will be a good immediate understanding.
"There are some exciting players in amongst the 28 backs in the elite and Saxons squads. And the exciting thing is there are some guys, the likes of Wasps' Christian Wade, Saracens' James Short, and Marland Yarde and Marcus Watson at London Irish, who aren't even there yet."
"We really have the chance to put teams to the sword, see how many tries we can score and how exciting we can be.
"If it doesn't work I'd say, 'Fair play Stuart, you gave it a go'. If it comes off he is going to be a complete god because we have been crying out for some rugby to be played.
"If it doesn't go well, if some of the guys, like Chris Robshaw, Owen Farrell and Tom Wood, come on individually then he would have left a little legacy for a guy like Nick Mallet to take on afterwards             .
"If they come away from Scotland and Italy with some decent results, then Twickenham is going to be jumping and you can just imagine the likes of Ben Foden and Chris Ashton running riot.
"Owen Farrell should be straight in the team, he is making things happen. You can see his father's influence in they way he is controlling the game and that is just as impressive as the physical things he is doing."
"I'm amazed to be included. It's a massive honour to represent my country and I can't express how excited I am. Everyone is talking about how exciting this young England squad is and I'd be delighted to play my part."
"Over the last few years Sarries haven't had much of a look in, so it just shows how far we've come as a team. The success over the last few years has really put Sarries in the shop window and it's a great moment for the club."
"I can't really put what I'm feeling into words. It's what every rugby player wants to do. You want to play for your country and I've got the opportunity to do that. "
"I was fortunate enough to have played for England against the Barbarians [in a non-cap game in May 2009]. Although I enjoyed the experience, I don't think I was truly ready. I feel I am now, and am looking forward to being a part of this exciting squad and working towards my first cap."
"I would love to have gone to [the World Cup in] New Zealand, but after I didn't get the call I knew the way to prove myself was to get back to Quins, work hard and set a good example on and off the field. Thankfully, I am part of an amazing team who love to play for each other, and this has shown in the results."
"It seems to crop up in the media, people discussing whether Mike can cope with it or not.
"We just need to get on with that. Mike is a senior player, he is here - he is not involved with any international teams - and his focus is solely here."
"Shame not to be involved but can understand why!! Good luck to the boys in the 6N!!"
"Congratulations to all the boys in the England squads especially the @QuinsRugbyUnion boys!! Big shout out for my boy JTH!! #superstar


Neil Jenkins and Graham Rowntree have been named on Warren Gatland's British and Irish Lions coaching staff for this summer's tour of New Zealand.

Wales skills coach Jenkins and Harlequins forwards coach Rowntree, both 45, will link up with Steve Borthwick, Andy Farrell and Rob Howley.
Jenkins was kicking coach and Rowntree forwards coach when the Lions beat Australia 2-1 in 2013.
"They understand what it will take to win in New Zealand," said Gatland.
The Lions will play Test matches against world champions New Zealand on 24 June, 1 July and 8 July, with Gatland due to name his squad on 19 April.
Both former Wales fly-half Jenkins and ex-England prop Rowntree will be on their fifth Lions tour, a third on the coaching staff following two as players.
"I have experienced two series wins, most recently in 2013, and I'm looking forward to getting out on the training pitch and preparing for the challenge this summer," said Jenkins.
Rowntree said: "This year will be the ultimate challenge considering the form that New Zealand have been in across the last decade.
"But looking at the talent and potential in England, Ireland, Scotland and Wales, it is a hugely exciting opportunity for us to do something incredible."
3 June - Provincial union team (Toll Stadium, Whangarei)
7 June - Blues (Eden Park, Auckland)
10 June - Crusaders (AMI Stadium, Christchurch)
13 June - Highlanders (Forsyth Barr Stadium, Dunedin)
17 June - Maori (International Stadium, Rotorua)
20 June - Chiefs (Waikato Stadium, Hamilton)
24 June - New Zealand (First Test, Eden Park, Auckland)
27 June - Hurricanes (Westpac Stadium, Wellington)
1 July - New Zealand (Second Test, Westpac Stadium, Wellington)
8 July - New Zealand (Third Test, Eden Park, Auckland)


A pipe bomb thrown into the garden of a house in Londonderry "partially exploded", a local councillor has said.

Police said they received a report that a device had detonated in the Irish street area of the city at about 22:20 GMT on Wednesday.
A number of homes in the Erne Gardens estate were evacuated during the security alert.
Army bomb experts examined the object and declared it a "viable pipe bomb-type device".
No one was injured during the incident, but police said that two men and a woman, who were in the house at the time, were left very badly shaken.
DUP councillor Drew Thompson said some 40 residents were moved out of their homes and taken to a local community centre.
"I went there immediately and a lot of the residents were out on the street after they had heard a loud bang," he said.
"The police appeared on the scene and obviously sealed the area off and decided to evacuate the surrounding area.
"I condemn this outright there is no place for this in our society," Mr Thompson added.
Police have removed the pipe bomb for further examination and appealed for information.


A primary school teacher who downloaded indecent pictures of children has been given a suspended prison sentence.

Parents of pupils at Llysfaen Primary School, Lisvane, Cardiff, have now been told by the head teacher that the court case was the reason why David Pugh, 54, from Caerphilly, was absent from work.
Pugh pleaded guilty and was given a 32-week term, suspended for two years, at Cardiff Crown Court on Friday.
The offences did not take place at the school or involve pupils.
In a letter, headmistress Melanie Jenkins wrote that the judge had said Pugh would never work with children again.
"I will not go into the nature of the crime, but feel the children deserve an explanation for his absence," she added in another letter.
In a joint statement after the court case, the school and Cardiff council said: "None of the offences took place in the school, nor did they involve images of children from the school, and as such Llysfaen primary was not part of the Gwent Police investigation.
"The safety and wellbeing of the children are of the utmost importance and the school has strict safeguarding measures in place."
Pugh was also placed under a Sexual Harm Prevention Order for 10 years.


Brazil's President Michel Temer has said he will block attempts to approve controversial legislation giving amnesty to politicians who received illegal donations for their campaigns.

Brazilians have protested in recent weeks against the measure.
The proposal comes amid a major corruption investigation at the state oil company, Petrobras.
Mr Temer took office in May promising to tackle corruption, following the impeachment of Dilma Rousseff.
But several members of his cabinet have already resigned amid allegations of misuse of power.
The left-wing opposition, still angry with the dismissal of Ms Rousseff, had promised to fight against the unpopular amnesty law.
Announcing he would block the bill, Mr Temer said: "It would be impossible for a president of the Republic to sanction such a proposal."
"It was necessary to listen to the voice of the street," he added.
"We all agreed there isn't the slightest basis for going ahead with this proposal."
The Speaker of the lower house of Congress, Rodrigo Maia, told the news conference that lawmakers would vote on the anti-corruption bill on Tuesday.
But he agreed with the Speaker of the Senate, Renan Calheiros, and Mr Temer, on the need to persuade party leaders not to table the controversial amendment to the proposal, which would benefit politicians who received undeclared donations in previous elections.
The opposition has also protested against legislation introducing major cuts on social spending and other programmes introduced by the governments of Dilma Rousseff and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva over the past 13 years.
Mr Temer said his government had to act to control public spending and help the country pull out of recession.


