A woman whose experience of abortion placed the issue back in the courts, has said she is "devastated" by the Court of Appeal's most recent ruling.

In 2013, Sarah Ewart travelled to England for a termination after doctors said her unborn child had no chance of survival outside the womb.
Such a diagnosis, known as fatal foetal abnormality, is not grounds for a legal abortion in Northern Ireland.
Northern Ireland's abortion law is much stricter than the rest of the UK.
In 2015, the High Court ruled the law breached the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) by not allowing abortion in cases of fatal foetal abnormality or rape.
The justice department and the Northern Ireland attorney general challenged the ruling.
On Thursday, the Court of Appeal in Belfast upheld that appeal, ruling it is not up to the courts to decide on abortion law in Northern Ireland, but up to the Stormont assembly.
Speaking to BBC News NI's Talkback programme, Ms Ewart said the ruling was "totally devastating" but she would not give up.
She was, however, encouraged by the court inviting legal submissions for the case to go to the Supreme Court.
Ms Ewart's mother, Jane Christie, echoed her daughter's sentiments.
"We didn't see this coming. We have always been very definite in what we're about. This would be for women in our own circumstances, women like Sarah - a medical termination.
"We can't get our heads around it," she said.
The court ruled abortion law change was a matter for Stormont, however, Mrs Christie questioned when this would happen, considering the current Stormont stalemate.
She said: "The way things are looking, I don't see how they can do this. How can they make decisions when they aren't there?
"Women can't pause their pregnancy while they're looking for this help.
"Hopefully we'll have Stormont up and running again - the support is there and there's a very small amount of people who don't want this change to happen".
Ms Ewart added: "Women are still going and getting in touch with us and I don't want this to happen again.
"Hopefully Stormont will pull through."
Also on Thursday, the chancellor announced that women from Northern Ireland will be able to get abortions on the NHS for free in England.
Ms Ewart welcomed the move but said it was unfortunate that women from Northern Ireland found themselves in this position in the first place.
She said it was just a pity that women could not be treated closer to home.
"It is a good thing that we are now going to get {access to abortion} in the hospitals across the water, instead of a {private abortion} clinic," she said.
"But, at the same time, if it's ok for us to go over there and have it on the NHS, then, really, it should be OK for us to have it here with our own medics in our own hospitals."
Ms Ewart told the BBC she paid Â£1,350 for her abortion in England in 2013, but when flights, accommodation and other travel costs were added, the whole procedure cost her a total of Â£2,100.
She acknowledged that not all women from Northern Ireland could afford to travel for an abortion.
"I'm extremely lucky that I have the family and friends around me who were able to support me to go away, not everybody has the option."
Just a few weeks after Ms Ewart's wedding she found out she was pregnant - it was planned and she was delighted.
Speaking to BBC's Victoria Derbyshire programme, before Thursday's judgement, she explained how she found out her baby had a fatal foetal abnormality.
"People had talked about the 3D scans so we decided to get one privately," she said.
"The stenographer had put the baby on the screen and was telling us, "There's the legs, oh, you're having a wee girl".
"She went up the body and when she got to the baby's head there was nothing from above the baby's eyes - there was no skull or brain formation".
Ms Ewart's baby had Anencephaly. It occurs in about six of every 10,000 births. There is no treatment for it.
"The baby wasn't going to survive, the minute the umbilical cord was cut, the baby would have passed away.
"When I realised that, I felt I couldn't continue on for nine months with people asking me when I was due and about my pregnancy - to not have a baby at the end of it. I felt I couldn't go through with it."
She told doctors that they wanted a "medical termination" .
"We were shocked. They said:  'Sorry with the law here we can't help you - you would have to go across the water'".
At 21 weeks pregnant, Ms Ewart travelled to London to have her abortion which she described as an "awful experience".
"I should have been at home with my family and friends around me, supporting me," she said.
"Politicians failed to help women like me and me so we are hoping we will get the help through the court".
Unlike the rest of the UK, abortion is only permitted in Northern Ireland if a woman's life is at risk or there is a permanent or serious risk to her mental or physical health.
It is unlawful to perform a termination of pregnancy, under section 58 of the Offences against the Person Act 1861, unless on these grounds.
The punishment for breaking the law is life imprisonment.


Greater Manchester Police (GMP) risks "being a reactive force" if up to 400 officers are axed to save £41m next year, the chief constable said.

Sir Peter Fahy is concerned the force "will not be able to deploy enough officers and PCSOs into the local community to gather intelligence".
GMP has lost 1,100 officers since 2010, leaving about 6,800.
Policing Minister Mike Penning said there was "no question" police would have enough resources to do their work.
In 2010, GMP said 3,100 jobs - 1,500 officers and 1,600 civilian workers - had to go over a four-year period to meet the government's 25% spending cuts.
Sir Peter said: "It's really pretty stark now.
"I can't reduce much further the number of officers for instance investigating rapes and domestic violence.
"We then have to look at day-to-day neighbourhood policing and that is the risk - we end up being a reactive police force.
"We need to be in communities, preventing things before they happen."
Tony Lloyd, Greater Manchester's Police and Crime Commissioner, said crimes including violent crime and domestic violence rose by 8% this year.
He said: "We have already lost 1,100 police officers from the streets of Greater Manchester and this year we are facing another cut of £41m, which [means] there will be hundreds of fewer police officers on our streets.
"To be losing almost half the policing budget by 2020 is unpalatable."
Ian Hanson, chairman of the area's Police Federation, which represents rank-and-file officers, said: "We are in a position where we are going to ask ourselves 'Can we afford the luxury of community policing?'
"In the 1970s and 80s we went to crime after it happened."
He added: "We've got one of the best police forces in the country and now we're under threat and once it's gone, it's gone."
Mr Penning said: "While we acknowledge that the police funding settlement is challenging there is no question that the police will still have the resources to do their important work.
"What matters is how officers are deployed, not how many of them there are in total.
"The reduction in crime nationwide demonstrates there is no simple link between officer numbers and crime levels, the visibility of the police in the community and the quality of service provided."
He said the government has cut red tape and scrapped unnecessary targets.


He founded the world's biggest and most powerful social network, a site that has shaped the way more than a billion of us communicate every day - every hour, even.

She is a Harvard educated doctor who, unlike in the film portrayal of Facebook's beginnings, has been by Mark's side for much of the last nine years.
Now, Mark Zuckerberg and Dr Priscilla Chan are Silicon Valley's most influential power couple.
And that's because, over the past year, Mark Zuckerberg has grown up.
He's no longer the nerdy, dorky techie in a hoodie who cut a nervous, awkward figure when speaking in public.
He's now a man that wears - gasp - a suit when welcoming, and being welcomed in by, heads of state.
He's a man who learned Mandarin in what seemed like just a few months, using his new language to impress a room full of Chinese students - oh, and Xi Jinping, the Chinese president.
And he's Dad to a baby girl now too, let's not forget. Max was born during Thanksgiving week, the couple announced on Tuesday.
Zuckerberg to take two months' paternity leave
Facebook hits one billion users in a day
Facebook paid Â£4,327 UK corporation tax in 2014
Meanwhile, his site's valuation continues to soar. In business matters, he's made several shrewd acquisitions. Instagram, WhatsApp, and virtual reality firm Oculus Rift - all purchases that cemented Facebook's longevity, even if the site itself isn't cool with the kids anymore.
All this while embodying something quite rare in Silicon Valley - a healthy work-life balance.
Following Mark Zuckerberg on Facebook is like watching a friend on a gap year. Barely a day passes without Zuckerberg reflecting on the meaning of life while taking pictures of the Taj Mahal.
And with the birth of his daughter, Max, Zuckerberg will be taking the unusual step (in the US at least) of taking two months paternity leave.
He joins a recent trend of US tech companies taking the family needs of staff seriously. It might just kick-start a change in mood across the entire country - paid paternity and maternity leave is a given in much of the development world, but not in the USA.
Yet the big announcement today - for the rest of us, at least - is about the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative.
Following in the footsteps of Bill and Melinda Gates, whose foundation has backed various charitable efforts for more than 15 years, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative says it seeks to back programs that promote "equality, education and advancing human capability".
It will be funded by Zuckerberg's shares. He says he plans to give away 99% of his stock over the course of his lifetime, at a rate of around $1bn-worth each year.
What will it do? That's to be seen, although in making the announcement Facebook was keen to point out that Zuckerberg's previous charitable endeavours included multi-million dollar donations to schools and hospitals, and money towards preventing the spread of Ebola.
But it's not a flawless record, by any means. Many will question Zuckerberg's sincerity when, while donating to schools on one hand, his company is paying miniscule taxes in some of its biggest markets. Take the UK, for example, where in its last financial year the company paid just Â£4,327 ($6,643) in corporation tax.
And then there's the political influence.
In the information pack about the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, it notes that the money will be used for "funding non-profit organizations, making private investments and participating in policy debates, in each case with the goal of generating positive impact in areas of great need".
Silicon Valley's definition of "great need" may differ greatly to what the rest of the world thinks needs to be done, while "participating in policy debates" is another way of saying "lobbying", of course.
And we may never be told what those "private investments" are.
Mark Zuckerberg's internet.org project, which is about bringing internet connectivity to the next billion people, has been caught up in controversy. Small businesses in the developing world say internet.org is little more than a thinly-veiled way for Facebook to rapidly grow their user base.
Still, Mark Zuckerberg is 31. Priscilla Chan is 30. Max is merely days old. The Chan Zuckerberg story still has decades in which to shape itself.
Some will take a dim view of a data collection company expanding its influence into new, highly-political territories.
Others will applaud a very rich, young couple for taking some of technology's billions out from the Valley and into needy causes.
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Alexander Sheps is one of Russia's best-known psychics.

