The leader of the Conservative group in Slough has joined UKIP, citing Prime Minister David Cameron as a key reason for her defection.

Diana Coad, a Tory supporter for almost 50 years, has represented the Langley St Marys ward on Slough Borough Council since 2007.
She said she had found it "increasingly difficult" to support Mr Cameron.
"It has taken a lot of angst and a lot of crying to come to this decision," she said.
The Conservative Party has declined to comment.
Councillor Wal Chahal, deputy leader for Slough Conservatives, thanked Mrs Coad for her past contribution and support and wished her well in her new party.
"We are a party made up of local Slough residents, who were born and raised in this town and we will continue to fight for the needs of those who live in Slough," he added.
Labour-led Slough Borough Council said it was looking into whether Mrs Coad's resignation on Thursday affected any of the authority's committees.
Mrs Coad, 63, said: "It's got nothing to do with my former colleagues locally, it's the party nationally."
She added: "I've been in the wilderness since Cameron was elected. I have tried very hard to support him but I have found it increasingly difficult.
"Our infrastructure is crumbling under the sheer weight of numbers of people in this country, and people are continuing to come," she said.
"Someone has to address this issue without being called racist."
She said she had "no issue" with immigrants, adding: "I have friends from every nationality."
Mrs Coad would have been a Tory supporter for 50 years in March.
"When I was a teenager I used to hand out Conservative leaflets in the East End of London, despite my parents both being Labour supporters. I really have left my political home."
A UKIP spokesman said the party was "delighted" with her decision.
"Not only is she clear-sighted about getting our country back from Brussels, she has a fantastic record of hard work for her community," he added.
Mrs Coad was the Conservative parliamentary candidate for Slough in 2001 and 2010. In 2005, she stood in Stourbridge in the West Midlands.


The Liberian authorities say they will prosecute the man diagnosed with Ebola in the US, accusing him of lying over his contact with an infected relative.

When he left the country last month, Liberian national Thomas Eric Duncan filled in a questionnaire saying that none of his relatives were sick.
But Liberia's assistant health minister said he had taken a sick relative to a clinic in a wheelbarrow.
Mr Duncan is in a serious condition in a Dallas hospital.
His is the first case of Ebola to be diagnosed on US soil, where as many as 100 people are being checked for exposure to Ebola.
More than 3,330 people have died in the Ebola outbreak in four West African countries.
The BBC's Jonathan Paye-Layleh in Liberia's capital, Monrovia, says the prosecution announcement was made at the weekly Ebola update news conference, which is attended by numerous government officials and was dominated by the case of Mr Duncan.
"We wish him a speedy recovery; we await his arrival in Liberia" to face prosecution, Binyah Kesselly, the chairman of the board of directors of the Liberia Airport Authority, said.
Deputy Information Minister Isaac Jackson confirmed that Mr Duncan would be prosecuted as he "lied under oath about his Ebola status".
Before the briefing, Mr Kesselly told the BBC that Mr Duncan had answered "no" to all the questions on the Ebola form, which includes one about whether the traveller has any relatives sick with Ebola.
Assistant Health Minister Tolbert Nyenswah explained at the briefing that he was investigating Mr Duncan's movements before he left Liberia on 19 September.
He said Mr Duncan works as a driver in Liberia for Save-Way Cargo, a subsidiary of the international courier service FedEx, and lives in the Paynesville 72nd Community suburb of Monrovia.
Eric Vaye, a neighbour of Mr Duncan's, was also at the briefing to help with contact tracing, and said that nine people had died of Ebola in the district in recent weeks.
Mr Duncan is alleged to have pushed the wheelbarrow when taking a sick relative to a clinic.
Our reporter says this is banned and people are obliged to phone a hotline number to ensure that patients are collected by health workers so further contact with sick people is avoided.
Mr Nyenswah said it was "less likely" that Mr Duncan had passed on the disease when in Liberia because he was not showing signs before he left.
According to the latest UN figures, there have been 7,178 confirmed Ebola cases, with Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea suffering the most.
Leading charity Save the Children has warned that Ebola was spreading at a "terrifying rate", with the number of new recorded cases doubling every few weeks.
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond has called for urgent decisive action including more financial aid, doctors and nurses, from the international community at a conference in London.
Ebola virus: Busting the myths


Eleven people have drowned as a boat carrying migrants sank off western Turkey, local media report.

Nine people were rescued and two suspected smugglers detained, after the inflatable boat capsized off the coast of Kusadasi, DHA news agency said.
Five children were among the dead, it reported, and said the migrants were Syrians, probably attempting to reach the Greek islands.
Video footage showed several bodies laid out near ambulances on a beach.
It comes as more than 200 migrants are feared dead after a Spanish aid organisation found five bodies off the Libyan coast.
Proactiva said those bodies were found on Thursday morning, floating near two capsized boats which could each hold more than 100 people, 15 miles (24km) from the Libyan port of Sabrata.
The UN refugee agency, UNHCR, said it was "deeply alarmed" by the reports
Numbers of migrants trying to reach Europe from Libya via Italy have risen dramatically this year since a deal between Turkey and the EU greatly reduced the numbers attempting to cross from Turkey to Greece.
According to figures from the International Organization for Migration (IOM), between the start of this year and 22 March, nearly 3,500 migrants arrived in Greece - and two died on the way, compared to nearly 150,000 arrivals and 366 deaths in the equivalent period last year, before the deal was agreed.
In the same period this year, more than 20,000 people have arrived in Italy - using the Central Mediterranean route from Libya - with 515 deaths, up from just under 15,000 and 160 deaths in 2016.
The figures exclude the latest incidents, which the UNHCR says come after an intense week of arrivals in Italy, with almost 6,000 migrants and refugees rescued in just five days this week.
The Italian coast guard said they had co-ordinated more than 40 rescue operations in the last few days.
IOM spokesman Joel Millman said earlier this week: "We have yet to complete March, and we are already racing at a pace of arrivals that has exceeded anything we've seen before in the Mediterranean."
"This is typical of spring, getting very busy, but it's not typical to have the numbers be so high this early and the corresponding deaths that go with it."
This week marks the one year anniversary of the EU-Turkey deal, under which Turkey has agreed to take back migrants arriving in Greece if they do not apply for asylum or their claim is rejected.
But the Turkish President, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has said he will review the agreement after a referendum next month on boosting his powers, which has sparked a row over Turkish campaigning in some EU countries.
A note on terminology: The BBC uses the term migrant to refer to all people on the move who have yet to complete the legal process of claiming asylum. This group includes people fleeing war-torn countries such as Syria, who are likely to be granted refugee status, as well as people who are seeking jobs and better lives, who governments are likely to rule are economic migrants.


National League side Southport have signed goalkeeper Tyrell Belford on loan and brought in striker John Cofie on a free transfer.

Belford, 22, has joined on a season-long loan from Swindon, with no recall clause included in the deal.
"I've followed his career since he was at Liverpool and watched his progress at Swindon," said boss Andy Bishop.
Former Manchester United trainee Cofie, 25, joins from AFC Telford and has also played for Wrexham and Crawley.
The Sandgrounders have also announced that striker Connor McCarthy has signed a new one-year deal.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


Coach Jill Stidever has won the 2014 BBC Get Inspired Unsung Hero award after helping children learn to swim.

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Stidever has spent nearly 60 years helping thousands of children with special needs.
Colleagues, parents, and some of the children she has inspired described the 77-year-old as "one-in-a million".
Her work has helped in changing the perception of disabled sport and encouraging people to see disability swimmers as athletes.
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"For my team, husband and all the rest who supported me, thank you very much," said Jill Stidever.
"I had a seven-year-old boy win a race last weekend and he made a little speech thanking us for the medal.
"I have got tears and it was that that was particularly special. It was also special that parents have trusted their children to me over the last few years. I'm not the most conventional but I work new ways to help them. Thank you to all those who have supported me," she added.
Stidiver, who lives near Hinckley in Leicestershire, works 40 hours a week coaching, raising funds and organising. And some of the children she has helped have gone on to swim at the Paralympics.
Graeme Chilvers, who works at Hinckley and Bosworth Borough Council and is one of the people who nominated Stidever, said: "She gets parents involved, she gets Paralympians involved. She inspires people. The difference this is making is incalculable."
Jill Codling, whose son Levi is coached by Stidever, said: "She has changed my son's life. I was told he would never be able to swim but and he is now competing in the Nationals.
"Jill has empowered him and he is capable of anything," added Codling.
After winning the BBC East Midlands Unsung Hero award for 2014, Jill's husband Mick said: "She loves doing what she does.
"She will treasure this award as she will see it as a boost to all her swimmers, coaches and families alike, and a reflection on the joy of seeing a severely disabled person with a smile on their face as they succeed in achieving something very special - and it may not be just swimming - for the very first time."


The wealthy South African family accused of wielding undue influence through its links to President Jacob Zuma says it has been the victim of "xenophobic and hate speech".

The family took out two pages in a newspaper it owns to deny the allegations and respond to criticism.
Deputy Finance Minister Mcebesi Jonas has said that he was offered the top job by a member of the Gupta family.
This has led to increasing pressure on President Zuma.
"As the global economic slowdown began to bite, the family became the scapegoat for every calamity and misfortune that South Africa has faced," the Guptas said in a statement, carried in the local New Age newspaper.
The office of the country's anti-corruption watchdog, known as the Public Protector, has said it is considering whether to investigate the involvement of the Gupta family in state affairs.
Questioned by the opposition in parliament on Thursday about Mr Jonas' allegation, Mr Zuma said: "I'm in charge of the government. There is no minister who was ever appointed by the Guptas."
Mr Zuma's presidency has been marred by allegations of corruption, cronyism and incompetence, amid a worsening economic situation.
Last year, South Africa was hit by a wave of xenophobic violence against African migrants.
A senior governing party official warned on Thursday that the country risked turning into a "mafia state".
Gwede Mantashe is the third most powerful person in the governing African National Congress (ANC), and his remarks suggest Mr Zuma may be losing the confidence of influential members of the party as well, correspondents say.
Senior ANC officials are meeting this weekend and they may examine Mr Zuma's relationship with the Guptas.
The Guptas, who arrived in South Africa from India in 1993, have huge interests in computers, air travel, energy, and technology.
In 2013, there was an outcry after a private jet carrying guests to the wedding of a Gupta family member was allowed to land at a South African military air force base in Pretoria.