Virtual world-building game Minecraft, played by tens of millions of children worldwide, could be used in schools to teach pupils chemistry.

A group of Hull University students created an educational version of the game that allows players to explore specially created molecular structures and understand chemistry.
The aim is to engage young scientists in a fun and interactive way.
Minecraft players use building blocks to create structure and landscapes.
They are also encouraged to collect treasure and many other items.
The students developed the project with the help of the university's Minecraft expert, Joel Mills, and senior lecturer in biological chemistry, Dr Mark Lorch.
Dr Lorch said: "Minecraft is a fabulous tool for exploring structures of buildings, landscapes and even anatomy.
"So why not molecules? We showed it to a class of children the other day and there were lots of wows and gasps.
"This just really grabs their attention. It is a really novel way of engaging them and delivering information to them."
As well as structures and molecules to explore, the students have created a host of other surprises for children to roam around and find.
Dr Lorch said: "You can just explore and read the info about the molecules. But there are also a whole load of treasure chests dotted around filled with goodies, puzzles and quiz books.
"Some are easy to find, others are fiendishly difficult. If you locate them all then you'll probably have learned a fair bit of chemistry on the way."
Dr Lorch, who also has a role to engage young people in science, added: "If I've given them this information in a Minecraft world and shown them how to access it, then they are much more likely to go and find out about it than if I have given it in a PowerPoint presentation."
The Hull team is currently trialling the game, called MolCraft, in a number of secondary schools in London as part of various university outreach projects.
But it can also be used in primary schools to teach basic science such as how atoms form together to make molecules.
It is also available on Minecraft's educational library with versions for both pupils and teachers.
This is not the first time Minecraft has been used to engage children with scientific topics.
A world has been developed to teach quantum physics and many schools in Northern Ireland are using an adapted version to inspire creative writing and engage young people in city planning.


A fawn born after its mother was hit by a car has died from a brain injury, animal rescuers have said.

A driver took the fawn's injured mother to Fenland Animal Rescue after finding her at the roadside in Cambridgeshire.
A scan found the doe was heavily pregnant, and she gave birth at the centre last Sunday, staff said.
The fawn died on Friday from a brain injury most likely caused by the accident, a vet told rescuers.
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Fenland Animal Rescue's founder Joshua Flanagan said the baby's death was "a sad day for everyone".
"But this is, unfortunately, the harsh reality of wildlife rehabilitation for ourselves," he added.
Mr Flanagan had previously said deer were difficult to treat and often had to be put down as human contact causes them too much stress.
But the mother was "still doing fine", he said.
He added: "She went a little funny after [the fawn] passed, but due to her being so young she never really understood what was happening anyway.
"She is now back to her full self and eating fine."
The centre is set to release the doe back into the wild on Christmas Eve - earlier than initially planned.


There has been a big leap in the number of cancer patients turning to crowdfunding to pay for treatments not available on the NHS, figures seen by BBC Radio 5 live suggest.

Data from JustGiving shows that 2,348 appeals were set up by cancer patients or their loved ones in 2016, a seven-fold rise on the number for 2015.
Over £4.5m was raised by these appeals in 2016 compared with £530,000 in 2015.
Doctors say the number of patients bypassing the NHS is "very worrying".
Liz Sheppard, a mother-of-three from Mansfield, was diagnosed with small cell stomach cancer - a rare form of the disease - in November 2015.
She has now raised over £135,000 online to help pay for immunotherapy, which she is receiving at a private centre in London.
She has already spent around £60,000 of the money on immunotherapy, and says she is responding well to the treatment.
She told the BBC: "I'm able to get out and lead as normal a life as possible. Certainly I'm not bedridden.
"If it wasn't for people's generosity and kindness, I wouldn't be where I am now. It's not something I could have self-funded. Without that money I wouldn't be here.  It means everything.
"I'm a mother. I look at my children every day and they keep me going.
"And the messages people leave when they make a donation can be motivating in themselves. You can draw a lot of strength from them."
A spokesman for NHS England said: "More people than ever before are surviving cancer thanks to improved NHS care… and together with NICE (the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence) we have also launched a new-look cancer drugs fund, meaning patients will be able to access promising, new and innovative treatments much quicker."
According to the detailed figures released by the platform JustGiving, USA, Germany and Mexico topped the most popular destinations for patients travelling abroad for treatments last year.
More than a fifth of those looking for treatment (404 people) raised £1,393,490 in donations to travel to the United States for care.
Germany followed in second place with 142 people crowdfunding £368,530 (a 461% increase from 2015), whilst 23 people raised £69,660 to travel to Mexico for treatment (a 224% increase from 2015).
Immunotherapy was the most popular treatment crowdfunded on the JustGiving platform in 2016.
The therapy uses the body's own immune system to fight off cancer. It has been shown to work in certain cases, but not all. And some are still in the very early stages of research.
The treatments people have funded are not always considered to have the backing of sufficient scientific evidence by NHS experts.
Charles Wells, chief operations officer for JustGiving, said: "Over the last 12 months, we've seen more and more people crowdfunding on JustGiving to raise money for cancer treatments that aren't available on the NHS.
"It can be a practical way for friends, family and the community to come together and help, as well as providing a lifeline for people by giving them access to pioneering treatments when they've been given a cancer diagnosis."
Consultant oncologist Dr Clive Peedell expressed concern about the rise in the number of patients bypassing the NHS to fund their own treatment.
He told BBC Radio 5 live: "The NHS is clearly financially under pressure at present, but cancer therapy has received preferential funding compared with other diseases and conditions.
"The system for approving effective new cancer drugs is not perfect, but is much improved.
"The vast majority of proven effective treatments for cancer are funded by the NHS.
"This includes immunotherapy for a number of indications including lung cancer, which is my own field.
"However, funding pressures are likely to pressurise the current system even further and we could see it break down in future.
"It is therefore very worrying to see this trend of crowdfunding for cancer drugs.
"It would be interesting to review all the cases to find out how many are genuinely appropriate.
"I worry that some patients may be trying to access treatment that may not be beneficial.
"Worse still, there may be significant extra costs involved, especially if patients pay privately or travel abroad."
The NHS England spokesman said it was investing £130m in state-of-the-art radiotherapy equipment, alongside £200m of funding over two years to improve local cancer services.


A sculpture of a Roman centurion has been unveiled at museum on North Tyneside.

Based at Segedunum in Wallsend, the 8ft 8in-tall figure was made from three tonnes of Corten steel, the same material used to construct the Angel of the North.
Named Sentius Tectonicus, it marks the end 73-mile (117km) Hadrian's Wall which stretches to Cumbria.
It was constructed by artist John O'Rourke for North Tyneside Council.
The soldier's name comes from an inscription recovered close to Segedunum which revealed that a centurion named Sentius supervised the building of a section of the wall.
The structure has an opening at the bottom, with ladders ascending throughout four levels.
Mr O'Rourke said: "Wallsend's more recent history revolved around the shipbuilding industry.
"Making a figure which adopted industrial materials and fabrication methods ensures that the work's structural and material substance forge those links."


Johnston Press has revealed plans to cut editorial jobs across its operations in the UK.