23 October 2015 Last updated at 15:54 BST
He is a winner of the The Battle of the Psychics, a reality TV show, where psychics compete to demonstrate the power of the occult.
you can watch it in the UK on the BBC NEws at these times channel and on BBC World News at these times.


(Close): Mining shares pulled the FTSE 100 higher, with Anglo American leading the way boosted by hopes demand for metals in China will increase.

The FTSE 100 closed 51.83 points, or 0.8%, higher at 6,405.35.
Anglo American shares rose 8.5%, with Antofagasta up 7.6% and silver miner Fresnillo up 5.1%, after the price of silver hit a 10-month high.
Hopes that China's economy is not slowing as quickly as feared helped to support the sector.
"With Chinese data clearly showing tentative signs of a resurgence, there is a feeling that the commodities sector as a whole will begin recover despite ongoing reservations over the crude oil glut," said Joshua Mahony, market analyst at IG.
Shares in Primark owner Associated British Foods rose 1.9% after reporting a small rise in half-year profits.
Underlying pre-tax profits rose 4% to Â£466m for the 24 weeks to 27 February, with sales down 2% to Â£6.1bn.
On the currency markets, the pound rose nearly a cent against the dollar to $1.4384, and was up more than half a euro cent against the euro at â‚¬1.2653.


DJ Casey Kasem has still not been laid to rest a month after his death due to a legal wrangle amongst his family.

A Washington state judge granted a temporary court order to Kasem's daughter, preventing his second wife from removing his remains from a funeral home in Tacoma.
Kerri Kasem is seeking authorisation for a post-mortem on her father.
Kasem was a voiceover artist and host of the American Top 40, and the voice of Shaggy in the Scooby-Doo cartoons.
He died on 15 June after suffering from a form of dementia, with his care at the centre of a serious rift between his family.
Before Kasem's death, a judge granted an order allowing his daughter to withhold food, liquids and medication from him against the wishes of his wife of 34 years.
His daughter has expressed concerns that his body could be cremated or taken to Canada by his widow Jean, negating the possibility of a post-mortem.
The radio host's wife has rights over his remains, while his daughter held the medical conservatorship in the final part of his life.
A small, private memorial service for Kasem was held in California last month, but his second wife and their daughter Liberty did not attend.
The children from the 82-year-old's first marriage are hoping to bury him in California in accordance with his final wishes.
The judge moved to ensure Kasem's body was not taken from the funeral home while a decision is being considered about allowing a post-mortem examination to take place.
The broadcaster began his career in the 1950s and found fame with the chart programme.
He famously ended his broadcasts with his signature sign-off: "Keep your feet on the ground and keep reaching for the stars."
After spells hosting countdown shows under other titles, he returned to American Top 40 in the 1990s and retired from the airwaves in 2009.
Around the world, his radio rundown was broadcast in 50 countries and he was known for the spin-off TV show America's Top 10.
In Scooby-Doo, Kasem voiced the character of Shaggy from the first series in 1969 until 1995, and again from 2002 until 2009.


While the rally in Paris reflects the determination of its inhabitants to bounce back from the horror of the recent attacks, deep divisions of French society cannot be glossed over easily.

The urge to demonstrate is the urge for mutual reassurance.
When terrible things happen, first we rush for shelter. Then we re-emerge to show each other that we are all still alive.
It is probably what cavemen did when the sabre-toothed tigers passed by.
This week in Paris, many people felt the instinct to hasten home. Murder stalked the streets.
At one point on Thursday we heard that the Kouachi brothers were driving back to town. There were police marksmen at the city gates.
Something primal said: Stay with your loved ones.
But then it was over. And now the urge is to come back on to the streets and to reclaim the land.
That is what it has felt like through the extraordinary scenes of Sunday.
People have made the comparison with the Liberation demonstrations in 1944, and it is apt.
It is apt not just in terms of numbers, but also in how at that moment too French men and women were putting down a marker:  France is ours.
But people demonstrate also because they are afraid.
People demonstrate for causes that they feel are under threat. Demonstrating reveals our insecurity.
We demonstrate because we want the hope that comes from knowing there are others who feel as we do.
In France, national unity was the theme of Sunday's monster rally.
But by the logic of demonstrations, national unity is therefore not nearly as secure as the outpouring of mass emotion would tend to suggest.
If you want a sobering counterblast to the dominant mood, have a look at the "Je ne suis pas Charlie" Facebook page. It has received more than 21,000 likes in the last few days.
The mainly Muslim French people who have given a thumbs-up to the page are not supporters of violence. The vast majority have no truck with the Kouachis and Coulibaly.
But they also make clear they will not take part in a national movement that backs people who insulted the Prophet Muhammad.
Over and again they express their anger at what they see as double standards:
Why so much fuss over 17 dead when thousands have died in Gaza and Syria?
Why is it all right for Charlie Hebdo to mock Islam when the controversial comic Dieudonne M'bala M'bala is prosecuted for mocking Jews? Why is one defined as "inciting hatred" and not the other?
Then there are the schools in the high-immigration banlieues where the minute's silence on Thursday in memory of the Charlie Hebdo victims was interrupted by pupils or not observed at all.
France-Info - the national news radio station that normally plays down dissent in the banlieues - ran an extensive report on it, with quotes from distressed teachers.
And if you really want to be shocked, there is a "Je suis Kouachi" hashtag which was briefly trending on Twitter on Saturday.
All of which only goes to prove that there are many French men and women who feel their primary attachment is to Islam, not to the Enlightenment values of post-18th Century Europe.
They feel a constant sense of humiliation, and where they can, they strike back. Normally in petty acts of insubordination. But sometimes in terror.
So France is not united, and the danger is real.
But that is why demonstrations matter. People take part because they work. Seeing such vast numbers of people - of all faiths and backgrounds - united behind a single idea was indeed a moving and uplifting experience.
At the end of a horrid week, morale is back. For a time at least, we are reassured.


England captain Charlotte Edwards says the Women's Ashes is still "wide open" despite Australia claiming a 4-2 lead with a win in the third ODI.

Australia won by 89 runs at Worcester and victory in the Test match at Canterbury next month would put them on the brink of regaining the Ashes.
But Edwards said: "Test cricket is a format that suits our style, and we will be looking to come back strongly.
"This Ashes series is still wide open - there is a long way to go yet."
If all the remaining matches - comprising one Test and three Twenty20 internationals - are completed, England must win the Test and one T20, draw the Test and win two T20s, or win all three T20s to retain the Ashes.
Edwards admitted England were second best in the ODI series, which Australia won 2-1.
"Unfortunately we have been a bit inconsistent and ultimately outplayed during the last two matches," she said.
"Australia have shown why they are the current world champions in this format.
"We now have a few days off to recharge, before joining back up as a squad at the National Cricket Performance Centre in Loughborough to prepare for the Test match."


The Brexit bill has completed its progress through the House of Commons - and is winging its way to the Lords.