Indian musician and composer AR Rahman has responded to criticism against him for composing music for a film on Prophet Muhammad.

Rahman's response which he posted on Facebook said he composed the music in "good faith".
The Raza Academy in Mumbai said it issued a "fatwa" against Rahman and the Iranian director of the film Majid Majidi.
The institute also wrote to the Indian government, seeking a ban on the film.
The Oscar winning composer and musician was born a Hindu, but converted to Islam in 1989 at age 23, changing his name from RS Dileep Kumar to Allah Rakha Rahman.
Correspondents say his decision to make a public statement on Facebook is interesting, given that the musician generally steers clear of media interviews and talking about his beliefs. Although Rahman is active on social media, he usually uses it to promote his latest work or to point people to other interesting compositions.
In his statement Rahman said, "What, and if, I had the good fortune of facing Allah and He were to ask me on Judgement Day:  I gave you faith, talent, money, fame and health... why did you not do music for my beloved Muhammad film? A film whose intention is to unite humanity, clear misconceptions and spread my message that life is about kindness, about uplifting the poor, and living in the service of humanity and not mercilessly killing innocents in my name."
Vishwaroopam, starring Tamil superstar Kamal Haasan, was banned in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu, Mr Haasan's biggest market, after several Muslim organisations said it depicted the community in a negative light.
State Chief Minister Jayalalitha said that the ban was necessary to maintain law and order.
After calling it an attack on the freedom of expression and threatening to leave Tamil Nadu and live elsewhere, Haasan was allowed to release his film after coming to a compromise with religious leaders where he agreed to edit seven scenes.
The film was banned in several Indian states, including Nagaland and Punjab, after Catholic groups in the country protested against its release.
The film, based on the best seller by Dan Brown, claimed the Catholic church had conspired to conceal what the Holy Grail really was, and that Jesus had married Mary Magdalene and had a line of descendants that survived to this day.
A statement issued by the Tamil Nadu government said the release of the film, which portrays Jesus as a married man, might "lead to demonstrations and disrupt peace and tranquillity" in the state.
An Indian historical epic based on the life of Mughal emperor Akbar and his romance with a Rajput princess, the film was not released in Rajasthan after Rajput groups claimed  that it was a "distortion of historical facts".
Cinema owners had also received letters written in blood by a Rajput caste organisation called the Karni Sena.
Majid Majidi's film, Muhammad: Messenger of God, does not depict the face of the Prophet, but reportedly includes shots of the Prophet's back, via a low-angle shot of a teenage Muhammad against the sky, and his hands and legs as a baby.
"Firstly, the name of the Prophet shouldn't be in the film's title. People use a film's name loosely, like when someone says bad things about the film, it sounds like an insult to Muhammad himself. Secondly, photography isn't allowed in Islam. We have a problem with various actors shown playing Muhammad," a statement from the Raza Academy read.
It further said that Rahman would need to solemnise his marriage again and also read the Kalma once more.
Rahman's response to the criticism has gained massive traction on social media, garnering more than 32,000 likes and 3000 shares. Most of the comments - from both Hindus and Muslims - have expressed support for him.


A US appeals court has upheld a decision blocking President Donald Trump's revised "travel ban" on people from six mainly Muslim nations.

Ruling on a case brought by the state of Hawaii, the appeal judges found that the executive order violated existing immigration legislation
It is a further legal setback for the president's efforts to get the ban he promised his supporters.
Attorney General Jeff Sessions said he disagreed with the ruling.
"President Trump's executive order is well within his lawful authority to keep the nation safe."
He added: "Recent attacks confirm that the threat to our nation is immediate and real."
The dispute may end up being decided in the US Supreme Court.
Mr Trump's own tweet from 5 June was cited in the judges' ruling.
An earlier version of the travel ban, issued by Mr Trump just days after taking office, sparked confusion at airports and protests.
In the revised executive order, the 90-day ban was to apply to people from Iran, Libya, Syria, Somalia, Sudan and Yemen. It also called for a 120-day ban on all refugees, but removed references to religious minorities.
During his election campaign, Mr Trump called for a "total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States".
Reacting to the latest ruling, White House spokesman Sean Spicer defended the executive order, saying "we need every available tool at our disposal to prevent terrorists entering the United States and committing acts of bloodshed and violence".
"We continue to be confident that the president's executive order to protect this country is fully lawful and ultimately will be upheld by the Supreme Court," Mr Spicer added.
The Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco was reviewing a March ruling by a Hawaii-based federal judge that blocked parts of Mr Trump's order.
In their ruling, the judges said that "immigration, even for the president, is not a one-person show".
They said Mr Trump had failed to show that the entry of people from the six countries mentioned in the ban, as well as the refugees, would be detrimental to US interests.
But the judges said the government was allowed to review the vetting process for people entering the US - something the earlier Hawaii ruling had blocked.
Mr Trump has repeatedly said that the ban is necessary to protect Americans from terrorism.
Significant recent attacks in the US were not committed by citizens of any other of the six countries named in the order.
The legal ruling comes on the first anniversary of the Orlando nightclub shooting, in which a US citizen shot dead 49 people at a Florida nightclub. It was the worst mass shooting in US history.
This ruling is bad news for the White House but it could have been worse.
The appeal court in San Francisco did uphold the ban on the ban - but it declined to take a position on whether or not President Trump's executive order breached the US constitution.
In fact the three appeal court judges scolded the federal district court in Hawaii, whose ruling they were considering, for failing to heed the judicial principle that "courts should be extremely careful not to issue unnecessary constitutional rulings".
The lower court had concluded, among other things, that the president's executive order was driven by "religious animus" and was intended to discriminate about Muslims.
That was improper, said the federal judges in California, because the order could actually be dismissed on a statutory rather than a constitutional basis.
In particular, they argued, the order exceeded the scope of the president's "broad authority to suspend the entry of aliens or classes of aliens" because the administration had failed to prove that banning more than 180 million people from entry based on their national origin would be detrimental to US interests.
In other words, the appeal court concluded that the president was required by law to prove his case for the ban and failed to do so.
His lawyers may now get another shot in front of the Supreme Court although it is not certain that the justices will actually decide to hear the case.
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An MP delivered his daughter on the living room floor when his wife gave birth "a bit quicker than expected".

Conor McGinn, 32, said Neasa Constance was born after "a crash course in midwifery over the phone with a 999 call handler" on Friday evening.
The Labour MP for St Helens North announced the birth on Facebook, saying "mum and baby are doing very well".
"Those 'Labour delivers all year round' leaflets will take on a new meaning in St Helens," he joked.
He added: "Dad is only slightly traumatised after delivering the baby on the living room floor when she decided to arrive a bit quicker than expected... so quickly in fact that she beat the ambulance to it, meaning I had to have a crash course in midwifery over the phone with a 999 call-handler!
"Neasa is healthy and content and we feel very lucky and happy to have her."
Mr McGinn and his wife Kate married in 2009 and have a son.
The Northern Ireland-born politician was elected in 2015, and was a Labour whip before standing down earlier this month following the controversial sacking of chief whip Dame Rosie Winterton in Jeremy Corbyn's reshuffle.


Adele's second album 21 has overtaken Pink Floyd's The Dark Side Of The Moon in the list of best-selling UK albums.

The LP has now sold more than 4,142,000 copies, making it the seventh biggest-selling album of all-time.
Figures from the Official Charts Company show it is now 12,000 copies away from the sixth best-selling album, Dire Straits' Brothers In Arms.
"As every week goes by, another record seems to tumble in front of Adele," said spokesman Martin Talbot.
"Now, her 21 album has overtaken The Dark Side Of The Moon in the all-time biggest sellers list - and by the end of the week, it may well have overtaken Brothers In Arms, too.
"Then she will have Michael Jackson's Thriller in her sights.
"It has been an extraordinary 12 months or so for Adele, and it looks set to become even more extraordinary as the days and weeks go by."
The top 10 biggest-selling albums in the UK are:
1 - Greatest Hits - Queen - 5,864,000 copies sold.
2 - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles - 5,045,000
3 - Gold: Greatest Hits - ABBA - 4,992,000
4 - (What's The Story) Morning Glory? - Oasis - 4,520,000
5 - Thriller - Michael Jackson - 4,272,000
6 - Brothers In Arms - Dire Straits - 4,154,000
7 - 21 - Adele - 4,142,000
8 - The Dark Side Of The Moon - Pink Floyd - 4,116,000
9 - Bad - Michael Jackson - 3,960,000
10 - Greatest Hits II - Queen - 3,888,000


After some 16 years, the battle for Afghanistan - America's longest running war - is going to get a whole lot longer.