The Edinburgh-based publisher announced the move in a memo to staff on Friday.
The number of planned redundancies was not specified but the National Union of Journalists said 32 posts in Scotland were at risk.
The move comes as the company, whose titles include The Scotsman and the Yorkshire Post, continues to cut costs following a decline in revenue.
The memo, sent by editor-in-chief Jeremy Clifford, said: "We're reviewing the structures within every newsroom, considering if we are best placed to deliver the content to our audiences in the fastest, most efficient way, and if not, identifying how we need to organise ourselves better.
"We need to consider if we have we got the right mix of managers, writers and those who curate and collate content from our communities.
"Other considerations include looking at the print portfolio, and have we got the websites most appropriate for our markets."
He added: "We expect the review of our newsroom structures will lead to a reorganisation for some of our teams as well. In some cases that will mean a reduction in team sizes.
"We have identified a number of areas where job reductions will come from and how that may affect different teams directly.
"Later today a number of announcements will be made about some of those proposals.
"These will set out our intention but it will take some time to work out the detail of those changes and how we want our organisations to operate in future."
Johnston Press, which also publishes the Edinburgh Evening News, later said it would be making no further comment.
NUJ Scotland national organiser Paul Holleran said: "It would be an understatement to say that journalists across Johnston Press are shocked at this latest round of job cuts.
"The NUJ will work with local management to mitigate the redundancies and their impact on the quality of titles but we are seriously concerned at this announcement."
Earlier this week, Newsquest announced plans to cut editorial jobs at the Herald and Times newspaper group.
The group said the move was aimed at ensuring "the long-term sustainability of the business" in the face of "challenging" trading conditions.


Jamie Cox is targeting a world title in 2016 after being cleared of assaulting an ex-girlfriend and freed from prison.

The 29-year-old from Swindon, who won the WBO European super-middleweight title last year, had a 26-week jail sentence overturned on appeal.
Cox's boxing licence is still suspended and he remains subject to suspended sentences for harassment, violence to secure entry and criminal damage.
"It'll good to be back in the gym, back to normality," he told BBC Wiltshire.
"It can work in my favour because, nobody wanted to fight me, but now they know I haven't been in the gym, they might want to fight me, thinking I'm a bit stale.
"This could have a positive effect. They might fight me now."
Former Commonwealth games gold medallist Cox has won all 20 of his professional fights so far, including 12 knockouts.
In February, he was handed a WBO title eliminator against an as yet undisclosed opponent.
"Hopefully in six months there'll be two more first-round knockouts and (I'll be) world champion," he said.
"It's not a time to celebrate. I'm happy to be home. Prison is not a good place to be. It's an experience I don't ever want to see again.
"I was thinking about my boxing career in there. Now hopefully it should be pretty straightforward to get back in (the ring) and win a world title."


Doctor Who fans have been given their first glimpse of The Doctor's new look following his latest regeneration.

Peter Capaldi, who replaces Matt Smith, will have a dark blue Crombie coat with red lining, dark blue trousers, white shirt and black Dr Marten shoes.
Filming for the new series began in Cardiff earlier this month.
Doctor Who's regeneration was the most-watched Christmas Day television moment last year with 10.2 million viewers seeing the five-minute sequence.
The new look was created by Doctor Who costume designer Howard Burden.
Commenting on his outfit, Capaldi said: "He's woven the future from the cloth of the past. Simple, stark, and back to basics. No frills, no scarf, no messing, just 100% Rebel Time Lord."
Capaldi, who is currently starring as Cardinal Richelieu in the BBC series The Musketeers, admitted to first-day nerves after stepping onto the show's set in Cardiff, with co-star Jenna Coleman.
Filming on the latest series of the show will continue until August with director Ben Wheatley coming on board.
Lead writer and executive producer Steven Moffat said: "New Doctor, new era, and of course new clothes. Monsters of the universe, the vacation is over - Capaldi is suited and booted and coming to get you."
Doctor Who took two honours at last week's National Television Awards - best drama and drama performance for Smith.
The record-breaking 50th anniversary special last year was among Smith's final appearances on the show.


Saudi Arabia is to send two female athletes to complete in the London 2012 Games, the International Olympic Committee (IOC) has said.

Sarah Attar will compete in the 800m and Wodjan Ali Seraj Abdulrahim Shahrkhani in the judo competition.
The Saudi authorities lifted a ban on women from the Gulf kingdom competing in the Games last month.
The public participation of women in sport is still fiercely opposed by many Saudi religious conservatives.
IOC President Jacques Rogge said it was "very positive news" and "an encouraging evolution".
"I am pleased to see that our continued dialogue has come to fruition," he said in a statement.
The IOC, keen to ensure "gender balance" at the Games, had been speaking to the Saudi Arabian Olympic Committee about the issue.
Speaking from her training base in the US, Sarah Attar said: "It's such a huge honour and I hope that it can really make some big strides for women over there to get more involved in sport."
The inclusion of the Saudi women means that, for the first time in the history of the Games, there will be a female entrant from every competing nation.
Female athletes from Qatar and Brunei are also due to attend for the first time.
Brunei's Maziah Mahusin will complete in the athletics, while Qatar has entered athletes into the swimming (Nada Arkaji), athletics (Noor al-Malki), table tennis (Aya Magdy) and shooting (Bahiya al-Hamad).
Bahiya al-Hamad is also set to carry the Qatari flag at the opening ceremony, in what she said was a "truly historic moment".
New York-based Human Rights Watch said the inclusion of Saudi women was a step forward.
"It's an important precedent that will create space for women to get rights, and it will be hard for Saudi hardliners to roll back", the organisation's Minky Worden said.
There is almost no public tradition of women participating in sport in Saudi Arabia, and officials have found it difficult to find athletes who could meet the minimum criteria for competing.
Officials have also said that female competitors will need to dress in such a way as "to preserve their dignity".
This is likely to mean loose-fitting garments and a scarf covering the hair but not the face.


Shamed cyclist Lance Armstrong believes the time is coming when he should be forgiven for doping and lying - and told the BBC he would probably do it again.