Here are five more takeouts from the bill...
For all the ominous rumblings that vast armies of guerrilla pro-EU Conservative MPs were poised to ambush and annihilate the Article 50 Bill, the government majority never came under serious threat in any of the votes at committee stage or third reading (and, of course, there was a thumping majority at second reading, too).
The only time the government whips needed more than the fingers of one hand to count the rebels came on the "meaningful vote amendment" put by Labour, with the aim of ensuring that Parliament was not presented with a Hobson's Choice between accepting whatever deal had been negotiated by the government, or leaving the EU and trading with it on World Trade Organisation terms.
Seven Tories broke ranks on that issue - but others were prepared to accept the assurances offered by the Brexit Minister David Jones, which were just enough to splinter the evidently fragile unity in the Tory Remain camp.
The former Euro-rebels (the new Brexit establishment) scoffed at their performance…."soft, complacent, effete, useless, leverage-denying dolts" was the verdict of one.
Another veteran Brexiteer mused that they were mostly novice plotters, lacking the case hardening acquired from years of backbench conspiracy.
On this showing the government whips have little to fear.
Looking for a quiet spot to record an interview last week, I opened a committee room door and found myself staring into the alarmed faces of the entire Labour Remain faction, in plenary session.
The tableau reminded me of those 17th Century prints of the Gunpowder Plot….but what is quite clear is that the Labour Remainers are a cohesive organised group in a way that their Conservative opposite numbers can only envy.
Of course, they've had plenty of practice, because most have been opponents of their current leadership from day one, and there is more than a whiff of anti-Corbynism in their activities. But now Labour has a party within a party, capable of out-organising the official frontbench, which is considerably less experienced - and the fault-line is there for all to see.
The government's acceptance of a parliamentary vote on the final Brexit deal does, potentially, set up a very big parliamentary moment, two years or so down the road, when that deal is done - and people love to pencil in the date for a hoped-for parliamentary Armageddon.
But, but, but...
First, it may be a semi-final deal, with the formal exit package from the EU and some package of transitional measures, while negotiations for the final post-divorce trade arrangements rumble on, which would rather take the heat out of proceedings.
Secondly, the can keeps getting kicked down the road. There were warnings that Remainers would derail the Brexit Bill at second reading, then it was going to be amended to jelly at committee; now it's Europhile peers who're supposed to wield the dagger….
Or maybe the Empire will strike back when the Great Repeal Bill, the next big Brexit measure, hits the Commons. People keep talking up battles ahead, which then keep fizzling out.
Of course, no-one knows what the political and economic backdrop will be, when the Brexit vote comes, but I'm increasingly wary of oft-repeated, oft-disproved predictions that next time it really will be a proper battle.
While the not-so-grand conflict between Brexiteers and Remainers has dominated the headlines (in England at least), the SNP has been playing its usual smart tactical game, to dramatise its message that the Scottish government's plan to remain inside the EU single market is being ignored by Westminster.
Their MPs are quite happy to clash with ministers and deputy speakers to highlight their grievances - and SNP MPs have become adept at generating little social media moments which convey their position better than any speech.
Their whistling of the EU anthem, Beethoven's Ode to Joy, in the Commons Chamber was a case in point…. It was a bit wacky, a breach of stuffy Westminster protocol, eye-catching, ear-catching and captured in a YouTube minute - with a rebuke from the Deputy Speaker, Lindsay Hoyle, for dessert.
What's not to like, when your narrative is precisely that Westminster is archaic and forever shutting out the Scottish viewpoint? And the SNP shadow leader of the House is threatening to sing Flower of Scotland next time….be afraid; be very afraid.
Conservative MPs are already thundering out their warnings to the House of Lords not to mess with the Brexit bill.
Their lordships are reacting with a trace of rather Gallic ennui. They're used to being threatened, to the point of being slightly bored by it.
And there are peers on the red benches who're aiming amendments at the bill. Labour plans to have another pop at passing their "meaningful vote" amendment; the Joint Committee on Human Rights' proposal to guarantee the status of EU nationals resident in the UK may fly once more, and the Lib Dems will certainly want to propose a second referendum, more in the hope of positioning themselves as the party of Remain than in the expectation of getting it through.
But even if a rainbow coalition of peers - Labour, Lib Dems, Pro-EU Tories and crossbenchers - was assembled to amend the bill, I doubt the House could nerve itself to insist on its amendments, if they were once struck down by MPs.
So while they would certainly have annoyed ministers, they would not have delayed the bill by more than a couple of days.
And it is a reasonable calculation to make, that with Brexit in full swing, ministers simply couldn't afford the parliamentary time to push through full-blooded, contested Lords reform.
Easier to live with the occasional nuisance of an obstreperous Upper House, than to waste a year and a half on reforming it, while imperilling all other legislation.


Rockets fired from northern Syria have killed four Syrians, three of them children, in the Turkish border town of Kilis, local officials say.

The five Katyusha rockets came from part of Syria controlled by Islamic State (IS) militants, the Kilis governor's office said.
Turkish artillery fired back at IS positions across the border, Turkey's Hurriyet news daily reported.
Kilis has a Syrian refugee camp and shells have landed from Syria before.
Four of the rockets hit residential areas of Kilis - a town where an estimated 120,000 Syrian refugees outnumber local Turks.
A Turkish citizen and five other Syrians were also wounded in the rocket fire.
Cross-border artillery fire has hit Kilis almost daily recently. Twelve people were wounded there on 11 April, then the following day two people were killed and six wounded in a similar strike, Hurriyet reported.


Junior doctors in England have overwhelmingly voted in favour of going on strike in their dispute with ministers over a new contract.

Some 98% voted in favour of a full strike and 99% in favour of action just short of a full strike.
The first walk-out will start on 1 December with another two dates earmarked for later in the month.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt said the doctors' decision was "very, very disappointing" news.
And he rejected calls for talks to be held at conciliation service Acas, although he would not rule it out completely.
"Study after study has shown that our mortality rates at weekends are too high," he said.
"We put forward a very fair offer for doctors, which will see pay go up for three-quarters of junior doctors. We wanted to talk about this to them, but in the end they have chosen to strike so we will have to put in contingency plans."
He also said that the government's offer had been "misrepresented".
The British Medical Association (BMA) said it was "inevitable" disruption would be caused to patients as a result of the strikes, but maintained it had been left with no choice as the contract was "unsafe".
The action is likely to lead to the cancelling and rescheduling of thousands of routine appointments, tests and operations with the NHS forced to prioritise emergency cases.
The union has asked the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration Service (Acas) to get involved to offer independent arbitration - something the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, which normally stays out of politics, has said it supports.
The dates for industrial action are:
The BMA balloted just over 37,700 members - over two-thirds of the workforce - and 76% took part in the ballot.
Paris attacks: The young doctor who treated first casualties
Services will be disrupted, make no mistake about that. But the British Medical Association argues the aim of doctors taking part will not be to maximise that - as is the goal in many other industrial disputes.
On the first day of action that has been earmarked, junior doctors will still staff emergency care. On the other two dates, they will walk out in the knowledge there will be other medics - consultants, staff doctors and locums - that can plug the gaps.
Whether that will be enough for hard-pressed emergency services will be argued over ahead, during and after any walkout.
What is certain, though, is routine services will suffer. Hip operations, knee replacement and routine clinics will have to be cancelled.
In fact, as happened the last time doctors took action in 2012, over pensions, expect hospitals to start rearranging services in advance.
The vote comes after thousands of doctors have taken part in a series of protests in recent months in the contract dispute.
Talks broke down last year, and ministers have since said they will impose the new contract from next year.
As the ballot papers went out a fortnight ago, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt made a last ditch attempt to persuade doctors to accept the offer.
He wrote to all the doctors in the country with a fresh offer.
It included a promise of an 11% rise in basic pay, but the BMA said this was misleading as it was offset by curbs to other elements of the pay package, including unsociable hours payments.
Ministers have promised to protect pay for the first three years of the deal.
But the BMA has said there are insufficient safeguards to stop hospitals overworking doctors and they could lose out financially in the long term.
55,000
junior doctors in England
37,700
balloted over industrial action
Â£3.1bn spent on junior doctor pay currently
11% rise in basic pay offered
25% cut in weekly hours that attract a premium unsociable hours payment
After the result of the ballot was announced, BMA leader Dr Mark Porter said: "We regret the inevitable disruption that this will cause but it is the government's adamant insistence on imposing a contract that is unsafe for patients in the future, and unfair for doctors now and in the future, that has brought us to this point.
"Our message to him is that junior doctors have today made their views perfectly clear but that it is still possible to get back around the negotiating table to deliver a contract that is safe for patients, contains the necessary contractual safeguards to prevent junior doctors being overworked and properly recognises evening and weekend work."
Meanwhile, Labour shadow health secretary Heidi Alexander has written to the prime minister to ask him to intervene, saying the profession had "lost confidence" in Mr Hunt. She also wants to see independent arbitration.
The letter - seen by the BBC - says: "With the NHS facing its most difficult winter in recent memory, and the prospect of industrial action now looming, it is imperative that urgent steps are taken to resolve this dispute."
Roger Goss, of the campaign group Patient Concern, criticised the way both sides had handled the dispute but said doctors should not go on strike.
"This is the worst news for patients in the history of the NHS. What happened to the promise that the interests of patients are paramount and we put patients first?
"Any honourable doctor with a genuine vocation who wants to preserve the high esteem which the medical profession currently enjoys will refuse to cause suffering inherent in a full-scale walk-out."
Scotland and Wales have said they do not want to introduce the contract changes, while Northern Ireland has yet to make a decision.
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Hampshire batsman Tom Alsop has dedicated his maiden first-class hundred to team-mate Michael Carberry, who was diagnosed with cancer in July.

Alsop, 20, struck 117 not out on the second day of Hampshire's Division One match against Surrey at The Oval.
"I want to dedicate my century to Michael," he told BBC Radio Solent. "He helped me a lot through the academy.
"I would like to thank him for everything he has done to help my game. Everyone is with him."
Left-hander Alsop continued: "I've gone to him for all types of advice, things about batting mostly, and we're good friends off the field.
"To see what he has gone through has been pretty tough for everyone, on him and the club.
"I would like to thank him for everything he has done to help my game. Everyone is with him."
Opener Carberry, 35, played the last of his six Tests for England in January 2014 and last played for Hampshire in a T20 match on 8 July - six days before his diagnosis.


Politicians are being urged to simplify the way they fund free childcare for pre-school children by creating what is being dubbed a "childcare passport".

The National Day Nurseries Association idea would draw all existing funding streams into one account which parents could then use as they choose.
The body, which represents 20,000 independent nurseries, says the current funding system is too complicated.
The idea could "solve" the childcare issue for the long term, it said.
NDNA chief executive Purnima Tanuku said it would put families at the heart of childcare, cut bureaucracy and allow nurseries to get on with caring for and educating children.
"This general election is a great opportunity for parties to work together and transform childcare funding for the long term."
She added: "If parents hold the purse strings they can choose and pay for their childcare directly, making things much simpler for them and allowing more money to reach nursery frontlines."
Her organisation, and other early years groups, have long argued the current state funding is inadequate, the system is inefficient and very complicated for parents.
The three main political parties back the continuation of free childcare for pre-school children.
In England, there are four main funding streams - employer-supported childcare vouchers, tax-free childcare (which is due to be introduced this year), various free early years entitlements, depending on the age of the child,  and any help via tax credits or universal credit.
The NDNA says such a passport and the right investment could help to offset longstanding underfunding of nursery places by successive governments which has not kept pace with inflation and rising wages.
However, she acknowledged, such a plan "would involve a change of mindset to a family-centred system rather than the traditional approach that requires families to fit in with government's initiatives".
Ms Tanuku is urging all political parties to support the setting up of a cross-departmental taskforce along with representatives from Scotland and Wales.