This was the essential message from President Donald Trump's address. His stress on abandoning timetables and moving to a "conditions-based approach" as he called it, means that US troops will be in Afghanistan for a considerable time to come.
The decision on a new Afghan strategy was much delayed, but after much prevarication he has essentially followed the line of his senior military advisers.
He refused to give any numbers as to additional troops and so on, but the plan backed by his generals is thought to involve the despatch of some 3,800 additional military trainers and advisers to the country - so it is likely that this is part of what will happen.
US air support  - crucial in helping Afghan government forces to withstand Taliban pressure on the battlefield - may also be stepped up, but here too President Trump was playing his cards close to his chest.
In rejecting some of the less conventional policy options like a total US withdrawal from Afghanistan, or the turning over of the mission lock, stock and barrel to a private contractor, President Trump has effectively taken ownership of America's longest running war.
Mr Trump admitted that his instinct was to withdraw US forces from Afghanistan altogether. But having grappled with the self-same problems as his predecessor Barack Obama he has come up with a broadly similar answer - more training and assistance for the Afghan forces to help them resist Taliban advances.
Of course Mr Trump inevitably tried to present this policy as a new departure. A conditions-based strategy means the US is involved for the long haul.
Things are not going well for government forces. The Taliban hold almost half of the country and the Afghan military's performance - other than its elite special forces - is patchy at best. So there is a lot to do just to stabilise the situation before even thinking about the Afghan government forces going back onto the offensive.
It was all wrapped up in typical Trump rhetoric - the talk of "victory", the insistence that the war in Afghanistan was not about nation-building but about "killing terrorists" as he put it. This was no doubt an effort to reassure his political base who are as sceptical about foreign military adventures as Mr Trump has always been.
Mr Trump proposed an integrated approach - military, political and diplomatic. He had tough words for Pakistan who he said "had much to lose by continuing to harbour terrorists. That will change and change immediately," he asserted.
But just how much pressure is he able to exert on Islamabad? Some US security assistance funds have already been suspended. But Pakistan - half-ally, half-problem for Washington - is also the prime intermediary  with the Taliban - a group at least parts of which, Mr Trump hoped one day, possibly, to bring to the negotiating table.
Mr Trump's stress on building up the US-Indian relationship and on what India might offer Afghanistan in terms of economic development was at least a stab at a wider regional approach - but one also intended to ring alarm bells in Pakistan.
There were tough words too for the Afghan authorities. Riven by factionalism and corruption, the Afghan government is no poster-child for democratic values. Mr Trump said that he wasn't going to dictate how the Afghans should rule themselves. But in almost the same breath he said Washington was not offering the Kabul government a blank cheque. "Our support is not unlimited," he said. "Americans expect," he said, "real reforms, real progress and real results."
President Trump's decision has implications for a number of other countries, not least Washington's Nato allies. The call already went out to Nato capitals before the summer for them to increase their contributions to the US-led force.
Britain, which already has some 500 troops in Afghanistan - mainly in and around Kabul - has already agreed to despatch a further 85 personnel. Like the other international forces and the bulk of the US troops they are not engaged in combat but in supporting, training and mentoring the fledgling Afghan forces.
UK Defence Secretary Sir Michael Fallon welcomed the Trump announcement noting "we have to stay the course in Afghanistan to help build up its fragile democracy".
Nato Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg similarly welcomed the Trump speech noting that the alliance currently has over 12,000 troops in the country and that over recent weeks some 15 allies have pledged additional contributions.
In his address President Trump - a longstanding critic of Nato - had some rare words of praise for the alliance noting that "we told them to contribute more and they have done so".
So these then are the broad lines of the Trump vision for an Afghan policy. The details? Well, they will become apparent later.  It is the moment when the Trump rhetoric came up against the Afghan reality, and the Afghan reality has probably won.
Afghanistan has now become Mr Trump's war. He faced the same set of bad options faced by his predecessors. And whatever the rhetoric he seems to have set a broadly similar course, except that he insists he will be tougher and that he will get results.


A former soldier who served in Iraq and Afghanistan took his own life after suffering with post-traumatic stress disorder, an inquest has heard.

Swansea Coroner's Court heard Dylan Jones, 37, of Llansawel, Carmarthenshire, was found slumped at the wheel of his car last July.
A post-mortem examination revealed he had died after suffering carbon monoxide poisoning.
Assistant coroner Aled Gruffydd recorded a conclusion of suicide.
Notes to family and friends were later found in Mr Jones' car, which was parked on a hillside near Pontardawe with the engine still running.
Two passers-by smashed open the window and tried to resuscitate him, but he was pronounced dead at Morriston Hospital in Swansea.
The hearing was told father-of-two Mr Jones suffered flashbacks and nightmares after witnessing the "horrors of war".
He first joined the army at 16, left to become a lorry driver, before signing up again in 2004.
While in the Middle East a colleague died in his arms and he witnessed another soldier lose their legs.
South Wales PC Stuart Evans prepared a report for the coroner which was read aloud.
PC Evans said, when Mr Jones left the army in 2012, his family began to notice "a change in his mood" and a "distant look in his eyes."
"He would sometimes scream and shout in his sleep," he said.
Mr Jones was diagnosed with PTSD in March 2015 before being placed on a five-month waiting list for treatment.
His partner at the time, Shan Thomas, said in a statement he appeared to be getting better after being prescribed anti-depressants and being referred to a specialist service for veterans.
But the inquest was told his mental health deteriorated when the relationship ended.
Mr Gruffydd said Mr Jones had been told he could "self-refer" and access the services of charities while on the waiting list - but he had declined.
"At the end, he experienced difficulties that Dylan felt he could no longer cope with," Mr Gruffydd added.
"I think Dylan is like me, and a lot of men, in a sense - we only ask for help when it's too late.
"It is tragic that another serviceman has chosen to end his life after witnessing the horrors of war."
Speaking after the inquest, Mr Jones' sister Amanda said she believed servicemen and women should be offered help much quicker than they currently are.
She added: "They've risked their own lives for the country, they should be given help immediately and before they leave the army - not left in the community to fend for themselves."


The Kremlin says secret plans for a Russian long-range nuclear torpedo - called "Status-6" - should not have appeared on Russian TV news.

The leak happened during a report on state-run Channel One about President Vladimir Putin meeting military chiefs in the city of Sochi.
One general was seen studying a diagram of the "devastating" torpedo system.
Launched by a submarine, it would create "wide areas of radioactive contamination", the document says.
The "oceanic multi-purpose Status-6 system" is designed to "destroy important economic installations of the enemy in coastal areas and cause guaranteed devastating damage to the country's territory by creating wide areas of radioactive contamination, rendering them unusable for military, economic or other activity for a long time", the document says.
"It's true some secret data got into the shot, therefore it was subsequently deleted," said Mr Putin's spokesman Dmitry Peskov.
"In future we will undoubtedly take preventive measures so this does not happen again."
The US Defence Department said it had seen the report, but would not comment further.
"We are aware of the video footage, but defer to the Russian navy as to its authenticity," a Pentagon spokesperson told the BBC.
However, the Russian government newspaper Rossiiskaya Gazeta later reported details of the weapon, without showing the diagram, and speculated about a super-radioactive cobalt device. So the leak may not have been accidental.
On the diagram the giant torpedo's range is given as "up to 10,000km" (6,200 miles) and depth of trajectory is "up to 1,000m" (3,300ft).
It was developed by Rubin, a submarine design bureau in St Petersburg.
It would, apparently, be launched by nuclear-powered submarines of the 09852 "Belgorod" and 09851 "Khabarovsk" series.
Rossiiskaya Gazeta called the torpedo a "robotic mini-submarine", travelling at 100 knots (185km/h; 115mph), which would "avoid all acoustic tracking devices and other traps".
Just before the torpedo diagram came into view in the state TV report, Mr Putin could be heard telling the generals that the US and its Nato allies were forging ahead with a global anti-missile defence system "unfortunately ignoring our concerns and our offers of co-operation".
He said the Western defence project was "an attempt to undermine the existing parity in strategic nuclear weapons and essentially to upset the whole system of global and regional stability".
In June Mr Putin said Russia would put more than 40 new intercontinental ballistic missiles into service this year.
The US is developing the sea-based Aegis Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) system to counter the perceived threat of short- and medium-range ballistic missiles from Iran or another so-called "rogue" state. Under the plan, air defence missiles will eventually be sited on land in Romania and Poland.
Mr Putin dismissed that Nato argument, pointing to the international deal, agreed this year, imposing limits on Iran's nuclear programme.
"References to an Iranian or North Korean nuclear missile threat are just used to conceal the true plans - their real goal is to neutralise the strategic nuclear potential of other nuclear states... above all, of course, Russia," Mr Putin told the generals in Sochi, a Black Sea resort.
He said Russia would continue developing strategic offensive systems capable of penetrating any anti-missile defence.
According to state-run Rossiiskaya Gazeta, the destructive power attributed to the new torpedo's warhead would fit the description of a cobalt bomb.
That would be a type of thermonuclear warhead with a layer of cobalt-59, which on detonation would be transmuted into highly radioactive cobalt-60 with a half-life longer than five years.
Such a weapon would guarantee "that everything living will be killed", the paper said - there would not even be any survivors in bunkers.
A cobalt bomb has never been tested because of the devastating radiation it would unleash.
"But it can be considered as a means of deterrence - like the Perimetr system, which is on combat readiness, which guarantees retaliation with all of Russia's nuclear forces even if command posts and the country's leadership have been annihilated".
Russian military experts told BBC Russian Service:


Conservationists cannot consider nest-boxes to be a substitute for naturally occurring tree cavities, a study has suggested.