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Armstrong, 43, was stripped of his record seven Tour de France titles and banned from sport for life by the United States Anti-Doping Agency (Usada) in August 2012.
"If I was racing in 2015, no, I wouldn't do it again because I don't think you have to," he said.
"If you take me back to 1995, when doping was completely pervasive, I would probably do it again."
Speaking in his first television interview since confessing to Oprah Winfrey that he had used performance-enhancing drugs during his career, Armstrong tells BBC sports editor Dan Roan:
Armstrong had been the subject of doping allegations since he returned from cancer in 1996 to dominate one of the world's toughest events from 1999 to 2005.
He aggressively denied the claims until Usada's 200-page "reasoned decision" - complete with 1,000 additional pages of evidence - was released in October 2012.
Armstrong finally confessed in a two-part interview with US talk-show host Winfrey in January, 2013.
He was forced to step away from the cancer charity he had founded and has since kept his counsel, save for a handful of print interviews.
Speaking in his hometown of Austin, Texas, Armstrong said "the fallout" from his confession had been "heavy, tough, trying and required patience".
The father-of-five said his life had "thinned out" and "slowed from 100mph to 10", but added he would like to return to "50, 55".
As for whether the world was ready to accept his return to public life, Armstrong said: "Selfishly, I would say 'yeah, we're getting close to that time'.
"But that's me, my word doesn't matter any more. What matters is what people collectively think, whether that's the cycling community, the cancer community.
"Listen, of course I want to be out of timeout, what kid doesn't?"
Armstrong was asked if he would make the same choice to cheat that he made in 1995.
He said: "When I made the decision, when my team made that decision, when the whole peloton made that decision, it was a bad decision and an imperfect time.
"But it happened. And I know what happened because of that. I know what happened to the sport, I saw its growth."
Armstrong said sales at his bicycle supplier Trek Bicycles went from $100m (£66.5m) to $1bn and his charity foundation went from "raising no money to raising $500m, serving three million people".
He added: "Do we want to take it away? I don't think anybody says 'yes'."
Armstrong did admit to "unacceptable and inexcusable" behaviour towards other people during his career.
Former rider Filippo Simeoni angered Armstrong by testifying against his coach/doctor, Michele Ferrari, in a 2002 Italian doping case. The American called him a liar and denied the Italian a stage win in the 2004 Tour.
Armstrong also responded with legal threats and personal smears when Emma O'Reilly, a masseuse at his US Postal team, provided some of the earliest details on his doping.
"I would want to change the man that did those things, maybe not the decision, but the way he acted," he continued.
"The way he treated people, the way he couldn't stop fighting. It was unacceptable, inexcusable."
He added he had been "an arsehole to a dozen people" and had spent the past two years trying to make amends, with varying results.
Armstrong was equally forthright on what should happen to his Tour titles, which have not been reallocated, such was the extent of cycling's doping problem at the time.
"I think there has to be a winner, I'm just saying that as a fan," he said.
"There's a huge block in World War One with no winners, and there's another block in World War Two, and then it seems like there's another world war.
"I don't think history is stupid, history rectifies a lot of things. If you ask me what happens in 50 years, I don't think it sits empty... I feel like I won those Tours."
Armstrong reiterated his promise that he raced clean during his second comeback in 2009 and 2010, contrary to Usada's report, and said he would be the first to release his samples for retesting as soon as a test for blood transfusions is developed.
He also confirmed he has spoken to the Cycling Independent Reform Commission (CIRC) on two occasions and is now waiting to see if it will recommend a reduction in his ban, something that would allow him to "compete in some sport at a fairly high level", but also raise money for charity.
Armstrong was less forthcoming on his legal battle with former team-mate Floyd Landis and the Department of Justice. That case, which hinges on whether his team's sponsor, the US Postal Service, was defrauded of almost $40m (£26.5m), is unlikely to be heard in court until 2016.
But he admitted the strain of his legal problems was telling, and he looked forward to a time without lawyers and worries about what his children might hear at school.
A 30-minute documentary, Lance Armstrong: The Road Ahead, will be broadcast on BBC News at 20:30 GMT on Thursday, 29 January, and again over the following days on that channel and BBC World News. An extended edit of Dan Roan's interview will also be available on the BBC iPlayer.


Firefighters have been called to a blaze in a hotel in Lochaber.

It was understood the fire was in the roof space of the Spean Bridge Hotel in Spean Bridge.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service was alerted to the incident at 15:30.
Two fire appliances were sent to the scene with two more expected to arrive later.


An iconic building shaped like a basket in Newark, Ohio, home to a basket-making company, is to be sold.

Nicknamed the "Big Basket," and belonging to the home decor Longaberger Company, the building is looking for a buyer.
Employees who work inside the seven-storey basket building are being moved to another location in Ohio.
It opened in 1997 and once housed 500 employees of the company, the Columbus Dispatch reports.
Now, the company is facing hard economic times. The last employees working in the building are moving out this week.
"The Big Basket is like the St Louis Arch," Jim Klein, a former Longaberger president, told the newspaper.
He wants to get the building on the National Register of Historic Places.
"It's a really important part of south-eastern Ohio history."
The building's shape was the company's founder's idea, the Dispatch reports. It cost $30 million (Â£22.5 million) to build.
Dave Longaberger had a very specific idea for the building, the Dispatch reports, and would not settle on a design until architects agreed to make it look exactly like one of the company's baskets.
A Facebook group titled "Preserving the Longaberger 'Big Basket' as a National Treasure" has 1,683 members. Mr Klein keeps members updated on his mission to get the building on the National Register in the group.
"Wish we could all donate enough $ to buy the big basket and turn it into a museum. I realise this isn't feasible at all, but wishful thinking," one member writes.
Another writes, "It isn't fair. It's a landmark Dave built. What happened to this [company]. So sad."
Not everyone at Longaberger is sad to be leaving the basket, though.
Brenton Baker, director of marketing and communications for the company, told the Ohio Advocate that the office they are moving to is more convenient and they look forward to being closer to their colleagues.
"It is not a sad thing we are leaving," Mr Baker  told the newspaper.
"People keep saying they feel sad for the employees. Don't feel sad for us. I cannot wait for next week. For me, next week can't come fast enough. For the people on the outside, it's probably not that way."


A fire that broke out at a recycling plant in west Belfast on Wednesday could take up to 24 hours to be fully extinguished, Northern Ireland's chief fire officer says.

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Several fire engines and about 30 firefighters are still battling the fire at the Wastebeater facility on the Blackstaff Road, off Kennedy Way.
People living near the facility have been advised to keep their doors and windows closed.
BBC Newsline's Catherine Morrison reports from the scene.


A video of a cancer patient dancing in defiance of her condition while still in her hospital ward has gone viral.

More than two million people have watched it on Facebook and Instagram in the two days since it was published.
In the upbeat video, Ana-Alecia Ayala dances with her "chemo buddy" Danielle Andrus in a Texas hospital, while still connected to her intravenous lines.
The pair smile and laugh while performing the internet dance craze "TZ Anthem".
"Who says cancer and chemo have to get you down? We'll have the last laugh!" Ana-Alecia boldly states on her Instagram page.
She says she wants to show the world that "dancing and laughter" are the best medicine.
Her video is clearly proving inspirational, with thousands leaving positive messages on her social media posts - many of which are variations on the single-word: "beautiful".
"Love your video and your positive attitude. Such an inspiration. Praying for you!" Valerie Faulkner Bentley said on Facebook.
"Keep on dancing beautiful girl. Praying for you. Thank you for inspiring others. Sharing with my Facebook friend that has breast cancer. She needs this," Laura Swiatovy Roy-Gures commented.
"You're such an inspiration! Keep pushing beautiful you've got a big team cheering you on. Loved watching the positive vibes! Sending hugs from Houston," KK Garcia writes on Instagram.
Ana-Alecia was diagnosed with a rare tumour in her uterus in December 2015. Since then she has undergone surgery twice and started chemotherapy, according to her gofundme page.
She is being treated at the Baylor T Boone Pickens Cancer Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
Ana-Alecia told local news channel KVUE that she wants to inspire others "not to look at cancer as a death sentence".
"I also want to encourage cancer patients' loved ones to step out of their comfort zones and be silly, have a dance party, be present in the moment and have a great time," she told the channel.
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Two men who were sentenced to life imprisonment alongside Nelson Mandela in South Africa have received the Freedom of the City of London.

Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada  and Denis Goldberg were both jailed because of their activities during the Apartheid period.
Lord Mayor Jeffrey Mountevans said the honour was a "tribute to the noble and fearless fortitude" of the men.
They received the accolade with their defence team at the Guildhall.
The City of London said the men were awarded in recognition of their fight for freedom and racial equality.
Denis Goldberg
Ahmed "Kathy" Kathrada
Mr Goldberg, now 82, told a Q&A session that South Africa had "come a tremendously long way in undoing what the Apartheid government did" but "there is still a long way to go".
He told the audience he still did not know how he had been caught by police but at the time he was "certain we were going to be hanged".
Mr Kathrada, 86, organised protests for the ANC with Mr Goldberg even after the South African government had shut the group down.
He told the audience: "Even when we were banned we knew we had to carry on our work in some form or other."
Another political prisoner, Andrew Mlangeni, was also due to receive the Freedom of the City but was unable to attend the ceremony because of ill health.
His son attended in his absence along with Nelson Mandela's daughter and granddaughter.
A very brief history of Apartheid in South Africa


About 60 firefighters are still at the scene of a blaze at a student accommodation block in Nottingham's former Player's cigarette factory.

The fire broke out at the Student Lodge on Player Street on Monday afternoon.
Fire group manager David Stevenson said it was proving to be a "very difficult fire to tackle because of a number of hidden voids" in the old building.
Students were evacuated on Monday. Residents of nearby terraced housing are now being moved as a precaution.
Flames could be seen coming from the roof of the building in Radford earlier.
Mr Stevenson said a cordon around the scene had had to be widened because high winds were blowing around debris.
The fire is thought to have started between the third and fourth floors.
Part of the building is occupied, but about three quarters is still under construction. Builders who were working on the site were evacuated on Monday.
Crews from Leicestershire and Derbyshire are also at the scene.
The accommodation block is owned by a private landlord.


A crowdfunding appeal to raise £5,000 for "essential" winter kit has been started by a search and rescue charity.

West Midlands Search & Rescue (WMSAR), which is run by volunteers, supports the emergency services in Shropshire, Herefordshire and Worcestershire.
The charity said it was looking for money towards such items as waterproof warm jackets and a tent in the appeal which lasts until 2 February.
WMSAR has stations in Worcester and Telford.
The team has 30 volunteers, but said it needed funds to equip 10 other members who had just joined.
Last month the charity said one of its boats suffered "catastrophic damage" searching the River Severn in Shrewsbury for a missing man.
The damage on 29 November was believed to have been caused by submerged debris, WMSAR has said.


The Metropolitan Police is to examine new evidence about the extent of phone hacking involving journalists on the News of the World.

Assistant Commissioner John Yates told the BBC new information had emerged that would be considered by the police.
Former reporter Sean Hoare has claimed the paper's former editor, Andy Coulson, asked him to hack into phones.
Mr Coulson has told Scotland Yard he is happy to meet them voluntarily about the allegations, which he denies.
A spokesman for Mr Coulson said: "Andy Coulson has today told the Metropolitan Police that he is happy to voluntarily meet them following allegations made by Sean Hoare.
"Mr Coulson emphatically denies these allegations. He has, however, offered to talk to officers if the need arises and would welcome the opportunity to give his view on Mr Hoare's claims."
Mr Coulson came under fresh pressure last week after former journalists told the New York Times that the practice of phone hacking was far more extensive than the newspaper acknowledged at the time.
In light of the new information, Mr Yates told BBC Radio 4's Today programme: "We've always said that if any new material or new evidence was produced then we would consider it.
"We've heard what Mr Hoare's had to say, we've been in touch with the New York Times for many months prior to the publication of the article, seeking any new material or new evidence that they had. They didn't produce any until they published this with Mr Hoare.
"It is new and we'll be considering it, and consulting with the Crown Prosecution Service before we do."
He confirmed Mr Hoare was new to the inquiry and had "come from nowhere" as far as the investigation was concerned.
On Monday morning, lawyer Tamsin Allen said her clients, who include former Labour minister Chris Bryant and former senior Met officer Brian Paddick, wanted the police's decision making in this case to be "properly scrutinised".
And shadow Home Secretary Alan Johnson has requested an urgent question in the House of Commons, asking Home Secretary Theresa May to explain what she intended to do in light of accusations that current members of House may have had their phones tapped.
On Sunday she said there were no grounds for a public inquiry.
Home Affairs Select Committee chairman Keith Vaz said Mr Yates would be asked about the latest developments in the inquiry when he appears before it on another matter on Tuesday.
Mr Coulson - who is now Prime Minister David Cameron's director of communications - has received strong backing from Number 10, which said he "totally and utterly" rejected claims he was aware of any wrongdoing.
Mr Hoare told the New York Times he was fired from the News of the World during a period when he was struggling with drink and drugs.
The News of the World's royal editor, Clive Goodman, was jailed for conspiracy to access phone messages in 2007, along with private investigator Glenn Mulcaire, but the paper insists it was an isolated case.
While critical of the conduct of the News of the World's journalists, the Commons Culture and Media Committee found no evidence that Mr Coulson either approved phone-hacking by his paper, or was aware it was taking place.
In 2009, the Metropolitan Police chose not to launch an investigation following the Guardian's claims that News of the World journalists were involved in widespread phone hacking of several thousand celebrities, sports stars and politicians.
All five candidates in the Labour leadership contest have called for a fresh inquiry, echoing sentiments expressed by other senior party figures in recent days.
But on Sunday, Education Secretary Michael Gove told the BBC's Andrew Marr programme that the New York Times allegations "seem to be a recycling of allegations we have heard before" and may have been a product of newspaper "circulation wars" in the US.
Mr Gove said it was often "overlooked" that Mr Coulson, by resigning as editor in 2007, had taken responsibility for what had happened over the Goodman case even though there "was no evidence he knew what was going on".
Labour leadership contender Ed Balls, former Labour minister Tessa Jowell, who says her phone was hacked 28 times, and former deputy prime minister Lord Prescott, who also believes he was targeted, have all called for action.
Mr Balls said Mr Coulson's role at the heart of Number 10 meant that the government's "integrity" was under question.
Lord Prescott threatened legal action in his bid to gain access to documents relating to his records.
Mr Yates defended the initial police investigation, saying: "This was a very thorough inquiry, conducted in 2006, that resulted in the conviction of two people.
"It resulted in a very complex area of law being clarified, and it sent an extremely strong deterrent message for other people who may be getting involved with this in the future that this is not a privacy issue.
"This is much more than a privacy issue, this is a criminal issue for which you face the prospect of going to jail. I have to say this was a successful investigation."
The News of the World has rejected "absolutely any suggestion there was a widespread culture of wrongdoing" at the newspaper.
It said in a statement: "The News of the World repeatedly asked the New York Times to provide evidence to support their allegations and they were unable to do so.
"Indeed, the story they published contained no new credible evidence and relied heavily on anonymous sources, contrary to the paper's own editorial guidelines.
"In so doing they have undermined their own reputation and confirmed our suspicion their story was motivated by commercial rivalry."


A man who attacked a policewoman with an axe did not intend to kill her or cause serious harm, a court has heard.