A lack of available properties and the effect of transaction taxes left the Scottish housing market "stagnant" in July, according to a new report.

A survey by the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors found price growth across the UK fell from 7% to 1%.
It said Scotland's Land and Building Transaction Tax bands created a "bottleneck", discouraging some sales.
The Scottish government insists LBTT is "more progressive" than stamp duty and "benefits the vast majority" of buyers.
The transaction tax was introduced in April 2015 as a replacement for stamp duty north of the border.
Holyrood's finance committee declared the introduction "operationally successful", but concerns have been aired about the top end of the market.
The latest residential survey from the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (Rics) found the lowest levels of price growth around the UK since 2013.
Estate agents said may people considering moves in Scotland were instead making improvements in their existing homes, due to a limited choice of properties for sale.
Rics believes LBTT bands are part of the problem, with policy manager Hew Edgar saying: "This latest survey merely reinforces what we have been saying for some time - that the current LBTT bandings are creating a bottleneck in certain areas of the market, and encouraging property powers to eschew moving in favour of improving their current properties.
"The Scottish government must address this problem by reviewing the LBTT framework and putting in place a structure that would inject some much-needed fluidity into the market."
The group's chief economist Simon Rubinsohn said sales activity across the UK had been slipping in recent months, and said the latest surveys suggested "this could continue for some time to come".
A Scottish government spokesman said the Rics survey was "not backed up by the latest property data", arguing that the Scottish housing market had outperformed other parts of the UK in the first half of 2017.
He said: "Since the introduction of LBTT, 93% of taxpayers have paid either less tax compared to SDLT (stamp duty land tax) or no tax at all.
"We will continue to monitor all parts of the market closely. More generally, we have committed continuing with our shared equity programmes which will enable more people to realise their dreams of home ownership."
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An obsession with winning medals puts grassroots sport at risk, an AM has said.

Labour's Lee Waters said limited public cash should be spent on getting more people active, not "investments that win medals for a few".
Wales earned four gold medals and six silver at Rio, among a total GB haul of 67.
Sport Wales says it spends three times more on grassroots sport than elite sport.
Mr Waters, who was elected as Llanelli AM in May, is a member of the assembly's culture committee.
He said funding for elite sport was "being prioritised" and "austerity cuts have brought local clubs to the brink".
"The medal tally at the Rio Olympics was brilliant and intoxicating.
"But it masks a growing crisis in sports at a grassroots level, and does nothing to address the wider public health emergency from rising obesity. An obsession with winning medals risks the future of grassroots sports.
"It's great being near top of the league for medals but we are also top of the league for childhood obesity in Europe and that should come first."
Mr Waters said Carmarthenshire council was spending a Â£293,000 Welsh Government grant on staff to encourage kids to join clubs and "progress up the elite ladder", while "pitches are threatened with being sold off for housing developments and volunteer coaches are at their wits' end".
He cited figures from the Carmarthenshire United Sports Committee saying 10 sports clubs and 100 bowlers had been lost as a result of fee increases brought in by the authority.
The council's executive member for leisure, Meryl Gravell, said the authority "continues to invest significant resources in grassroots sport, working closely with the Welsh Government and Sport Wales to deliver initiatives such as 'Dragon Sport' and '5x60' extra-curricular sports clubs in schools and supporting local clubs through community chest grants".
Sport Wales said it invested Â£24m a year in community sports - three times that invested in elite sport.
A spokeswoman said: "We have seen positive trends in the last few years of increased regular participation across the board but we are not complacent and want to ensure that our investment is helping to deliver a network of opportunities that enable people to become, and crucially, remain active."
A Welsh Government spokeswoman said: "Welsh sporting success, whether at the Euros or at the Rio Olympics, can play a huge role in inspiring people, young and old, to participate in sport at all levels and to increase their physical activity."
She said the government was working with others "on a range of projects to support people to be more physically active, including free swimming".


Girl choristers have been installed at Truro Cathedral for the first time in its history.

The choir has consisted of boys and men since the cathedral was consecrated in 1887.
In September 2015, 20 girl choristers aged 13 to 18 joined the music foundation.
At a special service on Sunday the treble section was made up entirely of girls as the boys were given the day off.
A cathedral spokesperson said girls are educated at Truro School, where they receive a 25% scholarship which can be supplemented by a means-tested additional bursary to ensure selection is based purely on ability.
The spokesperson said girls from any school are eligible to apply, though if successful they have to move to Truro School.
The Dean of Truro, the Very Reverend Roger Bush, said: "It was a very significant occasion for us. The atmosphere in the place was really electric."
"An aspiration has become a reality and we're all celebrating the fact."


A rescue helicopter team who responded to a six-year-old girl choking on a grape "tried as hard as we could" to save her, an inquest has heard.

Jasmine Lapsley was on holiday in Morfa Nefyn, Gwynedd, when she collapsed after eating a grape in August 2014.
The Caernarfon inquest heard Jasmine, from Liverpool, was flown to hospital in Bangor where she died.
Ex-Raf Flt Sgt Peter Wood said the callout was "extremely distressing".
Mr Wood said the scene on his arrival was one of "an extreme atmosphere of stress".
He added: "I've never been to a paediatric case of this magnitude. But the two men in the ambulance didn't seem flustered. They appeared in control and professional."
He described how Jasmine was not breathing and a paramedic inserted a tube into her airway.
Mr Wood expressed concern it had vomit in it and used a stethoscope to check the tube had been correctly placed.
He said he wanted to do a test which monitors carbon dioxide leaving the lungs, but was told the ambulance did not have the equipment for it.
Mr Wood told the hearing he carried Jasmine to the helicopter and how, on arrival at hospital, doctors removed a "large grape" from her throat. She was later pronounced dead.
Fighting back tears as he spoke, he said: "We tried as hard as we could to save her.
"If there can be one benefit from this hearing, it must be that future lives can be saved. I will do all I can to make sure that happens."


French champions Monaco have signed defender Terence Kongolo from Eredivisie winners Feyenoord for a reported 13m euros (£11.4m).

The Netherlands international, 23, has signed a five-year deal with the Champions League semi-finalists.
Kongolo was a product of Feyenoord's youth academy and played 23 league games last season as the club won their first Dutch title in 18 years.
"I am very pleased to join AS Monaco," he told Monaco's official website.
"I will discover an exciting new challenge at a prestigious and ambitious club."
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Hospitals and health trusts in England have been told by regulators to look again at their financial plans as current ones are unaffordable.

Monitor has written to the 46 foundation trusts with the biggest deficits "challenging" their plans.
It urged money-saving measures such as filling only essential staff vacancies.
The Department of Health supported the move, but Labour argued it suggested there was a financial crisis in the NHS that was "spiralling out of control".
David Bennett, chief executive of Monitor, said the NHS was facing an almost unprecedented financial challenge this year.
"We are already reviewing and challenging the plans of the 46 foundation trusts with the biggest deficits," he wrote in a letter to trusts.
"However, it is clear that this process will not close the funding gap and so we need all providers - even those planning for a surplus this year - to look again at their plans to see what more can be done."
He urged trusts to leave non-essential vacancies unfilled, and to follow guidelines on safe staffing in a way which was "proportionate and appropriate".
Rosters should be rigorously managed to deploy staff efficiently across all required shifts, including evenings and weekends, he said.
In May, NHS trusts in England reported a total deficit of £822m in 2014-15, compared with £115m the previous year.
A big rise in spending on agency nurses contributed to the deficits.
At the time, Monitor said figures for this financial year were likely to be even worse.
Shadow health secretary Andy Burnham said the warning by Monitor "suggests that the financial crisis in the NHS is threatening to spiral out of control and hit standards of patient care".
He added: "The suggestion that hospitals can ignore safe staffing guidance will alarm patients and the government must decide if it will overrule this advice."
The Department of Health said it was investing £8bn into the NHS in England so that it could implement a five-year plan, and it was vital that "every penny possible" was spent on patient care.
"We support this move by NHS regulators, on top of the package of financial controls announced earlier in the year, to ensure the service lives within its means without compromising standards," a spokesman said.
The provider sector has forecast a total deficit of more than £2bn for 2015-16, according to specialist resource Health Service Journal.


A national internet video campaign has been launched to encourage people who view images of child sexual abuse online to seek help.