A study found the artificial nesting sites had higher humidity levels and poorer insulation than tree cavities.
Researchers also found some species, such as great tits, favoured nest-boxes while others, such as marsh tits, favoured naturally available sites.
The findings are reported in the Forest Ecology and Management journal.
The team of scientists from Wroclaw University, Poland, and the Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, UK, wanted to produce data that highlighted the anecdotal evidence between tree cavities and nest boxes.
"The main message from the study is that nest-boxes cannot replicate tree cavities," explained co-author Marta Maziarz.
"The microclimate - the temperature, humidity and insulation - from outside conditions is different. The nest-boxes do not insulate well but they are generally warmer and they are drier."
She told BBC News: "They are not bad; they are just different. This has consequences for the birds."
Dr Maziarz outlined some of the consequences: "Because the boxes do not insulate so well, birds are exposed to more extreme temperature. This can be important especially in very hot or very cold climates.
"Also, nest-boxes are humid so chick may be dehydrated, and the boxes may attract insects or parasites, which may compete with birds for nesting sites."
She added that the dry microclimates of the artificial nesting sites resulted in the accumulation of material, so they need to be cleaned out in order to allow the sites to be occupied by other birds.
Dr Maziarz said this issue did not arise in tree cavities: "The nest areas are cleaned naturally so they are once again ready to be occupied by birds in the next spring.
However, she explained that the more exposed nature of tree cavities meant that they were vulnerable to being soaked, resulting in nest being lost.
The team carried out their study in two woodlands, One located in Poland, the other in the UK.
The researchers explained that nest-box sites were favoured by some species, such as great tits. And nest-boxes used in conservation projects had resulted in population recoveries, such as recorded in barn owls.
"However, others species such as marsh tits use mainly tree cavities, even when we place next boxes that mimic tree cavities. Different species behave in different ways."
She went on to conclude that it would not be fair to describe tree cavities as providing better nesting sites than next-boxes.
"They are completely different, and this is the point," she explained.
"From a conservation viewpoint, it is better in the longer term to protect mature trees that contain a lot of cavities because this provides more efficient nesting sites - tree cavities clean themselves. Tree cavities are also diverse and offer potential sites to many different species and animals, such as bats.
"However, nest-boxes could be used over a short timeframe," Dr Maziarz observed.
"There are some records of population recoveries of species, such as pied flycatchers or barn owls, that benefitted from the use of nest-boxes.
"So it is good to put out nest-boxes when there are no cavities, but you can't treat nest-boxes as a replacement panacea for the lack of nest sites."
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Students from Cardiff's Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama gave a concert in tribute to Dame Shirley Bassey on Saturday.

Dame Shirley is a big supporter of the college, having donated money in 2003 to set up a scholarship fund.
The scholarship is now awarded every year to an outstanding Welsh singer.
Dame Shirley attended the public concert and donated her dress, made by renowned fashion designer Jenny Packham, to raise further funds.
During the evening college principal, Hilary Boulding, announced the naming of the Shirley Bassey studio, in recognition of the singer's support.
Dame Shirley said: "There was nothing when I started, there were no schools or college for me.
"I made it, and I wanted to give that back to my hometown, where I came from in the docks of Cardiff."
Tenor Trystan Llyr Griffiths is a previous recipient of the Dame Shirley scholarship.
"I wouldn't have been able to study at RWCMD without it," he said.
"I had many great experiences while at the college, performing for Prince Charles and many other high profile concerts, and this has been great for me going forward as a performer."


Fernando Alonso has told staff at his McLaren-Honda team that his "only goal" is to win a third world championship with them.

The Spaniard has been linked to the vacant Mercedes seat alongside Lewis Hamilton in 2017, following world champion Nico Rosberg's retirement.
But on a visit to McLaren's factory in Surrey, he said: "I believe in this project.
"I'm committed and I want to be world champion with McLaren-Honda."
The team announced his remarks on their Twitter account.
Alonso had earlier posted on Instagram a photo he had taken of some of the team's iconic cars in the ground-floor display area at the factory, accompanied by emojis with hearts in their eyes.
The 35-year-old's comments follow an interview his manager Flavio Briatore gave to the Italian newspaper Gazetta dello Sport last week in which he said: "We have an agreement with McLaren and we are going to respect that. It's simple."
Alonso is contracted to McLaren until the end of 2017, the final season of a three-year contract in which he earns a salary of $40m (£31.5m).
Mercedes F1 boss Toto Wolff said last week that he "had to consider" Alonso as a replacement for Rosberg, who announced his retirement five days after winning his first world title in the final race of the season in Abu Dhabi last month.
But BBC Sport revealed on Sunday that Wolff's number one choice is Williams driver Valtteri Bottas.
Mercedes last week made an offer for the Finn which included a reduction of Williams' engine bill by €10m (£8.3m) - more than half the total amount.
Williams have rejected this initial approach but negotiations are expected to continue this week.
Williams also have the option taking Mercedes reserve driver Pascal Wehrlein as a replacement for Bottas, although that is not a requirement of the deal.
Mercedes are reluctant to promote the German because they feel after just one season in F1 he lacks the experience to score sufficient regular points finishes to help the team win the constructors' championship.
Williams' reluctance to lose Bottas is related to the same issue. Their other driver is the Canadian rookie Lance Stroll and they feel they need a reliable, experienced figure as their lead performer to guarantee points.
Mercedes' problem is that all the potential candidates with sufficient experience and ability are under contract to other teams.


The US government says it has released six Guantanamo Bay detainees and sent them to Uruguay for resettlement.

A Pentagon statement on Sunday identified the men as four Syrians, a Tunisian and a Palestinian.
All six had been detained as suspected militants with ties to al-Qaeda but were never charged.
Uruguayan President Jose Mujica decided to take the detainees on humanitarian grounds in March but the move was put off until after elections last month.
"The United States is grateful to the Government of Uruguay for its willingness to support ongoing US efforts to close the Guantanamo Bay detention facility," the Pentagon said in a statement.
President Barack Obama has pledged to close the camp in Cuba, which was opened in 2002 as a place to detain enemy combatants in America's war on terror.
Around half of the 136 men still in Guantanamo have been cleared for transfer but have nowhere to go because their countries are unstable or unsafe.
More than 50 countries have accepted former Guantanamo detainees.
The US named the prisoners released to Uruguay as Ahmed Adnan Ahjam, Ali Hussain Shaabaan, Omar Mahmoud Faraj, Abdul Bin Mohammed Abis Ourgy, Mohammed Tahanmatan, and Jihad Diyab.
They have been cleared for release since at least 2010 but they could not be sent home, according to the Associated Press.
In Latin America, El Salvador is the only other country to have given Guantanamo prisoners sanctuary, taking two in 2012.
An October opinion poll showed 58% of Uruguayans were opposed to bringing in the prisoners.
President Mujica was himself held for over a decade in harsh prison conditions during Uruguay's period of military rule in the 1970s and 80s.
Reiterating his commitment to take the six prisoners on Friday, he said Uruguay was offering its hospitality to "human beings who have suffered a terrible kidnapping in Guantanamo Bay".


The patio of a pub whose landlady is missing has been dug up by police who are now treating the case as murder.

Deborah Steel, 37, ran the Royal Standard in Ely, Cambridgeshire, and vanished on 28 December 1997. Her body has not been found.
The search had the full consent of the present landlord who is not connected with the investigation.
Police said further lines of enquiry were being followed in the search for the "truth about the disappearance".
A 73-year-old man is on bail until 29 April and two others, aged 70 and 50, have since had theirs cancelled.
Ms Steel's disappearance was recently reclassified from a long-term missing person to a murder inquiry by Cambridgeshire Police.
Her half-sister, Gini Secker, said reopening the case had given the family hope, but that it was "so very sad" that their father had died without knowing what had happened to Ms Steel.


Police are investigating the possibility that three-year-old Mikaeel Kular has gone missing following "a criminal act", a senior officer confirmed.