PC Lisa Bates was left with with one of her fingers hanging off, a deep wound to the top of her head, a fractured skull and a smashed ankle.
Nathan Sumner, 35, chased her, shouting "I'm gonna kill you", when she and a colleague tried to arrest him at his Sheffield flat, the court heard.
He admits causing the officer grievous bodily harm.
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Mr Sumner, of Plowright Close, denies attempting to murder PC Bates and an alternative count of causing her grievous bodily harm with intent.
After she fell, Mr Sumner hit the officer with the axe a number of times as she lay on the floor, Sheffield Crown Court heard.
An officer responding to her plight heard a "blood-curdling scream" over his radio as he went to the Gleadless area in the city on 13 April, said prosecutor Sam Green QC.
The jury was shown CCTV footage of Mr Sumner's eventual arrest in a nearby Co-op store by police who brought him to the ground with a Taser.
He told one shop worker: "I've cut two people's heads off with an axe and you are next, you crazy bitch," said Mr Green.
More footage, shot by an officer on his phone and seen by the jury, showed Mr Sumner ranting at the officers.
David Brookes, defending, said it was agreed Mr Sumner was suffering from a psychotic episode at the time.
He told the jurors they would have to decide whether Mr Sumner really did mean to seriously hurt or even kill PC Bates.
The trial continues.


Tom Daley and Dan Goodfellow earned Team GB a synchronised 10m platform berth for this summer's Olympic Games with a solid performance at the Rio World Cup.

Daley, who claimed an individual berth with World Championship bronze in 2015, scored 446.40 with Goodfellow at the World Cup to finish third.
Freddie Woodward earned GB a second individual 3m springboard Olympic place by reaching the semi-finals.
Team GB now has 10 Rio diving spots.
Georgia Ward, who attained an individual 10m platform berth on Saturday, achieved a career-best result by reaching her first final at a major event.
Daley finished fourth alongside now retired Peter Waterfield at the London 2012 Olympics, but told the BBC last year he would not contest the synchronised event unless he believed there was a genuine chance of winning a Rio medal.
He and Goodfellow decided to pair up at the end of 2015 and showed some potential in their competitive debut together at the National Cup in Southend in January.
Their performance in Rio was much improved - only bettered by gold medallists China and runners-up Germany.
With another five months of training before the Olympics, they will be confident of being in medal contention given the event will only feature eight nations.
With Jack Laugher having secured Team GB an individual 3m springboard place by winning bronze at the 2015 World Championships, it was left to his diving partner Chris Mears and Freddie Woodward to secure Britain a second berth.
A poor second round dive ruined Mears' prospects, but Woodward produced six impressive routines to reach the semi-finals and attain the Olympic standard.
There was also 3m springboard success for former British divers Yona Knight-Wisdom and Oliver Dingley.
Knight-Wisdom is set to become Jamaica's first-ever male Olympic diver after qualifying his nation a place, while Dingley claimed a Rio berth for Ireland.
The Team GB diving squad for Rio 2016 will not be revealed until after the Olympic trials in June.


A convicted currency trader offered six London brokers take-away curries in exchange for helping him fix multi-million pound yen currency trades, a court has heard.

The six are accused of helping Tom Hayes and others fix Libor rates.
Hayes was found guilty of conspiracy to defraud earlier this year and sentenced to 14 years in prison.
Southwark Crown Court heard he asked the brokers repeatedly for help via instant messages and emails.
The jury was shown the messages and emails, and played recorded phone calls in which the prosecution claim the men explicitly discuss illegally helping him.
They included messages sent using Bloomberg Chat (BC) service between some of the men and Hayes in 2006, when he was working for UBS in Tokyo, in which he offered to pay for curries if they helped him with multi-million pound yen currency trades by manipulating the Libor rate.
Libor is the term for the benchmark interest rate which underpins hundreds of trillions of pounds of contracts, from mortgages to corporate lending.
The six men - Noel Cryan, 49, of Chislehurst, Kent, Darrell Read, 50, of Wellington, New Zealand, Danny Wilkinson, 48, of Hornchurch, Essex, Colin Goodman, 53, of Epsom, Surrey, James Gilmour, 50 of Benfleet, Essex and Terry Farr, 44, of Southend-on-Sea in Essex - are accused of conspiracy to defraud.
The men worked at different firms: Mr Cryan worked for Tullett Prebon. Mr Read, Mr Wilkinson and Mr Goodman worked for ICAP while Mr Gilmour and Mr Farr worked for RP Martin.
In one BC message in October 2006, Mr Read told Hayes he could help him with a Libor rate, adding: "Got to buy the cash boys a curry this week."
Hayes replied: "I should pay it for them."
Mr Read then said he would put it on his expenses. In another message series discussing a trade a few days later, Mr Read said to Hayes: "A Â£50 curry was cheap then?"
Hayes replied: "Yes mate. Whatever it takes, bill me."
In an email around the same time, during his first weeks working in Tokyo, the court heard Hayes wrote: "Should be good news today, Libor went up half a base point. Well done Darrell and Terry (Farr). I owe them a beer."
The jury has previously been told Goodman's nickname was Lord Libor.
In an October 2006 email exchange with Mr Read over setting Libor rates, Mr Goodman told him: "K10 (a Japanese restaurant) for lunch or cash would be preferable. Out for curry tonight."
He signed the email "MLord", the court heard. Mr Read replied: "K10 it is."
Prosecutor Mukul Chawla QC told the jury: "It is small things like beers or a curry. The process is not so trivial."
The six defendants all deny the charges against them and the trial continues.


The Chinese and Singapore Grands Prix are in doubt for 2018 after being listed as provisional on the first release of the official calendar.

Governing body the FIA has published a 21-race schedule, featuring a French Grand Prix for the first time in a decade - at Le Castellet in Provence.
China and Singapore have not yet completed commercial deals on new contracts with the F1 Group.
The season starts in Australia on 25 March, with the British race on 8 July.
The year ends at Abu Dhabi's Yas Marina track on 25 November.
Silverstone is at the end of the first ever run of three consecutive races, two weeks after France on 24 June, with Austria on 1 July.
And Germany returns at Hockenheim for the final year of its current biennial deal, having dropped off the schedule in 2017 because of financial problems at the Nurburgring.
The calendar has been shuffled compared to this year's schedule to make room for the French event in early summer.
The Azerbaijan race, taking place this weekend, will next year be held on 29 April, the date occupied this year by Russia, which in 2018 will be on 30 September.


New Zealand are to take legal action after their men's team were thrown out of Olympic qualifying for fielding an ineligible player.

The Kiwis were due to play Fiji in the final of the Oceania qualifiers after beating Vanuatu 2-0 in the semi-finals.
But the Oceania Football Confederation (OCF) upheld Vanuatu's protest that South-African born Deklan Wynne was ineligible to play in the match.
Vanuatu were then awarded a 3-0 win, but lost to Fiji in Sunday's final.
Fiji will represent the Oceania region at next year's Rio Olympics after beating Vanuatu 4-3 on penalties.
Left-back Wynne, 20, represented New Zealand at the Fifa Under-20 World Cup last month and has played at senior level after becoming a naturalized New Zealander.
The OCF's disciplinary committee ruled on Sunday that Wynne did not meet any of the criteria set out in article seven of the Fifa statutes, that would allow him to represent New Zealand.
Wynne, who was not born in New Zealand and doesn't have a New Zealand parent or grandparent, would have to have lived in New Zealand for five years from the age of 18 to be eligible.
New Zealand Football said it was not aware of the disciplinary hearing and was told the matter was being referred to Fifa.
They are now working with their lawyers to contest the committee's decision
Chief executive Andy Martin said: "While we firmly believe that the match should have been delayed, we will continue to do everything in our power to ensure that any final decision is only reached after a proper and fair process has been carried out.
"We trust that Oceania Football Confederation will change its position and conduct that proper and fair process."