The videos feature warnings of the harm done by viewing such images.
The Lucy Faithfull Foundation (LFF) said it was aimed to deter would-be offenders and encourage them to seek therapy before being arrested.
Viewing or sharing an image of someone under the age of 18 carries a maximum prison sentence of 10 years.
The NCA's Child Exploitation and Online Protection Command estimates there are more than 50,000 people in the UK who share and download obscene images of children.
Keith Bristow, the head of the National Crime Agency, previously admitted the scale of the problem meant it was not possible for all offenders to be brought to justice.
The new campaign has been set up by Stop it Now! UK & Ireland  - a child sexual abuse prevention campaign run by the LFF charity, which seeks to reduce the risk of children being sexually abused.
Donald Findlater, director of research and development for the LFF, said recent research indicated as many as 10% of those who look at child abuse images may go on to abuse a child.
He said: "The sooner we stop people viewing indecent images of children online, the fewer children will be abused."
One of those who viewed such images - who the BBC is calling Dave - was sentenced this year for possession of indecent images.
He said he had been "addicted" to adult pornography for years before he started looking for material including children.
"Through various pop-ups and so on, there would be school girl type images, and so on, and gradually more and more degrees which eventually led through to underage images".
"I do recall after very initially seeing any images that I was totally disgusted with myself for having done that - but at the same time I went back."
He was arrested last year, convicted, given a community sentence and placed on the sex offenders' register.
He also agreed to undergo therapy.
"I always suspected that one day there would be a knock at the door and when it came I was very petrified, but certainly as time has gone on there has been a huge sense of relief."
"I'm not a monster. I am just an ordinary person that you might just pass in the street."
The videos have been put together with help from the police and include comments from offenders - voiced by actors - who describe what a conviction did to their lives.
The videos also explain that the viewing of the images is not a victimless crime and highlight the harm done to children involved, as well as the consequences for the lives of people who access the images.
One shows officers knocking on the door of a man's home before his wife and child watch him being taken away in handcuffs.
Help is then offered through a confidential helpline run by the LFF, which can also organise group or individual therapy.
The videos are going to be rolled out across social media and through carefully placed online advertising.
There have been similar initiatives in Holland and Germany which have targeted men who admit to being sexually attracted to children.
Research published by the NSPCC in July this year revealed offenders are being convicted at the rate of two per day for possession of obscene images.
A study of 100 court cases found police had seized 4.5 million images of child sexual abuse.
Campaigners fear some of those those who look at the images may move on to abuse.
Dave who was convicted of possessing indecent images says he now feels, "a great sense of shame, guilt, remorse for my bad behaviours that I had".
His advice for other men and women in his position is simple.
"Get help before, before you're arrested, there is a path, there are a lot of very good people out there to help you, pick up the phone and start talking to someone".
"The best thing to do is to start to talk".
An NSPCC spokesman said it welcomed the efforts made to stop people viewing abuse images, but added: "But we mustn't forget there are thousands of young victims and similar efforts should be made to ensure they are identified, rescued and given protection and support."


An ice rink that melted in the unseasonably warm weather has closed with the company going into liquidation.

Colchester Winter Wonderland and Ice Rink, which opened last month, said it had become "financially impossible" to continue after the warm temperatures left people skating through water.
Customers had said it was like a "huge puddle" and "too dangerous" to use.
All remaining events have been cancelled.
On a statement on its Facebook page, the company said: "This decision has been taken with deep regret as it will have a major impact of (sic) its staff, partners and customers."
The ice rink, in Castle Park, was forced to close on six occasions since it opened on 27 November. It was due to run until 3 January.
On Tuesday morning Reflective Ice, which runs the rink, posted a message saying "the constant wind now on site and warmer temperatures have destroyed the ice pad again".
Angie Bailey, 36, who lives in Colchester, took her children to the rink on Saturday afternoon but said it was "too dangerous" for Jack, aged 10, and Sommer aged 5, to skate.
"My children had just got over colds and for them to skate and fall over in cold icy water isn't on," Ms Bailey said. "I paid for ice skating not water skating.
"The amount of people falling over due to catching their blades was crazy, the water was deep enough it covered the blades of the skates."
Some customers had praised the experience. A woman called Emma Barnes said her daughter "had a fantastic time...  she did fall over and get completely soaked but we brought a spare set of clothes".
But other customers described the rink as "one huge puddle" and a "swimming pool ice rink."
Reflective Ice previously replied to say that the situation was "totally out of our control".
"All our equipment is working perfectly, it's just too warm," it said.


Many businesses have spoken of 'relief' over Scotland's rejection of independence, but said the "No" vote was the start of a period of change.

However, banking giant RBS said it would not now move its head office to London.
The bank said it would be "business as usual for all our customers across the UK".
Businesses in favour of independence were "disappointed" with the referendum outcome.
Financial services companies including RBS, Lloyds, TSB, Standard Life, Clydesdale, and Tesco Bank had indicated that they would move headquarters or parts of the business south if Scotland had voted "Yes".
RBS said: "The announcement we made about moving our registered head office to England was part of a contingency plan to ensure certainty and stability for our customers, staff and shareholders should there be a 'Yes' vote.
"That contingency plan is no longer required. Following the result it is business as usual for all our customers across the UK and RBS," it added.
Standard Life confirmed that it would not be moving any operations to England.
"They've [the plans have] been shelved for now. We've no plans to move any of our operations," a Standard Life spokesman said.
Lloyds Banking Group said it "remains committed to having a significant presence in Scotland."
However, BBC business editor Kamal Ahmed said that the response from Lloyds was "far more equivocal" than the one from RBS.
"I am told the bank did not want to make a final statement on its legal home until other, significant, regulatory matters are dealt with," he said in a blog post.
"That, sources tell me, includes 'ring-fencing' - the government's proposals to split retail and investment banking. Lloyds wants to keep its options open until those plans are finalised, which is not likely to happen until 2018," he added.
The Bank of England, which had contingency plans in the event of a "Yes" vote for independence, declined to comment.
Business lobbying groups said that firms were "relieved" over the outcome of the vote.
The CBI said "business has always believed that the Union is best for creating jobs".
"This is a momentous day for our United Kingdom and this result will be greeted by a collective sigh of relief across the business community," said John Cridland, CBI director general.
However, the group warned that devolution should not "undermine the strength of the single internal market".
Pro-independence group Business for Scotland said that it was "disappointed that the opportunity to improve Scotland through independence has been lost."
"Huge credit due to the Scottish people who have, by and large, conducted the biggest political debate there is with good grace, good manners and some sparkling wit," said Business for Scotland chairman Tony Banks.
"Like others who campaigned for a Yes vote, I'll continue campaigning for a better Scotland. We won't have all the tools that we would have had after a Yes vote but we'll all do what we can to improve things as much as possible."
Business group the Institute of Directors (IoD) Scotland said that political groups and businesses needed to "get together to focus on growth".
"Greater fiscal and political autonomy for Scotland are on the way and previously opposing groups now need to work together, and with the business sector, to make sure that the outcome is successful," said IoD Scotland executive director David Watt.
One of the  key issues of the referendum was the outcome for Scotland's oil and gas industry in the event of a "Yes" or "No" vote.
Government policy on taxation of Scottish energy resources is now one of the issues to be decided as Scotland is granted powers under further devolution.
Oil & Gas UK, a lobbying group for the energy industry, called for the government to press "swiftly ahead with fiscal reform".
It added that recommendations to "maximise the economic recovery of our oil and gas resource" should be implemented.
Energy giant Shell added that the decision for Scotland to remain in the UK "reduces the operating uncertainty for businesses based in Scotland."
Lord Haskins, former chairman of Northern Foods, said there could be "consequences" for supermarkets that took positions supporting a "No" vote. He told the BBC there was a danger supermarkets could be shunned by shoppers.
John Lewis, which in the build-up to the referendum had said that prices could rise in Scotland in the event of a 'Yes' vote, said it had no comment to make.
Asda, which had also warned of price rises, said: "The Scottish market is important to us."
"I always said that it was for the Scottish people to decide their own future in a democratic referendum," said Asda chief executive Andy Clarke.
"We serve 1.8 million customers every week and our single price file means that the price they pay in Perth is the same as they would pay in Portsmouth, irrespective of higher operating costs. That is a point of difference for our business and something of which we are very proud."


Vin Diesel says he feels the presence of his late co-star Paul Walker.

The star was speaking ahead of the premiere of Furious 7, the seventh instalment in the Fast and Furious film franchise.
Walker, who played Brian O'Conner in the films, was killed in a car crash in 2013 while it was being filmed.
Diesel, who plays group leader Dominic Toretto, said he felt the presence of the actor who he often referred to as his brother.
"I don't feel his absence today, that's the irony, I feel he's here today... and the whole objective of doing Furious 7 was to make him proud and something tells me he is going to be very proud."
Diesel, 47, was joined at a Hollywood Boulevard hand and foot ceremony and at the premiere later by co-stars Michelle Rodriguez, Tyrese Gibson, Ludacris, Jordana Brewster, Lucas Black and Nathalie Emmanuel, as well as girlfriend Paloma Jimenez and three of their children.
Diesel's newborn baby Pauline, named in honour of Walker, stayed at home.
During his speech outside the Chinese Theatre in front of hundreds of fans, Diesel said he relayed advice his father gave him.
"Teach a child confidence and you don't need to teach them anything else."
Diesel said he felt pressure to say something meaningful to mark the occasion.
"What goes through my mind above everything is what can I say to make this moment worthy?
"I'm being honoured, what wisdom can I impart? What can I say to a future generation? What can I say to our generation?
"That's all that is going through my mind and it's not something I want to write down before I come here, I want it to be pure and organic."
Paul Walker's brothers Caleb and Cody Walker helped to finish filming on Furious 7.
An investigation into the crash, which also killed Walker's friend Roger Rodas, found it was caused by unsafe speed rather than a mechanical failure.
The Porsche Carrera GT, driven by Rodas, was travelling at 94mph in a 45mph zone when it hit a lamp post.
Production on the film was stopped after Walker's death in November 2013 but resumed the following March.
Fast And Furious 7 is released in UK cinemas on Good Friday.
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Built in the 1950s to push forward the UK's nuclear energy ambitions, Dounreay is now at the centre of complex Â£1.6bn demolition job.