But it was also "entirely possible" the boy had left home of his own accord, a senior officer said.
Police Scotland had earlier revealed there had been a "potential sighting" of Mikaeel on Thursday morning.
Members of the public saw a young boy alone at about 08:30.
Police are to continue searching for Mikaeel through the night, with any volunteers wishing to help on Saturday asked to attend at the West Pilton Neighbourhood Centre in West Pilton Grove at 10:00.
The possible sighting was in West Pilton Gardens, close to Mikaeel's Edinburgh home.
Assitant Chief Constable Malcolm Graham told the media: "It is normal in inquiries such as this to take a twin track approach aimed at finding the missing person and at the same time investigating and preparing for the possibility of a crime being committed.
2100: Mikaeel is last seen going to bed at home in Ferry Gait Crescent, Edinburgh
0715: Mikaeel's mother discovers he is missing from his bed
0830: Witnesses driving down West Pilton Gardens see a young boy running along the street
0900: Police Scotland announce they have launched a search for the boy in the Drylaw area. Officers are assisted by a police helicopter
1430: Coastguard teams and lifeboats search the shoreline in the Cramond an Drylaw area
1600: A dedicated telephone line is established as part of a Child Rescue Alert, supported by all police forces across the UK
1630: People asked to urgently check all property including gardens, outbuildings, garages, sheds and vehicles
2100: A new image of missing Mikaeel is released, showing beige jacket he was believed to be wearing when he disappeared
Overnight: Neighbours and the emergency services search through the night for the child
0700: Supt McAinsh says there has been a "fantastic" response from the public. It emerges that more than 150 calls have been made to the helpline
1000: Hundreds of people gather at the North Neighbourhood Centre in West Pilton Gardens to help search
"Major Investigation Team detectives are proactively trying to establish the full circumstances around Mikaeel's disappearance, including confirmation or otherwise that he left of his own accord or if a crime has been committed or not."
Hundreds of volunteers have joined the search for the missing boy.
Mikaeel has not been seen since being put to bed at his home in Ferry Gait Crescent on Wednesday night.
His mother, named locally as Rosdeep Kular, 33, put him to bed at about 21:00.
Supt Liz McAinsh of Police Scotland has been speaking about the possible sighting.
She said CCTV footage had confirmed the time of the sighting, but could not confirm the identity of the child.
Supt McAinsh said: "Since Mikaeel was reported missing, we have been contacted by a number of people with information which we have been working to assess and respond to.
"Members of the public have come forward to report seeing a boy walking in the vicinity of West Pilton Gardens at 8:30am yesterday.
"The witnesses were in a vehicle driving down West Pilton Gardens at the time they saw the boy. They described seeing a small boy on the right hand side pavement running towards the junction with West Pilton Park.
"They noticed him because he was small in build and alone at the time.
"They said he matched the description given of Mikaeel although they also reported the child they saw was wearing a cap or hat."
Supt McAinsh said it was her understanding that Mikaeel did not like wearing a hat, and no cap or hat is thought to be missing from his home.
She added: "The area where Mikaeel lives is densely populated. At 8.30am the area would have been busy with people going about their business - dropping kids at school or going to their work.
"I would ask anyone with information who saw this child to come forward so we can either focus our attention elsewhere or confirm if it was indeed Mikaeel."
A police helicopter, sniffer dogs, coastguard and lifeboat teams have been involved in the ongoing search.
Officers said they were now deeply concerned for Mikaeel.
Responding to a police plea for help, hundreds of people turned up at the North Neighbourhood Centre in West Pilton Gardens on Friday morning to assist with efforts to find the boy.
They were briefed on where and how they should search, so that all efforts were co-ordinated and no area missed.
The charity Missing People will be showing the three-year-old's face on big screens in public places such as railway stations.
Police urged anyone with information to telephone the 0300 200 0200 number and asked local residents to check their gardens, sheds, parks and lock-ups.
The temperature dropped to about 3C in Edinburgh on Thursday night.
Police Scotland said that more than 150 people had already called the hotline.
By Dominic CascianiHome affairs correspondent, BBC News
The Child Rescue Alert system is a recent innovation in how British police forces manage the search for missing children.
It's managed by the National Crime Agency and this is only the second time it has been triggered - the first being for April Jones in October 2012.
It's highly likely that it will be relatively rarely used in the UK because most cases of disappeared children involve an evidence trail that leads to an answer.
In essence, the CRA is a mechanism to centralise possible clues and leads from the public and sift these for information needed by the senior investigating officer in charge of the hunt.
Specialist teams are on standby and ready to act on any significant information provided, they added.
The Scottish Fire and Rescue Service said crews from nearby stations were assisting in the searches. Volunteers from the British Red Cross were also involved.
A Facebook page called Missing Mikaeel Kular has had more than 10,000 likes since its creation on Thursday.
Among the members of the public who turned up to search was Kimberly MacFadyen, 34, from Davidson's Mains, who has a five-year-old son.
She said: "I would be absolutely devastated if it was my wee boy and I would want every person in Edinburgh to stop what they were doing and come to look for him."
Overnight, police issued a photograph showing the boy in the coat he was believed to be wearing when he disappeared - a beige hooded jacket with grey fur-lined hood.
He may also have been wearing black gloves with multi-coloured fingers, dark navy blue jogging bottoms, a grey pyjama top featuring an embroidered turquoise dinosaur on the chest and brown Clark shoes with two Velcro straps.
He is 3ft tall and has a faded scar on the bridge of his nose and a sore on the left side of his mouth.
Mikaeel is a nursery pupil at the Flora Stevenson Primary School.
Parents of other children at the school have been sent a letter reassuring them about safety and informing them that staff are supporting police with their inquiries.
It said: "We are keeping in touch with Mikaeel's family and our thoughts are with them at this difficult time."
Mikaeel, who is British with Asian parents, was at home with his mother and four siblings, including his twin sister, when he was last seen.


The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) has released a statement reacting to recent comments by Super Eagles coach Sunday Oliseh.

The NFF Executive Committee: "rebuked Oliseh for his unwarranted statements unbecoming of a National Team Coach in both regular and social media."
While his apology was acknowledged he was warned over future behaviour.
However the statement did not elaborate whether the possibility of a fine had been removed.
The NFF's disciplinary committee may still want to sanction him for his outburst aimed at the local media as well as his vociferous former international teammates.
Oliseh, 41, apologised to his employers after he caused controversy by posting an extraordinary eight-minute video rant on his own website to hit back at what he called the "insanity" of his critics.
In a statement the NFF added: "In line with global best practices, the Committee decided that coach Oliseh MUST henceforth report to the NFF General Secretary and the Technical and Development Committee, and should be ready to defend his entire program before the Committee, including invitation of players and training programs."
Oliseh, unpaid for five months, had initially gone public with the money problems affecting his team during the 2016 African Nations Championship (CHAN) tournament - where Nigeria failed to get past the group stages - to the embarrassment of his employers.
Nigeria face seven-time African champions Egypt in back-to-back 2017 African Cup of Nations fixtures next month.
They are two points behind group leaders Egypt after two rounds of matches with only group winners guaranteed automatic qualification to the tournament in Gabon.
Super Falcons
Meanwhile, Nigeria have begun their search for a competent high-profile expatriate coach for the women's national team after the Super Falcons failed to qualify for the Rio 2016 Olympics women's football event.
Former captain Florence Omagbemi, who is expected to assist the incoming expatriate, has been named as acting manager as the NFF hopes to name a substantive manager "within the shortest possible time".
Omagbemi will be assisted by former international teammates Perpetua Nkwocha and Ann Chiejine, with Bala Mohammed as goalkeeper trainer.
Promotion
Emmanuel Amuneke, who led the country to a fifth Fifa Under-17 World Cup in Chile last year, has been promoted to the head coach of the under-20 side.


Indian wrestler Narsingh Yadav has lodged a police complaint after claiming he tested positive for banned substances due to a "conspiracy".

The Indian government says a final report into the freestyle wrestler's case will be presented on Friday.
The 26-year-old, who failed tests on both his A and B samples, claims his food was spiked with steroids by two fellow wrestlers.
He has been provisionally suspended from competing at the Rio Olympics.
Yadav was under provisional suspension for failing a doping test on 25 June and failed a second test on 5 July. He was due to appear in front of India's National Anti-Doping Agency on Wednesday.
The wrestler's food supplements have reportedly been found to be clean in tests conducted since his allegations.
The Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) has backed Yadav, with assistant secretary Vinod Tomar saying the body believed him to be "a victim of conspiracy".
It had already identified the person behind it, Tomar claimed.
Yadav was picked over two-time Olympic medallist Sushil Kumar after he won India's quota place with a bronze medal in last year's World Championships.
Following the positive tests, Parveen Rana was named as his replacement, a move that has been approved by United World Wrestling.
On Tuesday, Rio-bound Indian shot put champion Inderjeet Singh also claimed he had failed a drugs test because of a "conspiracy" against him.
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A future Labour government would bring in a law preventing banks closing High Street branches, the party has said.

Labour said it was part of the party's plans to rejuvenate the High Street and protect local communities.
The Consumers' Association reports that 1,046 local bank branches closed in the UK between December 2015 and January 2017, Labour said.
The Conservatives claimed Labour's plans would see corporation tax at 28% and lead to Â£500bn of extra debt.
Labour said it would replace the government's Access to Banking Protocol with legislation to prevent closures.
The party said the big four banks made more than Â£11bn profit from their High Street banks in 2015, and "can afford to provide this vital customer service instead of prioritising cost-saving measures that damage communities and small businesses".
Labour points to research that suggests lending to small businesses drops by 63% in areas with recent branch closures, and the loss of a local bank branch significantly diminishes the abilities of deprived communities and households to access even basic financial services.
Shadow chancellor John McDonnell said: "High Street bank closures have become an epidemic in the last few years, blighting our town centres, hurting particularly elderly and more vulnerable customers, and local small businesses whilst making healthy profits for themselves.
"It's time our banks recognise instead that they are a utility providing an essential public service.
"Only Labour will put in place the legal obligations needed to bring banks into line and stand up for our High Streets, communities and small businesses."
In response, Conservative vice-chairman Stuart Andrew said: "Labour's plan for our High Streets would see corporation tax going back up to 28% and Â£500bn of extra debt - all under a Labour leader who said that we should not be afraid of debt or borrowing.
"Our support for High Streets has seen town centre vacancy rates come back down since Labour were in government.
"Our support for small businesses has seen start-up loans to help people launch new businesses, which has already helped 40,000 smaller firms across the country."


You can preview the story of the coming election in London by focusing on just 13 of London's 73 constituencies.

The election is won and lost in marginal seats - those which are winnable, by the BBC's definition - through a swing of 5% in the vote.
The targets below, carrying on from my first seven, are the seats identified by parties as those that must be won to achieve their overall nationwide electoral dreams.
This is the Conservatives' top London target. Labour's Glenda Jackson is exiting the stage - a decision she says is 'entirely age-driven'. She she leaves behind a majority of just 42.
The seat was a three-way marginal in 2010, with the Liberal Democrats polling under a thousand fewer than their two rivals. But will it be shared three ways for much longer?
The Labour candidate Tulip Siddiq says she can't hope to compete with her predecessor's celebrity, but she has high recognition in parts of London as the niece of the Prime Minister of Bangladesh.
The Conservative candidate Simon Marcus is a local councillor, captain of the Hampstead rugby team and the founder of a boxing academy in north London.
One might have expected to predict with some confidence the Labour reclamation of a seat lost in 2010.
If a swing of about 4% to Labour materialises across London - as suggested by one capital-focused poll in the Evening Standard in January - then this will be a Labour win.
Bob Blackman, Conservative member since 2010, is vulnerable to a swing of 3.6%. And he has just got more vulnerable. The parliamentary expenses watchdog found he had over-claimed for car travel on around 700 occasions - to the tune of about Â£1,000. He's challenging the decision.
Normal service, from Labour's point of view, was resumed last May when the mainstream national-party-backed group won back control at the town hall. But one of the defeated independent candidates Nana Asante is now standing under the banner of the Socialist Party, which may split off some support from Labour's candidate Uma Kumaran.
This is Labour's number one target in London and they need a swing of just 0.1% to overturn a majority of 106.
Labour has selected Andrew Dismore, MP here between 1997 and 2010, who has been keeping his hand in as a member on the London Assembly.
A major local issue is the future of the large West Hendon estate. Re-development plans have just been the subject of a planning inquiry. Residents have accused Barnet council of "social cleansing" over the plans.
The Conservative leader Richard Cornelius said it would be "a good result for the people of Barnet, particularly the people on the estate".
Labour have chosen Catherine West, former leader of Islington council, to contest this seat.
It should test the theory of Professor Paul Whiteley to the limit - that negativity around the Lib Dems' position may prove exaggerated, and incumbency will prove a strong counter-acting factor.
Worrying for the Lib Dems was the direction of travel suggested by the elections to Haringey council last year. Labour won 14 seats from the Lib Dems, and now hold 48 seats compared to the Lib Dems on nine.
The tendency is to see Labour's electoral hopes in terms of an arc curving westwards round from north to south, Enfield to Croydon.
But here's the seat which shows things aren't so simple. Labour are confident of taking this seat with a 5.8% swing and it certainly seems more likely at the moment than success in Battersea and Finchley & Golders Green which are also Labour targets.
This is typical commuter belt, and although it is within the M25, demographically the constituency resembles the Essex commuter towns which lie to its north-east.
There are consolations when you lose a job.
Removed from his post as health minister in 2012, Liberal Democrat Paul Burstow was able to be unconstrained in his condemnation of plans to close the maternity and A&E units at the local hospital St Helier.  It may help him in a tight tussle with the Tories who need a swing of 1.7% to overturn his 1,608 majority.
There will almost certainly be a strong incumbency factor helping Burstow. A sense of acceptance of the Lib Dem way has become reinforced in this part of south west, suburban London where the local council has been run by the party for 28 years.
They won 43 of the 54 seats in last year's borough elections, gaining 11 from the Conservatives and defeating the Tory group leader Paul Scully, who is the party's candidate against Burstow in Sutton & Cheam.
And worth watching...
What we have here is a potentially fascinating three-way marginal.
According to a recent report, it's to Thurrock that many Londoners, looking for somewhere near to settle, are choosing to relocate.
For only the second time since the war, the Conservatives won the seat in 2010 by just 92 votes.
Former BBC journalist and special adviser Polly Billington is seeking to take it back from Jackie Doyle-Price. The complicating factor is UKIP.