The fizz in the Conservative Club gin and tonics may taste a little flat this weekend as folks realise that they have just been hit with potentially the biggest new wealth tax of all time.

The Tory manifesto pledge to use accumulated property wealth to fund the escalating price of in-home social care bill will be welcomed by many as a bold attempt to tackle one of the greatest problems of our age. Others will see it as a huge and risky departure from traditional Tory policy.
I merely argue that it has profound implications for the intergenerational economic structure and is likely to trigger a number of unintended and unexpected consequences for financial services and families.
Just how profoundly it will affect you is a lottery with several variables. If you just drop dead one day, you are fine (!) if it happens before you need social care. If your house is worth less than £100,000, you are also fine. The Tory proposal allows you to keep the last £100,000 of your estate.
However, if you live in the South East, have a home worth £500,000 and you need long-term care, you could end up paying 80% of the value of your home to fund it - which may be a big disappointment to your offspring.
There are some enormous questions to answer.
One way to avoid your property wealth being consumed by care bills might be to take equity out of your house ahead of time.
With equity withdrawal, an insurance company will give you a portion of the value of your house now, charge interest on that amount until you die and take the money you owe them out of the eventual sale proceeds of the house.
To take the above example - an insurance company lends you £200,000 against your house aged 65, charges 5% interest a year until your eventual death at 90. You now owe them £200,000 plus 25 years' interest at 5%, which equals £359,000.
If your house price stays flat, that only leaves £141,000 left in equity. If, as the government proposes, you are allowed to keep £100,000, that means your liability or your own social care is only £41,000 rather than £400,000.
Would that arrangement be permitted? If yes - this manifesto pledge could be the start of a gold rush for private equity providers. If no - their death knell.
There are already safeguards to stop this happening when it comes to residential care (for example if you know you have an existing health condition with a poor prognosis, taking out money in this way is seen as "deliberate deprivation" and is prohibited) - but knowing that your house may one day be engulfed by social care bills may encourage more people to take the money earlier.
Who will pay the social care providers while you are still alive and living in your house? Your requirement to fund your own social care is deferred until you die and your house is sold, but the social care providers will need paying in real cash as they deliver it.
The government or some public agency would presumably have to advance the money in the intervening years.
In a way, it's a bit like a student loan arrangement for older people. You don't pay it back until you have the money when you are - er, dead. The numbers involved as we grow older as a society could be colossal - and the administration of it complex to say the least.
The proposal that workers should be entitled to a year off to care for a relative was greeted with some scepticism when first revealed as part of the manifesto. Who can afford to take a year off work when all you will be entitled to is the carers allowance of £62.50 per week?
That calculation is very different when the alternative is paying someone else from the eventual proceeds of your parents estate and thereby burning through the value of a property you might have hoped to inherit.
Another question: could I be paid to be my own parents' carer? That way, the value of the property may be dwindling thanks to care payments over time - but those payments are ending up in my pocket.
Is there a limit to how much I can charge for my services? Who will police it?
It also has far-reaching implications for the pensions and savings industries. Is the financial advice industry ready for complex questions like these?
Sources tell me that working out the detail of this new and far reaching policy will require input from the Department for Work and Pensions, the Treasury, the Cabinet Office, the Department for Culture, Media and Sport and, of course, Number 10.
All of which means it may not happen quickly, but if it does, it promises to be the biggest shake-up of intergenerational wealth redistribution ever seen.
I don't have the answers to these questions. Sharp minds in the financial services industry are poring over the implications and angles as we speak. Meanwhile, families will be assessing the impact on how these changes could affect the fabric of their lives.
No one can say they weren't warned. Back in July of last year, Theresa May promised - in her words - "When it comes to taxes, we'll prioritise not the wealthy, but you. When it comes to opportunity, we won't entrench the advantages of the fortunate few."
The spiralling cost of social care, the strains it was putting on the rest of the NHS and the promise things could only get worse as the population ages collectively made for a formidable nettle to grasp. This is a bold attempt to do that.
It will be very interesting to see how a manifesto pledge to tax wealth rather than income plays on the doorsteps of older middle class voters - and their voting-age children.


New eye care services in mid and west Wales are expected to reduce journey times for hundreds of patients.

Currently, people with the age-related degenerative eye condition, wet AMD, who live in the Hywel Dda University Health Board area, have to travel to Ammanford or Aberystwyth.
But new services will be set up in Pembrokeshire and south Ceredigion to cut journey times.
The Welsh government said it would also reduce surgery waiting times.
Wet AMD (or wet age-related macular degeneration) causes sufferers to gradually lose their central vision, making reading increasingly difficult, colours less vibrant and people's faces difficult to recognise.
Previously, people with the condition had to travel to Amman Valley or Bronglais hospitals.
But the healthboard is currently considering South Pembrokeshire or Tenby Hospitals as a base for Pembrokeshire patients and either Cardigan or Crymych Health Centres for residents in south Ceredigion.
It is hoped the news sites will be up and running within the next three to four months.
In addition, consultant ophthalmologists are also training high street optometrists to review patients whose conditions are more stable. in the community.
A spokesman for the health board said: "Not only will these services bring care closer to home for these communities, but they will be developed as one-stop-shop services, which can accommodate review and injection in the same visit in order to stop duplicate journeys when possible.
"This will also release capacity in the two main sites for other surgical work, reducing waiting times for patients requiring cataract surgery."


French Open champion Garbine Muguruza and Wimbledon finalist Milos Raonic made shock exits in the second round of the US Open.