The incident which saw cargo ship Parida drifting in the Moray Firth has, and not for the first time, cast a spotlight on the issue of dealing with part of Dounreay's legacy - its tonnes of radioactive waste, nuclear fuel and other contaminated material.
So how are these toxic leftovers being handled, and what kinds of material are involved?
During the 1990s, nuclear material was sent from abroad to Dounreay for reprocessing.
The customers included power plants and research centres in Australia, Germany and Belgium.
In October 1991, three protestors sought to prevent spent fuel rods from Germany from reaching Dounreay by road.
The demonstrators lay on the carriageway of the Kessock Bridge near Inverness. Police moved the protestors and the convoy continued its journey north.
Because Dounreay is being decommissioned, the foreign material is now being sent back to the countries from which it originated.
In 2011, it was announced that more than 150 tonnes of intermediate level waste would be transported back to Belgium in 21 shipments over four years.
The waste was the result of reprocessing 240 spent fuel elements from Belgium's BR2 research reactor, which produces isotopes for use in medicine and industry.
The reprocessing created about 22,680 litres of liquid waste. This has been mixed with cement and poured into 123 drums each weighing 1.25 tonnes.
Danish company Poulsens has been contracted by the Belgian authorities to take the drums to Belgium. The first shipment left Scotland in September 2012.
The MV Parida, the Turkish-built ship involved in Tuesday night's incident, was designed and constructed to handle specialist cargo.
It structure has been strengthened so it can carry heavy, dangerous goods.
The vessel was making the 19th of the 21 shipments of waste from Dounreay.
Dounreay Site Restoration Limited (DSRL) said it does not allow any material to leave its site unless it was "fully satisfied" the carrier complied with "stringent safety and security" regulations.
DSRL added: "In almost 60 years of nuclear transports from the site, there has never been a release of radioactivity.
"We are determined to keep that record intact."
Dounreay's two experimental reactors - the Dounreay Fast Reactor (DFR), which is housed under the plant's landmark white dome, and the Prototype Fast Reactor (PFR) - are among the facilities which are being cleaned up and dismantled.
However, some new structures are also appearing on the site.
They include the first of two massive vaults where low-level radioactive material will be stored. The facility is costing about Â£20m to construct.
Each vault will be able to hold the equivalent of between 370 and 450 double decker buses.
The floor of the first vault is 36ft (11m) below ground and the construction work involved 260 tonnes of steel.
The land where the vaults are located will remain a restricted area for 300 years after the decommissioning of Dounreay is completed in 2025 because of the radioactive material stored inside the facilities.
While low-level radioactive material will be stored at Dounreay, it has been deemed to be too expensive to handle other products on-site.
Breeder is classed by the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority (NDA) as a material which was was used in the process of generating nuclear power, but is not fuel or waste.
It comes in the form of cylinders of uranium metal, about 150mm long and 35mm in diameter.
Fourteen pucks are stacked end-to-end in a stainless steel tube. The tubes were positioned vertically to form an outer ring around the Dounreay Fast Reactor.
In December 2012, the first of 90 rail shipments of breeder material was made from Georgemas, a tiny station near Dounreay, to Sellafield in Cumbria.
The journey was understood to have been made under armed escort.
Forty-four tonnes of breeder material in total will be transported by train to Sellafield for reprocessing.
At an estimated cost of Â£60m, the NDA said it was a cheaper option than trying to deal with it at Dounreay.
Exotics include material containing highly enriched uranium.
Sellafield is expected to receive 40 shipments of exotics over the next six years.


Plans for three wind farms in the south of Scotland have been revealed.

Ecotricity wants to build 16 turbines on land near Duns in Berwickshire where there is an "isolated landscape" and "high wind speeds".
Councillors have also been asked to reject plans for an eight-turbine development at Larbrax Moor, near Leswalt in Wigtownshire.
However, planners have recommended they approve proposals for a nine-turbine wind farm near Glenluce.
Ecotricity will apply to the Scottish government for permission to build at Inch Moor, near Duns.
The firm said it wants to build turbines that measure 126.5m (415ft) in height.
It claims the project could meet the energy needs of about 36,500 homes.
Meanwhile, Dumfries and Galloway Council planners have recommended that Brookfield Renewable's plans for Larbrax Moor are refused.
They claim it would have a "significant and adverse impact on the landscape".
There are 10 wind farms either operational or under construction within a 30km (19 miles) area of the site.
Scottish Natural Heritage has also raised "significant and serious concerns" about the impact of the project on the landscape.
In papers submitted to the council, the developer claimed the project would generate 20MW of electricity over its 25-year lifespan.
The turbines would be 100m (328ft) high and they would stand on a 558 hectare (1,379 acres) site.
The application has drawn 59 letters of objection, including those from the South Rhins Community Development Trust and Wigtownshire Chamber of Commerce, and 134 in support.
Plans for the wind farm near Glenluce are expected to be approved by the same council.
Under plans submitted by WilloWind Gass, the turbines would fill a gap between the operational Artfield Fell wind farm and the Airies wind farm, which has been approved but not implemented.
Planners have recommended it is approved, subject to strict conditions.


Chris Eubank Jr produced a sparkling performance to beat middleweight rival Gary O'Sullivan, forcing the Irishman to quit after seven rounds.

Eubank Jr, 26, showed off his full repertoire of punches, landing right uppercuts and left hooks in particular.
O'Sullivan, 31, demonstrated a granite chin and great courage but, ultimately, his corner had to step in.
Also at the O2 Arena, Essex lightweight Kevin Mitchell was stopped in the fifth round by Venezuela's Ismael Barroso.
"It was very satisfying," said Eubank Jr to Sky Sports.
"To be in the position I am now - ready to fight for the WBA world title is a dream come true.
"This is just a stepping stone to bigger and better things.
"I want everyone who has a world title. I will take all comers."
Fireworks were expected between Eubank Jr and O'Sullivan, who had been exchanging insults on social media for several years.
As if more spice was needed, Chris Eubank Sr was in his son's corner, while Eubank Sr's old rival Steve Collins was in O'Sullivan's.
Eubank Jr came flying out of the blocks, peppering the Cork man with an array of uppercuts and hooks in the opening two rounds.
When O'Sullivan stood up to it and came back swinging in the third, rocking Eubank Jr with a ferocious right hand, it seemed as though the Englishman might have shot his bolt.
But from thereon in it was one-way traffic, punches ricocheting off O'Sullivan's chin as he continued to plough forward. And after a seventh round in which O'Sullivan's punch output dropped appreciably, the fight was called off.
Eubank Jr now has 21 wins from 22 professional fights - his only defeat was by compatriot Billy Joe Saunders in 2014.
His stated aim is to challenge Kazakhstan's WBA champion Gennady Golovkin, who is regarded as one of the world's finest pound-for-pound boxers.
Golovkin is undefeated in 34 fights, with 31 knockouts, and has wins over British fighters Matthew Macklin and Martin Murray on his record.
Mitchell has some tough decisions to make about his future after suffering his fourth defeat in 43 pro encounters, all by knockout.
In his previous fight, the 31-year-old was tremendously courageous in losing to WBC lightweight champion Jorge Linares, also from Venezuela.
Mitchell also came up short against Scotland's then WBO champion Ricky Burns in 2012 and Australia's Michael Katsidis in 2010.
Against Barroso, Mitchell spent four rounds wheeling away from his rival's vaunted left, only to be dropped by a short right in the fifth.
As is his habit, Mitchell stood and traded instead of running or grabbing and the fight was called off after he was clubbed to the canvas for a second time.
Mitchell, who had hoped to challenge Manchester's WBA title-holder Anthony Crolla, might now decide he is a spent force at world level and retire.
Also on the bill, Tony Bellew outpointed Poland's Mateusz Masternak to secure the European cruiserweight title and climb back into world title contention.
Bellew, 33, is a former world title challenger at light-heavyweight but has been treading water since beating Welshman Nathan Cleverly at the higher weight last November.
Bellew, who stars in the new Rocky film which is out in January, struggled to impose himself at times but ground his way to a unanimous decision.
The Liverpool fighter is ranked in the top 10 with three of the four main governing bodies and could get a second world title shot in 2016.
American two-weight world champion Paulie Malignaggi won the European welterweight title with a unanimous decision over Italy's Antonio Moscatiello.
Malignaggi, who is of Italian descent, had far too much experience and class for Moscatiello and barely lost a round.


Two pumps from the Netherlands are being used to try to reduce water levels at the flooded Somerset Levels.