The chief of police in Haryana has appealed for any leads after reports that at least 10 women were raped during the recent caste protests in the northern Indian state.

Director General of Police YP Singhal said the police would take action if they received any information.
At least 30 people died and vehicles, shops and buildings were damaged.
The demonstrators were mostly from the Jat community who were protesting against India's caste quota system.
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At the scene: Defiant India protesters stand ground in Haryana
They say it puts them at a disadvantage in government jobs and at state-run educational institutes.
The Jats are currently listed as upper caste but want job quotas similar to those granted to lower castes.
"We can't confirm reports of any rapes, but we will take action if we receive any complaints," Mr Singhal told a press conference on Friday.
"We are willing to investigate but we need information," he said, asking those who had any leads to come forward.
A newspaper report on Wednesday said rioters set fire to dozens of cars on a highway connecting Haryana to Delhi during the protests, forcing their occupants to flee. The rioters then stripped and raped 10 women in the nearby fields, it added.
News television channels showed images of clothes strewn along the highway and media reports quoted local people as saying there were reports of large-scale atrocities.
Media reports alleged the police and administration authorities had advised the victims to not register any complaint to "save their honour" - charges denied by senior police and administration officials.
On Wednesday, the Punjab and Haryana High Court asked the state government to investigate the allegations.
On Thursday, the high court said the victims could directly lodge complaints with the chief judicial magistrate if they did not want to go to the police.
Large-scale violence began in Haryana on 19 February and for the next few days, members of the Jat community went on the rampage, setting fire to vehicles, shops and building belonging to non-Jats.
Demonstrations were also held in Delhi, Punjab, Himachal Pradesh and Jammu and Kashmir. Overland transport links to Haryana were brought to a halt by the protests, despite a curfew and the deployment of the army.
More than 10 million people in the capital, Delhi, had to go without water after the protesters also sabotaged a key canal supplying water to the city.
The protests were called off on Monday after Jat leaders accepted a government offer.
State authorities say the situation is now under control, all roads have been secured and the violence has subsided.


Gareth Bale's sporting influence could stretch beyond football to have a potentially significant impact on golf.

The Real Madrid and Wales winger joins a growing movement promoting formats that make the game shorter and speedier to play. The thinking is that golf, at all levels, would benefit from unearthing its own equivalent of Twenty20 cricket.
For the humble amateur there is much to enjoy from an evening playing a quicker version while professionals competing in made-for-TV contests could give golf's popularity a big boost.
A new format played over six holes, where golfers are allowed only 30 seconds to execute shots, has been launched and Bale alerted his 17.3 million Instagram followers to SPRINT6GOLF last week. It has also been endorsed by the European Tour.
Players can download a smartphone app which explains the rules and provides a stopwatch. If you take too long you receive a yellow card and a second bad time leads to a one-shot penalty.
"The idea is to speed up golf and give people a viable alternative to the long form of the game," SPRINT6GOLF founder Tom Critchley told BBC Sport.
"Can you play golf in an hour? Yes, you can.  Very simply, it is six holes on a 30-second shot-clock. The moment you put your bag down the clock starts and people get on with it."
In reality, the clock only comes into play for tee shots and on the green. Strokes in between are self-policed but by then the quicker tone has been set.
Having tried it out, it seems to work and certainly it was a fun way to have an evening's golf. With handicaps ranging from seven to 24, our fourball covered half a dozen holes, with often lengthy walks from greens to tees, in just over an hour.
But surely the bigger potential lies in the professional ranks where there is a new breed of administrators who appear open to the introduction of ambitious and exciting formats.
New European Tour boss Keith Pelley has spoken of the need to innovate and take risks going forward, while the PGA Tour and LPGA are aligning themselves with Topgolf, a driving range-based format.
"Our vision is very much to go to the professional game," Critchley added. "I want to see the best players in the world play this.
"The referees hidden away behind the trees would come to the forefront, the players will really get involved with the time pressures, we'll have the shot-clock on the television - it's made for it.
"We are starting at the grass roots level but the vision is to get to a professional tournament on the European Tour and other tours around the world."
Already, European Tour chief executive Pelley has put an emphasis on making regular events quicker to watch.
He identified this issue soon after taking over at the Wentworth-based circuit and has also won support from the new leader at the Royal and Ancient in St Andrews.
"I think it is critical," Pelley told BBC Sport. "That's why I'm so impressed with Martin Slumbers and the R&A and the way they have taken to this initiative of curbing slow play and they're behind it.
"We are totally aligned so I couldn't be happier."
The Canadian is pleased with the impact of the slow-play policy he brought in at the start of the year. "It's really working," Pelley said.
He cited evidence from the recent Spanish Open. "When we compared our times from the first two rounds the last time we played at Valderrama in 2011 to this year we were 12 and 13 minutes quicker," he revealed.
"So we are now actually increasing our monitoring programme because we have seen the success.
"I've had two or three players tell me that they have learned to play quicker, while a couple of players said to me: 'I would have liked to have taken a little more time there'.
"But at the end of the day, this is what our fans want and it's what our players wanted."
The R&A, meanwhile, has published its findings after its "Time for Golf" conference on slow play last November. Again the aim is to speed up play to make the game attractive to those battling the time pressures of modern life.
To promote shorter forms of the game, there will be a new nine hole amateur event at Royal Troon on the Saturday before this year's Open Championship.
Golf, at last, seems to be moving out of the slow lane, and a kick in that direction from one of the world's leading footballers, only helps speed up the process.


A holiday park on the coast of the Humber estuary which includes more than 300 chalets has been sold.

North East Lincolnshire Council, which owns Humberston Fitties, near Cleethorpes, approved an unnamed buyer's bid for the site.
Councillor Matthew Patrick said chalet owners had "nothing to fear from a change of ownership".
The move is a blow to residents who had hoped to run the chalet park themselves with a Â£1.5m community bid.
The sale of the site would "remove a financial constraint", said a council report.
The council said the preferred bidder "represents the best deal" and it hoped to name the winner later.
Mr Patrick said the bidder had indicated it hoped to offer leases over 25 years, rather than the current five years, to "provide the comfort of knowing chalet owners can invest in their property".
Bob Reynolds, chair of the park's Community Interest Company, said the group would take further legal advice and consult over its next move.
"Being secretive make us doubt even further what they [the council] are doing," he said.
Sarah Palmer, a chalet owner, said: "We've been kept in the dark from day one and that's added to the fear. It's a feeling of utter powerlessness."
The Fitties' chalets were first developed after World War One and came into council control in 1938.
The council first discussed offloading the site in 2014, put it up for sale in October and agreed in principle to dispose of the site in January.


You could forgive Apple's legal team for coming across a little exasperated on Monday evening.