Canada's Raonic, the fifth seed, struggled physically as American qualifier Ryan Harrison - the world number 120 - won 6-7 (4-7) 7-5 7-5 6-1.
Spanish third seed Muguruza lost 7-5 6-4 to Latvia's Anastasija Sevastova.
Top seed Novak Djokovic reached round three without hitting a ball as Jiri Vesely withdrew before their match.
The Czech, 23, said he was "very, very disappointed" to pull out with inflammation of his left forearm.
Defending champion Djokovic, who has been struggling with a wrist injury, now faces Russia's Mikhail Youzhny on Friday.
Rafael Nadal safely navigated the challenge of Andreas Seppi, beating the Italian 6-0 7-5 6-1 under the roof on Arthur Ashe Stadium for the first time.
Former champion Marin Cilic and French seeds Gael Monfils and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga also progressed.
Raonic was among the favourites for the title after reaching the semi-finals at the Australian Open and the final at Wimbledon, losing to Andy Murray on both occasions.
However, the 25-year-old struggled to carry his bags by the time he left the court following defeat by Harrison.
"It was probably just nerves and stress, a mental sort of over-exuberance," Raonic said.
"Cramping in the left arm, right forearm there towards the end of the third set, both quads, a little bit in the hip flexor on the left. It was just catching me all over.
"I couldn't switch grips from one point to the next. There were a few points where I would hold the racquet with my left hand and trying to stretch out my right hand in between shots."
Muguruza, making her debut on Arthur Ashe Stadium, got the first break of serve before being overhauled by Sevastova, ranked 48th in the world.
The Spaniard, 22, fought back from facing two match points at 5-1 down in the second set to get back on serve at 5-4, only for Sevastova to claim a seventh break of the night.
"I was shaking a little bit in the end but it's amazing, said the Latvian, who retired in 2013 because of injuries and illness before returning in 2015.
Muguruza was surprised to suffer her second successive defeat in round two of the US Open.
"It's very rare when you play your best," said the French Open champion. "Everything I was trying to do, she was coming back and doing incredible shots."
Nadal, champion in New York in 2010 and 2013, became the first man to hit under the new retractable roof that has been fitted on the court.
When rain started in the second set, there was a brief suspension, but play restarted within eight minutes.
"It's just an unbelievable improvement," Nadal said. "I feel that the conditions are pretty similar when the roof is closed or open."
Two-time finalist Caroline Wozniacki fought back superbly to beat ninth seed and former champion Svetlana Kuznetsova.
Wozniacki, a former world number one, has slipped to 74th in the rankings and was one point from falling 5-0 behind against Kuznetsova.
However, the Dane battled back to win 6-4 6-4 and reach the third round at a Grand Slam for the first time since Wimbledon last year.
"I stopped looking at the ranking once I fell out of the top 10," the 26-year-old said. "I feel like I belong at the top."
Germany's Angelique Kerber, seeded second and in with a chance of taking the number one ranking, beat Mirjana Lucic-Baroni of Croatia 6-2 7-6 (9-7).
Kerber will now face 17-year-old qualifier Cici Bellis, who beat fellow American Shelby Rogers 2-6 6-2 6-2.
Roberta Vinci, Dominika Cibulkova, Johanna Konta and Petra Kvitova were other seeds to progress.
Fourth seeds Jamie Murray and Brazilian Bruno Soares came through a tight opening match against Gastao Elias and Joao Sousa, seeing off the Portuguese pair 6-3 6-7 (3-7) 7-5.
They were joined in the last 32 by the pairing of Britain's Dan Evans and Australian Nick Kyrgios, who defeated Americans Daniel Nguyen and Noah Rubin 6-3 6-3.


UKIP leader Paul Nuttall will stand in the Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election on 23 February, the party has said.

A by-election was triggered earlier this month when Labour MP Tristram Hunt quit to become the director of London's Victoria and Albert Museum.
The seat is traditionally a safe Labour one, but the party's majority has fallen from 20,000 in the 1997 general election to about 5,000 in 2015.
Labour is due to choose its candidate on Wednesday.
The Liberal Democrats announced on Saturday that Zulfiqar Ali will contest the seat for them.
He stood at the 2015 general election in the same constituency and came fifth, polling 1,296 votes.
That represented a 17% drop in the party's share of the vote from 2010.
Stoke-on-Trent, at just under 70%, recorded one of the highest proportions of Leave votes anywhere in the UK in last summer's EU referendum, despite Labour's policy backing Remain.
Mr Nuttall was confirmed as the UKIP candidate after the 10 other people on the shortlist withdrew to make way for their leader.
He replaced Nigel Farage as leader of UKIP in November, after serving six years as deputy leader.
The by-election could shed light on UKIP's level of support after Mr Farage's leadership, as well as the shape of politics post-Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn's performance as opposition leader.
The only other candidate for the seat to have thrown their hat into the ring so far is Godfrey Davies, from the Christian Peoples Alliance.
Mr Nuttall is striving to become UKIP's second MP, joining Douglas Carswell who became its first MP in 2014.
It will be Mr Nuttall's fifth attempt to win a seat in Parliament.
The by-election will be held alongside a separate poll in the Cumbrian seat of Copeland, triggered by the resignation of another Labour MP, Jamie Reed.
Mr Reed, a persistent critic of Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, announced that he was standing down as an MP to take up a position at the Sellafield nuclear power plant.
Labour has selected former hospital doctor Gillian Troughton to stand to replace him.
Labour's majority over the Conservative Party was cut to 2,564 votes at the last general election.
UKIP has chosen Fiona Mills, a pro-nuclear power candidate who works in the NHS, to fight the Copeland by-election.
Stoke-on-Trent Central by-election: Candidates list
Copeland by-election: Candidates list


The 2016 Paralympics are underway in Rio and there is plenty of Welsh interest.

Of the 246 athletes which make up the GB squad, 26 of them have connections with Wales.
There are medal hopes right across all 23 sports and Sport Wales has set a medal target of 20-30 Paralympic medals over the Rio and Tokyo Games in four years time.
Amongst those hoping for glory  in Rio are Aled Sion Davies and Hollie Arnold.
In London 2012, Welsh athletes contributed 15 medals to Paralympics GB and they will be looking for more success this time around.
Here is the schedule for Welsh paralympic athletes at Rio 2016. All times are BST and are subject to change. Please check the official Rio 2016 website for updated times.


Former loyalist paramilitary and Progressive Unionist Party (PUP) chairman William 'Plum' Smith has died.

Mr Smith played a central role in the ceasefire of loyalist paramilitary groups in 1994.
The announcement came six weeks after the IRA announced its own ceasefire.
Mr Smith spent ten years in prison for his role in the shooting of a Catholic in 1972. After his released from prison, Mr Smith became a member of the PUP.
In 1994, Mr Smith chaired a press conference in which a statement on behalf of the Combined Loyalist Military Command was read out by Gusty Spence, a founding member of the UVF.
He later served as the chairman of the PUP and was part of the party's negotiating team around the Good Friday Agreement.
The Deputy First Minister, Sinn FÃ©in's Martin McGuinness, tweeted: "Sorry to hear that William (Plum) Smith has died.
"I valued his commitment and contribution to peace. My sympathy to his wife and family."
The former PUP leader Brian Ervine told BBC Radio Ulster's Good Morning Ulster programme: "It's very, very sad that Plum has passed on.
"Plum was in the forefront of negotiating and bringing loyalist paramilitaries into the peace process and politicising the UVF and Red Hand Commando.
"He was a very intelligent fellow, he educated himself in Long Kesh.
"He also took Irish lessons there as well, he called the Irish language his own language.
"I'm just very, very sorry, I found him a very decent human being, and I found him a very forward thinking human being and he will be a loss, certainly to the Progressive Unionist Party and the loyalist community.
"He was a clear thinker, he was left of centre politically, he had a heart for ordinary people, for working class people, he tried to provide a voice, a voice which had been neglected.
"He was also happy enough to stretch over the fence and do business with traditional enemies."


A road in Northamptonshire was closed for five hours after a lorry became trapped while attempting to drive under a low railway bridge.

The A428 was shut between East Haddon and Great Brington when the lorry crashed into the bridge near Althorp at about 11:00 BST.
Northamptonshire Police said the road was cleared at about 16:00 BST.
London Midland said it had disrupted rail journeys on the Northampton to Rugby line.