The area began flooding more than six weeks ago and the continuing heavy rain has since flooded dozens of homes.
In all 13 Dutch pumps were brought in by the Environment Agency and will be used to divert water to try and cut levels on the River Tone.
The agency said the scheme would reduce the flood risk in the villages of Northmoor and Saltmoor.
The two high-capacity pumps currently operating are situated in Dunball - others have been installed in Beer Wall.
When they all are up and running they will move 7.3 million tonnes of water each day from the Somerset Levels
The pumps would be used to send water down the River Sowey and the King's Sedgemoor Drain to the River Parrett at Dunball near Bridgwater, Melvin Wood from the Environment Agency said.
"On the River Tone catchment we will see the levels dropping hopefully within days, but it is dependent on whether further water comes down the river from further rainfall we might receive," he said.
"Within days we should see levels dropping within the Parrett."
Mr Wood said it "may take weeks" for the water levels on the flooded moors to clear.
"But we're talking about getting the levels down so that we can start our major pumping operation on Currymoor and the moors upstream of Langport within several weeks."
However some residents said they were worried about water being diverted into areas not currently flooded.
Mr Wood said contingency plans had been drawn up to prevent that happening.
"We've got additional pumping at Beer Wall, sandbagged properties at Aller Drove and we're putting additional sandbagging in at Westonzoyland," he said.
Two severe flood warnings remain in place in the Somerset Levels, at Salt Moor and North Moor including Moorland, and at A361 East Lyng to Burrowbridge.


The FTSE 100 closed higher on Monday, with airlines flying high and miners in the doldrums.

Shares in Whitbread, the owner of Premier Inn and Costa Coffee, led the risers to finish 2.1% higher at £40.45.
However, International Consolidated Airlines Group, the parent company of British Airways, and easyJet were the day's most consistent gainers.
IAG rose 2% to finish at 611p and easyJet ended 1.4% higher at £13.56.
Precious metals miner Fresnillo began and ended the trading session as the biggest loser, down 3.1% at £15.55.
Miners Antofagasta and Randgold Resources were also major fallers, down 2.7% and 1.6% respectively.


League Two side Bristol Rovers have signed Swansea striker Oliver McBurnie on loan until the end of the season.

Scotland Under-21 international McBurnie has yet to make an appearance for the Swans since signing from Bradford City in July 2015.
The 19-year-old featured in three games on loan at Newport earlier this season, and scored a hat-trick on his debut.
Bristol Rovers are currently sixth in the table, nine points outside the automatic promotion places.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A leading US civil rights group has voted to end its 15-year economic boycott of South Carolina a day after the Confederate flag was removed from the grounds of the state house.

The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People had boycotted tourism and other services in protest at the flying of the flag.
It was removed after a debate sparked by the shooting of nine black people.
The suspected gunman had been pictured holding the Confederate banner.
The flag was the battle emblem of the southern states during the American Civil War but is now seen by many as a symbol of slavery and racism.
Members of the NAACP agreed the move at their annual convention in Philadelphia.
"Emergency resolution passed by the NAACP National Board of Directors at #NAACP106, ending the 15 year South Carolina boycott," the group said on its Twitter feed.
The Confederate flag was originally placed on top of the South Carolina state house in Columbia in 1961 as part of Civil War centennial commemorations.
However, critics said it was more of a sign of opposition to the black civil rights movement at the time.
The NAACP announced its boycott in 2000 and maintained it even though the flag was later taken down from the capitol's dome and placed by a civil war monument in the grounds.
The future of the flag was thrust back into the limelight after nine black people were shot dead in a church in Charleston, South Carolina on 17 June this year.
Pictures emerged of suspect Dylann Roof - who is facing nine counts of murder - waving the flag.
After a long and fractious debate, a bill calling for the flag to be taken down was signed on Thursday by Republican Governor Nikki Haley.
Relatives of some of the victims attended Friday's ceremony to remove the flag from outside the state house.
Hundreds of people turned out to watch the event, some chanting "take it down" while they waited for the ceremony to begin.
The flag's supporters argue that it is an important part of southern heritage.


Ospreys eased to only their second win of the season, running in six tries to move above Zebre in the Pro12 table.

Jonathan Spratt, Josh Matavesi and Eli Walker crossed for first-half scores, with Justin Tipuric, Walker again and Sam Parry adding further touchdowns.
Dan Biggar kicked two conversions from six shots at goal and Sam Davies one.
The result was a welcome fillip for the Ospreys as they prepare to kick off their European Champions Cup campaign against Exeter Chiefs next weekend.
The Ospreys gave a first regional start of the season to captain Alun Wyn Jones, who faces a decision over whether to accept a national dual contract (NDC) for next season or move out of Wales, and he turned in a storming display to inspire his side.
Number eight Dan Baker returned to the starting line-up in the same week he signed an NDC.
It was the Ospreys who dominated the early stages and it took just nine minutes to get their first try through centre Spratt, as he swapped passes with Dafydd Howells wide out on the right.
The home side were looking more inventive than in previous games, and Matavesi grabbed the next score on 18 minutes, running on to a chip down the middle and bursting clear from 35 metres for Biggar to convert.
Walker was next on the scoresheet, squeezing in at the corner on 26 minutes after a break by Dan Evans well supported by skipper Jones.
Carlo Canna got Zebre on the scoreboard with a penalty but Biggar missed with a long-distance shot to leave it 17-3 at the interval.
The Italians came out more strongly for the second half, with flanker Johan Meyer held up twice close to the Ospreys' line.
But Tipuric scored the bonus-point try on 58 minutes, put over by a Matavesi break after some excellent combined handling.
And Walker cut through for his second with a lovely angle off the shoulder of Biggar, who converted.
Replacement hooker Parry, who replaced a limping Scott Baldwin early in the second half, notched up Ospreys' sixth try, which was converted by Davies.
It all added up to some reassurance for the Ospreys faithful in the build-up to Europe, with flanker Tipuric getting the man-of-the-match award.
Man of the match Justin Tipuric told BBC Wales Sport:
"We're not used to losing so it was nice to get the bonus-point win and look forward to next week against Exeter.
"Our discipline was better than in Glasgow and we looked after the ball in the contact area - we were just better as a team, it's taken a bit of time to gel back together but we're on the up."
Ospreys: Dan Evans; Dafydd Howells, Jonathan Spratt, Josh Matavesi, Eli Walker; Dan Biggar, Brendan Leonard; Paul James, Scott Baldwin, Aaron Jarvis, Lloyd Ashley,  Alun Wyn Jones (capt), James King, Justin Tipuric, Dan Baker.
Replacements: Sam Parry, Ryan Bevington, Cai Griffiths, Olly Cracknell, Sam Underhill, Tom Habberfield, Sam Davies, Ben John.
Zebre: Guglielmo Palazzani; Kayle Van Zyl, Giulio Bisegni, Matteo Pratichetti, Leonardo Sarto; Carlo Canna, Luke Burgess; Andrea Lovotti, Andrea Manici, Dario Chistolini, Quintin Geldenhuys,  George Biagi (capt), Jacopo Sarto, Johan Meyer, Andries Van Schalkwyk.
Replacements: Oliviero Fabiani, Andrea De Marchi, Pietro Ceccarelli, Federico Ruzza, Emiliano Caffini, Marcello Violi, Michele Visentin, Edoardo Padovani.
Referee: Gary Conway (IRFU).
Assistant referees: Sean Brickell, Greg Morgan (both WRU).
Citing commissioner: Jeff Mark (WRU).


The longest-serving Lib Dem peer and veteran human rights campaigner, Lord Avebury, has died at the age of 87.

Born Eric Lubbock, he became Liberal MP for Orpington in 1962 when he won a by-election with a huge 22% swing from the Conservatives.
He held the seat for eight years, moving to the Lords in 1971 when he inherited the title of Baron Avebury.
Lib Dem leader Tim Farron paid tribute to a "true Liberal", "great campaigner" and "committed internationalist".
Lord Avebury: Obituary
Mr Farron  said the peer, who had been suffering from leukaemia, would "be remembered as much for his unyielding commitment to fighting for Liberal causes as his sensational by-election victory".
"He campaigned to lower the voting age, founded the parliamentary human rights group and fought for the rights of refugees and asylum seekers, taking up the cases of hundreds of individuals fleeing persecution.
"He was a committed internationalist, regularly promoting human rights around the world. The Liberal Democrats have lost a great campaigner, a great friend and a true champion of the Liberal cause."
A Buddhist, Lord Avebury was the patron of Angulimala, which promotes the teaching and practice of Buddhism in British prisons.
He also campaigned on behalf of secular causes, fighting to remove mandatory daily worship in maintained schools.
In 2009, the National Secular Society named the peer secularist of the year, jointly with Evan Harris, for his work on abolition of blasphemy laws in England and Wales.
His biography on the Lib Dem website says he also "sought and won" a battle with the senior parliamentary official known as Black Rod to keep the right to park bicycles against the front of the Houses of Parliament.
Keith Porteous Wood, executive director of the National Secular Society, said Lord Avebury had supported countless human rights campaigns.
"His knowledge of foreign affairs, particularly of remote parts of the developing world, was second to none. The weak and oppressed in these places have lost a true champion.
"I have lost a very close friend. The nation has lost a human rights champion."


Torquay United manager Kevin Nicholson says his side's attitude in training ahead of their loss to Tranmere Rovers contributed to the result.