Just hours before its day in court - in the town of Riverside, California - the most unexpected twist yet: the trial had been postponed, perhaps indefinitely.
The FBI said it had, "this past weekend", been shown a way to unlock the iPhone used by San Bernardino gunman Rizwan Farook.
The FBI has until 5 April to let the court know how it gets on. If the method doesn't work, and the phone is still locked, we'll probably return to Riverside for the hearing.
If it is successful - then, well, who knows what will happen? Uncharted waters. The case, already the most fascinating tech legal tussle for years, enters murky territory.
And here's why. Let's say, for arguments sake, that the FBI does indeed have a new, credible method of getting into the iPhone.
Where on Earth did it come from?
Apple's bewilderment is understandable given that, right up until the final hour, the FBI had insisted it had exhausted every possible route. It told Congress as much.
In a hearing earlier this month, FBI director James Comey stood firm as Congressman Darrell Issa gave him a dramatic dressing down for not pursuing a technique known as mirroring - essentially, and I'm simplifying here, duplicating the phone so repeated attempts can be made to unlock it without disturbing the original.
Mr Comey said he'd look into it - though that was 20 days ago.
Also during that congressional hearing, Mr Issa pressed Mr Comey on whether he had asked the National Security Agency (NSA) for its help.
In response, Mr Comey, making reference to the particular model of iPhone and the software contained on it, said: "We have engaged all parts of the US government to see does anybody have a way, short of asking Apple to do it, with a 5C running iOS 9 - to do this, and we do not."
Had Tuesday's hearing gone ahead, we were expecting to hear the witness testimony of Stacey Perino, an FBI electronics engineer, and Christopher Pluhar, a computer forensics professor from California State University.
Both were due to underline that Apple, and only Apple, would be able to break into the phone.
Prof Pluhar, who is a supervisory agent for the FBI, had in the past said he had been "unable to identify any other methods feasible for gaining access to the currently inaccessible data stored within the subject device".
But we're being told to put all that aside for a moment because the FBI has said it is "cautiously optimistic" a new method suggested by an as-yet unknown "outside party" could solve all its problems, allowing investigators access to the iPhone without Apple's help.
Apple's legal team has said it has no idea what that vulnerability could be - but it, of course, didn't rule out the possibility it existed.
After all, it's software - and no piece of software ever written has even been watertight.
Every time you update your phone, computer, tablet, it's often to plug a few new security holes.
So if, come 5 April, the FBI says it no longer needs Apple's help, it would mean the US government has knowledge of a cybersecurity vulnerability that potentially affects each and every iPhone out there.
Now, typically when something like this is discovered, and it happens fairly often, security researchers engage the company affected in a process called "responsible disclosure".
They tell the company privately about the flaw, and then agree how to make the issue public.
When the responsible disclosure system works, the problem is fixed before the public finds out.
It makes devices safer, and shares the discovery among everyone involved in computer security.
So keen are companies to encourage this kind of approach that many offer "bug bounties" - cash prizes for people who report new critical bugs.
Hackers that operate in this way are known as "white hat". The good guys.
The alternative - black hat - is to not tell the company about a flaw and instead sell the vulnerability on the black market to any buyer, be it for secret, state-sponsored activity, or simply for criminal means.
If the method proposed by the "outside party" works, here's the question: will the FBI engage in responsible disclosure with Apple after it has accessed the iPhone used by Farook?
If it does, Apple will surely seek to fix the flaw immediately, putting us back to square one when the inevitable next case comes around.
But if the FBI doesn't share the method, what will that do to the reputation of Apple's products if it's known the US government is openly in possession of a security flaw of this magnitude?
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Chelsea will begin their title defence at home to Burnley when the 2017-18 Premier League season kicks off on the weekend of 12-13 August.

Newly promoted Newcastle host Tottenham, while Brighton welcome Manchester City and Huddersfield visit Crystal Palace.
Spurs' first game at Wembley will be against Antonio Conte's champions on the second weekend of the season.
The precise date of games will be set once TV schedules have been decided.
The league season is set to finish on Sunday, 13 May 2018 - a week earlier than last season - with the World Cup finals in Russia starting on 14 June.
The English Football League fixtures will be released on Wednesday, 21 June, and Scotland's fixtures two days later.
Questions have been raised about Tottenham's potential to perform at Wembley after a miserable run of results there in last season's Champions League, and Mauricio Pochettino's side will have a tough first test at their temporary home.
The last time Spurs visited the national stadium was in the FA Cup semi-final, a game they lost 4-2 to this season's first visitors - Chelsea.
But it could prove a tricky opening few weeks for the defending champions too, with Chelsea hosting Everton (26 August), visiting 2015-16 winners Leicester after the international break and then welcoming Arsenal (16 September).
Arsene Wenger's Gunners have a chance to show their top-four credentials in week three when they visit Liverpool.
Another early indicator in the race for the Champions League places comes in the following round of games, with Liverpool travelling to Etihad Stadium to face Manchester City.
Europa League winners Manchester United do not face another Champions League qualifier until they visit Jurgen Klopp's Liverpool on the weekend of 14-15 October.
English football's top-flight sides will face four league games in nine days over Christmas and new year, with eight in total from 2 December to 1 January.
The final round of the Champions League group stage also takes place during that period, as traditionally does the fifth round of the League Cup.
Arsenal welcome Liverpool two days before Christmas, while Brighton go to Chelsea on Boxing Day and Newcastle host Manchester City.
West Ham make the trip across London to face Tottenham in the round of games scheduled for 30 December, with another London derby taking place on New Year's Day as Arsenal host Chelsea.
There will be no easing into life in the top flight for those promoted from the Championship, with Brighton's first game in the Premier League at home to Pep Guardiola's Manchester City.
Newcastle hammered Tottenham 5-1 in their most recent Premier League game at St James' Park, and it will be last season's runners-up Spurs who visit Rafa Benitez's side on the opening day.
Huddersfield make their Premier League debut at Crystal Palace, before hosting fellow newcomers Newcastle a week later and completing their August schedule at home to Southampton.
The Terriers' first game back in the top flight since 1972 is a repeat of their last, when they drew 0-0 at Selhurst Park in April that year.
Brighton, meanwhile, are back in English football's top division for the first time since the 1982-83 season.
Chris Hughton's side go to Leicester on the second weekend, before visiting Watford.
Chelsea did not have to contend with Champions League games on their run to the title last season, but the new Premier League fixture list means a challenging European schedule for Conte's side.
The Blues face four of last term's top six on their return from continental action, with home games against Arsenal, Manchester City and Manchester United as well as a trip to Liverpool coming immediately after Champions League fixtures.
The first Manchester derby of the season takes place at Old Trafford on the weekend of 9 December - immediately after the final Champions League group game - while City face Arsenal after the fourth group match.
Tottenham have perhaps the easiest run of fixtures following Champions League dates - at home to Swansea, Liverpool, Crystal Palace, West Brom and Stoke, plus a trip to Huddersfield.
Pep Guardiola and Jose Mourinho will get the chance to renew their rivalry on 9 December at Old Trafford, with the return fixture at Etihad Stadium on the weekend of 7 April.
This season's Merseyside derbies fall on the same weekends as Manchester's, with Everton making the short trip across Stanley Park to face Liverpool in December.
FA Cup winners Arsenal return to Wembley for the north London derby in February, with Spurs first heading to the Emirates on 18 November.
Newcastle boss Benitez goes back to Stamford Bridge to face former club Chelsea on the first weekend of December, while the Spaniard returns to another one of his former employers, Liverpool, on 3 March.
Liverpool and Manchester United first meet at Anfield on 14 October, before Klopp's side go to Old Trafford on 10 March.
After a sure thing for the opening day? The records suggest you should look no further than the champions.
With 54, Chelsea have won more points on the opening day than any other Premier League club and have not lost in their first game since defeat by Coventry in 1998.
The Blues host Burnley, a side with one of the worst records - they have lost all three of their Premier League opening-day fixtures and only scored one goal.
In fact, just one of the previous 25 reigning Premier League champions have lost their opening game in the following campaign - that was Leicester against Hull City last year.
West Ham face the possibility of having to play their first three matches of the season away from home.
The club have confirmed their second fixture, scheduled to be at home to Southampton, will have to be rearranged because of the World Athletics Championships being held at London Stadium.
The event takes place from 5-13 August, so the stadium will not be back in 'football mode' in time for the Saints game on 19 August.
The fixture could be reversed, meaning the Hammers would face three games on the road.
Meanwhile, Tottenham have said their home game against Burnley on Saturday, 26 August will need to be rescheduled as it clashes with rugby league's Challenge Cup final at Wembley.
There are 2,036 matches across the Premier League and Football League over a nine-month period.
Travel plans, rail and road networks and festive holidays all play a role in deciding when the matches are played.
But how does the process work?
But if there are any problems, they go back and start again - and changing one match can require 40 other changes.
In the 2012-13 season, the Metropolitan Police did not want high-profile matches played until after 8 September because of the Olympics and Paralympics.
The review process incorporates representatives from all the leagues, the FA and also a fans' representative, from the Football Supporters' Federation.
Find out more here.


There is room for argument over whether the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) is too cautious in referring suspected miscarriages of justice to the Court of Appeal, as the Commons Justice Committee has said.

Certainly, the increased funding the committee has also recommended would make it easier for the CCRC to do its job.
But, as the Commons committee acknowledges, there is no point in referring more cases if the appeal judges are simply going to throw them out.
So the question at the heart of the MPs' report is whether we should change the grounds on which a conviction may be quashed.
And that, as the committee says, should be a matter for the Law Commission, which advises the government on reform of the law.
At present, the only ground on which appeal judges in England and Wales can overturn a conviction is that they think it is "unsafe".
A former lord chief justice said in 2002 that this did not allow appeal judges to "usurp the role of the jury as the body charged by law to resolve issues of fact and determine guilt".
Some critics argue that appeal judges should be more willing to overturn convictions if there is a "lurking doubt" about the case.
They say the Court of Appeal attaches too much weight to the verdict of the jury - which is only as good as the evidence it receives.
Supporters of the present system fear that public confidence in jury trial would be undermined if appeal judges were more willing to overturn jury verdicts.
Critics respond that Parliament undermined confidence in juries when it created the Court of Criminal Appeal (as it was then called) in 1907.
Public confidence is more likely to be undermined, they add, if wrongful convictions go uncorrected.
Senior judges were unwilling to debate the law with MPs.
But their thinking is revealed in written evidence by Lord Judge, the former lord chief justice.
He said his successor, Lord Thomas of Cwmgiedd, agreed with it.
Lord Judge recalled a witness appearing before him who had once given "beautifully crafted evidence" and then "spoiled the impact by blushing each time he told a lie".
The former chief justice pointed out that neither the CCRC nor the Court of Appeal had the advantage of seeing witnesses and observing their body language in the way that a jury had.
"That advantage cannot be ignored or overlooked," Lord Judge said, "and must be taken into account in any analysis of the safety of the conviction."
There were many cases in which juries had to decide whether it was the complainant or the defendant who was lying. Appeal judges simply could not tell this by reading a written transcript of the evidence.
Even so, Lord Judge insisted, the verdict would be quashed if the appeal court was left in doubt about the safety of a conviction.
At present, cases are referred if the CCRC thinks there is a "real possibility" the conviction will be overturned because of new evidence or arguments.
Lord Judge dismissed a suggestion the CCRC should go further and announce it had doubts about a jury's verdict.
If the appeal court disagreed, there would then be two conflicting decisions by public bodies.
But the former chief justice did say the CCRC could refer a case to the Court of Appeal "on the basis that there is a real possibility that the verdict of the jury is against the weight of the evidence".
The CCRC has welcomed the suggestion the Law Commission should look at this again.
But rewording the "unsafe" test is not likely to make much difference.
In the end, it all boils down to deciding who was telling the truth.


Liverpool playmaker Philippe Coutinho is not for sale, despite interest from Barcelona, says manager Jurgen Klopp.

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Klopp said the Reds are not "a selling club" following reports they rejected a £72m bid for the Brazilian in July.
It comes amid news Barcelona are considering reporting Paris St-Germain over their pursuit of forward Neymar, who has a £198m release clause.
"If you say he is not available to be sold, where is the interpretation?" Klopp reiterated on Monday.
"The word 'not' means there is no interpretation. There is nothing new."
Coutinho, 25, captained Liverpool to a 3-0 friendly victory over Hertha Berlin on Saturday and is set to feature against Bayern Munich in the Audi Cup on Tuesday.
He scored 14 goals last season, having spent six weeks out with an ankle injury, and signed a five-year deal with the Reds in January.
It was the Brazil international's most productive season since he arrived at Anfield from Inter Milan for £8.5m in January 2013.


Plans to raise the status of vocational courses in sixth forms and colleges in England have been announced.

A "technical baccalaureate" is to be introduced showing young people's abilities in maths, literacy and a high level vocational qualification.
This will be a performance measure for schools and evidence of credible skills for students to show employers.
Skills minister Matthew Hancock said the technical baccalaureate would be a "mark of achievement".
But Labour's education spokesman Stephen Twigg said: "Seven months after Labour announced plans for a technical baccalaureate, the government is today trying to catch up."
The "Tech Bacc", launched on Monday by Mr Hancock and Education Secretary Michael Gove, is intended to reinforce the value of technical and vocational training and qualifications taken by 16 to 19-year-olds.
It is aimed at teenagers who might want qualifications for jobs in areas such as information technology, construction, retail, hospitality and digital media.
It will not be another separate qualification, but will be evidence that a young person has a particular set of employer-friendly skills.
The Tech Bacc will require students to have three elements - qualifications in maths and literacy and a "high quality" vocational qualification.
These vocational qualifications could be in anything from engineering to hairdressing, but will be taught at a level of difficulty which is meant to show that pupils are able to carry out "complex and non-routine" skills, on a par with A-levels.
These so-called Level 3 vocational qualifications were taken by about 185,000 students last year.
There is a consultation taking place to decide which vocational qualifications should be retained - after complaints that there were too many insubstantial qualifications, which carried little weight with employers.
For schools and colleges, the Tech Bacc will become a league table performance measure from 2017, in the way that schools are measured by the percentage of pupils who have achieved academic English Baccalaureate subjects.
A proposal for a Tech Bacc has previously been put forward by Labour's education spokesman, Stephen Twigg.
Responding to the government announcement, he said that Labour's version would have been a "gold standard" available to all pupils.
"David Cameron and Michael Gove have spent the last three years undermining technical education - damaging the quality of apprenticeships, downgrading the engineering diploma and narrowing the curriculum so skills are side-lined.
"The government should be judged on their actions so far, not on their words today."
The idea of a Tech Bacc has also been supported by former education ministers Labour's Lord Adonis and the Conservatives' Lord Baker.
Neil Carberry, the CBI's director for employment and skills said this was a "big step in the right direction".
"Including the Tech Bacc in existing league tables will help put vocational subjects on a par with academic A-levels.
"Business  prefers this approach, rather than creating another new qualification which would struggle for recognition - like the Diploma did. We hope this will prove to be a staging point towards our ultimate goal of rigorous vocational A-levels."
Christine Blower, head of the National Union of Teachers, said that "vocational qualifications should be part of a wider 14-19 integrated system of education where the emphasis is on the opportunity to study general education, specialist areas and vocational learning. This constant tinkering with 14-19 education perpetuates unnecessary divisions."
Skills Minister Matthew Hancock said: "We want an education system in which everyone can reach their potential.
"Our reforms to post-16 qualifications, including the introduction of the new Tech Bacc will do that. They will incentivise the development of high-quality courses and incentivise schools and colleges to offer the courses that get young people on in life.
"We expect all bright students who want to go into technically-skilled jobs or apprenticeships to aim for the Tech Bacc."


A daredevil pensioner has celebrated his 80th birthday by doing a wing walk over the Cotswold countryside.

17 August 2016 Last updated at 18:36 BST
John Brown, from Swindon, took to the skies near Cirencester strapped to a 1940's bi-plane.
He did the wing walk in memory of his wife Thelma, who died a few years ago, and also to raise money for Wiltshire Air Ambulance.
"Fantastic - I wouldn't have missed it for the world," he said afterwards. "It was so exhilarating and nothing I'd ever experienced before it was absolutely phenomenal."


Inspectors had to intervene to stop two patients on trolleys in a corridor colliding at a "severely overcrowded" A&E, a report has revealed.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) visited Portsmouth's Queen Alexandra Hospital and gave the trust a "requires improvement" rating.
Another patient with breathing difficulties had to be resuscitated after a 25-minute wait on a trolley.
After notices were issued inspectors said improvements had been made.
Patients with "a suspected broken hip, chest pain and an infectious disease" were subjected to long waits.
The report said: "One patient with a head injury got up, unobserved, to leave the department and an inspector had to prevent him from falling and colliding with another elderly patient on a trolley."
During the inspection, a patient who had previously had a heart attack was brought in by ambulance with breathing difficulties.
After waiting 25 minutes for an assessment they were rushed to the resuscitation room when their condition deteriorated.
Patients sometimes had to wait as long as 14 hours to be admitted to a ward, inspectors said.
The national average wait between being brought to hospital by ambulance and an initial assessment is 15 minutes.
An average of 25 minutes was recorded at the Queen Alexandra.
Portsmouth Hospitals NHS Trust was rated as "outstanding" in relation to being caring and effective but needed to improve providing "safe, responsive and well-led services".
CQC chief Prof Sir Mike Richards said: "We saw severe overcrowding in the accident and emergency department which meant that some patients with serious conditions had waited over an hour to be assessed.
"There was a high risk of their condition deteriorating during this time."


The UK's first transsexual parliamentary politician Nikki Sinclaire has spent much of her life fighting battles - personal and professional.

As she is cleared of misconduct in a public office and fraud charges the BBC looks at her political and private life.
The title of Nikki Sinclaire's second book, Never Give Up, is a clear indication of her determination.
"Because of the things that have happened to me, I have this thing about injustice. I feel I have to stand up whether it's myself, or other people," she told the BBC following its launch.
"I hate it when authorities put down ordinary people and I feel the need to stand up for them."
Her resolve emerged at a very young age. She was just eight years old when she became interested in politics while watching the news after school.
But it was a couple of years later, during the Winter of Discontent, that her interest really peaked.
"My father supported the unions and I would question him - why this conflict? I thought the unions were supposed to be for the working man, and also the Labour Party?
"He could never answer that satisfactorily to me. Coming from a very poor, working-class council estate, I began to think 'why don't we have these things?'
Her "very working class" father was "perturbed" when he learned of her admiration for Margaret Thatcher.
As her political obsession intensified in her teens, so did a very private struggle.
Since the age of three, she believed she was trapped in the wrong body.
It wasn't until she reached 16 that Ms Sinclaire confided her feelings to a doctor, spilling out "16 years of hurt", only to be told it was a "fantasy".
Undeterred, she eventually underwent gender reassignment surgery at 23.
A staunch Eurosceptic, she became an active member of UKIP and held many positions within the party. After 10 years - and two defeats in UK general elections - she was successfully voted in as the party's MEP for the West Midlands in June 2009.
But her success within UKIP was short-lived. Just nine months later, in March 2010, Ms Sinclaire was expelled from the party after refusing to take part in a multi-national group it had joined in the European Parliament, citing some members "homophobic views".
It was a blow she was not going to accept easily. In December that year, having taken her former bosses to a tribunal, a judge found in her favour when UKIP failed to file a defence in time.
As an independent MEP, Ms Sinclaire continued her tireless campaign for a referendum on Europe.
In 2011, she gathered 100,000 names to a petition, which led to a Conservative rebellion of about 70 MPs, and "forced David Cameron to the despatch box", a proud Ms Sinclaire later told the BBC.
Again, the joy was short-lived. By February 2012, West Midlands Police had begun their fraud investigation and arrested Ms Sinclaire on suspicion of defrauding the European Parliament.
"The allegations at hand are old allegations from a disgruntled ex-employee", Ms Sinclaire said in a statement, adding she had "nothing to hide".
The following year, Ms Sinclaire decided to reveal her gender reassignment secret, which she said was the result of threats from UKIP and journalists.
She later went on to say she had been "overwhelmed" by the support from members of the public.
In June 2014, Ms Sinclaire lost her seat to Labour's Neena Gill and a month later, more than two years after her first police interview, she was charged with money laundering and misconduct in public office.
She was accused of making false and dishonest submissions for travelling expenses and transferring the proceeds of fraud through a bank account - something the politician said she "strongly refuted".
It took another two years for the case to come to court, ironically, scheduled just days after Ms Sinclaire's British independence dream came true.
The day after the referendum, there was not a hint of the impending court proceedings on her Twitter account.
Instead, as she celebrated the victory, her doggedness shone through once again.
"We did it Maggie," she tweeted. "We did it. We got our country back. I never gave up."