The Gulls beat Solihull Moors for a first win in nine, but Nicholson was unhappy with the attitude afterwards.
"We came in after beating Solihull and too many of the team looked like they'd made it," Nicholson told BBC Devon.
"You should be in on Thursday and you should be head down let's get ready to go and beat Tranmere."
He continued: "Overall it was an OK half and then one terrible bit of defending and a goal and you throw away all the good work that you've done.
"But then that comes from a will to improve, you've got to put the work in every day at training, so that those kind of mistakes stop happening."
Torquay have not beaten Tranmere since 1998, having lost the last three matches the two sides have played since Rovers were relegated to the National League in 2015.
"It's sad that Tranmere versus Torquay should be a clash of two titans in this league and we're coming here as huge underdogs," added Nicholson.
"It shouldn't be that way, our lads have got to set the standards and targets a lot higher than what they have, however they kept going and played some reasonably good football."


A man who died following a house fire in Cardiff has been named as 59-year-old Robert Sadler.

Police were called to Mr Sadler's home in Llanrumney Avenue, Llanrumney, at 04:30 GMT on Sunday.
A 27-year-old woman was arrested on suspicion of murder and is being detained under the Mental Health Act.
Mr Sadler's family is being supported by family liaison officers and South Wales Police is continuing to investigate his death.


Pakistan's Supreme Court has found Prime Minister Yousuf Raza Gilani guilty in a contempt of court case.

However, the court gave Mr Gilani only a symbolic sentence and he will not have to serve any time in jail.
Mr Gilani had denied that he had been in contempt for failing to reopen corruption cases against President Asif Ali Zardari.
The prime minister had argued that the president, who rejects the corruption charges, has immunity as head of state.
The case is part of a stand-off between the government and the judiciary, which many believe is being backed by the military as it pursues the case against the civilian administration.
Mr Gilani's lawyers say he will appeal against his conviction.
A meeting of the senior leadership of Mr Gilani's Pakistan People's Party (PPP) after the court case expressed concern "over attempts to dismiss an elected government and an elected prime minister".
Those attending concluded that the prime minister can "only be removed in accordance with the... constitution".
The three-month trial ended on Tuesday when defence and prosecution counsels concluded their arguments.
By M Ilyas KhanBBC News, Islamabad
The Supreme Court found the prime minister guilty, but sentenced him to confinement for just a few minutes  - "until the rising of the court".
The short order from the court was very lenient and also rather vague.
The outstanding issue is whether Mr Gilani could be disqualified from office. It will depend on whether he has been convicted under a specific clause in the constitution, 63-1 (G), which would mean he is  automatically disqualified from holding public office. But the court order was unclear on that point. A detailed judgement will be issued later.
Meanwhile, Mr Gilani, who was flanked by supporters, left the court a free man. His standing with the public appears to have improved as he stood his ground in this case.
Arriving at the Supreme Court on Thursday morning, Mr Gilani and his fellow cabinet members were surrounded by the media and his supporters, some of whom showered him with rose petals.
He left the building shortly after the verdict was announced, having been symbolically detained for just a few minutes until the court adjourned.
The court found Mr Gilani guilty of contempt for "wilfully flouting and disregarding" its order directing him to contact the Swiss government over corruption cases against President Zardari.
This action, Thursday's order said, "is substantially detrimental to justice" and "brings this court into disrepute".
Even though Mr Gilani was found guilty, the verdict may well be viewed as a victory by the government as it would appear that for the moment he can carry on in office, the BBC's Aleem Maqbool in Islamabad reports.
He describes the mood among Gilani supporters as one of celebration, despite the conviction.
There were immediate opposition calls for Mr Gilani to step down.
"The court verdict is based on truth and reality. The prime minister himself invited this situation," opposition leader Nawaz Sharif told Geo TV.
Mr Gilani, who was making his third appearance before the court this year, had previously said he would have to step down if he was found guilty.
The BBC's M Ilyas Khan in Islamabad says there is still a chance that Mr Gilani could be automatically disqualified from holding public office - it depends under what part of the constitution he has been convicted.
Our correspondent says the court has issued no such order and not initiated proceedings to that effect, so Mr Gilani is free to remain in his post for now.
A detailed judgement from the court is still awaited.
President Zardari is accused of using Swiss bank accounts to launder bribe money. He has long said the charges are politically motivated.
The Supreme Court has said Mr Gilani defied a court order to write to the Swiss authorities and ask them to reopen the cases against Mr Zardari.
The defence counsel's main argument was that the case in Switzerland had been closed by a Swiss judge "on merit" and there was no justification to apply for its revival.
The defence also argued Mr Zardari has international immunity against criminal proceedings for as long as he is president. Mr Gilani's team had argued that there was, therefore, no legal evidence to find the prime minister in contempt.
His government's battle with the Supreme Court began shortly after Mr Zardari took office in 2008.
In early 2009, the Supreme Court overturned a controversial amnesty dating from the period of former President Pervez Musharraf which protected President Zardari and hundreds of other politicians from being prosecuted for corruption.
General elections are due by early next year.


A man has been sentenced for trying to smuggle 35 puppies through an Anglesey ferry port from Ireland.

Ben Illidge, 33, from Northwich, Cheshire, admitted seven animal regulation and welfare offences.
Caernarfon Crown Court heard the puppies were in "overcrowded cages" on 15 November last year.
Illidge was given an 18-week suspended jail term and ordered to do 200 hours of unpaid work and pay a £1,600 fine plus £1,313 in court costs.
The court heard there were Labradors, terriers, beagles, spaniels and Pomeranians - aged between six and nine weeks - in five cages stacked in the back of a "very hot" van, with no ventilation, searched at Holyhead.
District judge Gwyn Jones said: "This was a money-making venture.
"Hopefully it may make you and others understand attempting to avoid these regulations will not pay."
Police, border force, RSPCA and other officials had conducted an operation against the illegal movement of animals.
The court heard Illidge had planned to sell the animals after buying them in an Irish market and he was "naive".
Sarah Yates, defending, said the puppies had not been in the van more than a few hours and were "in good health".


The British and Irish Lions have a "great chance" of beating a New Zealand side with "definite weaknesses", says England head coach Eddie Jones.

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Warren Gatland's side tour New Zealand next summer, and are underdogs to win the series against the world champions.
But Jones feels the Lions are capable of toppling the All Blacks for the first time since 1971.
"There are definite weaknesses in the New Zealand side," Jones told BBC Sport.
"The Lions have to attack those weaknesses and then play to their strengths."
Steve Hansen's All Blacks have not lost a Test at home since 2009, a run of 43 games, but Jones added: "The Lions have a great chance.
"Of course it is going to be tough, but out of the four teams [England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland], they can put out a great squad of 35, 36 players more than capable of taking the Kiwis on."
Jones was backed to coach the Lions himself after guiding England to a Grand Slam and a series whitewash of Australia, but was unavailable because of his commitment to the Rugby Football Union.
However, he feels the Lions have the right man in Gatland, who led the Lions to victory in Australia in 2013.
Gatland, confirmed as Lions coach last Wednesday, will lead the team until the end of the tour next July, having taken a sabbatical from his job as Wales head coach.
"It's a great appointment," Jones said. "Warren has done it before, and he has a great appreciation of European rugby.
"He knows the players in England, Scotland and Ireland - obviously he knows the Welsh players - so he will do a great job."
Jones' focus is now on the first match of England's autumn series, against South Africa at Twickenham, with the squad named at the end of this month.
"We always ask the players to go back to their clubs and perform like international players," Jones said.
"So if players don't perform at that level, then the selection will change."
England face the Springboks on 12 November, before matches against Fiji, Argentina and Australia.


A part of Newport which is being earmarked as a designated area for prostitutes should not become like Amsterdam, an MP has warned.

Gwent Police is considering plans to have a non-residential area of Pill for prostitutes.
A police spokeswoman said enforcement alone was "not an effective solution".
But Monmouth MP David Davies, who has debated prostitution on the Council of Europe, is cautious about the proposed move.
"I have some concerns about it. I wouldn't want parts of Newport being turned into the centre of Amsterdam," he told BBC Radio Wales.
"If it is about women who work as sex workers having availability to talk to health professionals or finding ways of getting them out of that lifestyle then I can see the arguments for it.
"If it's a case of 'let's just shove everybody out of the way and keep it out of sight' then obviously that's not a good thing.
"Those women who work on the streets are the most vulnerable to attack and women who work as sex workers are attacked a lot."
"Michelle", 48, has been working as a prostitute in Cardiff for the past two years.
She operates from her own home and said she would be "too frightened" to work on the streets.
Michelle fears designated areas could lead to more attacks on sex workers, including rape and murder.
She said: "Having a toleration zone is one thing; having them in the right area is another.
"There are wrong parts of every town and many girls who work the streets have horrendous tales to tell.
"It's like the police will put up with prostitution as long as it's kept out of the way of so-called decent people."
Michelle wants sex workers to be consulted and more safety for women working the streets, with proper policing.
She said: "The law is so intent in criminalising people.  There are women in Cardiff who have been forced into the trade, trafficked. That needs to be stopped."
Michelle is part of the English Collective of Prostitutes, a network of sex workers.
A spokeswoman for the network said most sex workers were mothers working to feed their children and called for more resources to help women who want to leave the profession or stop using drugs.
Alex Feis-Bryce, chief executive of National Ugly Mugs, a support service for sex workers when they are victims of crime, welcomed any move that did not involve enforcement.
"It's a good thing," he said.
"I think any approach by police that is a move away from enforcement is a good idea.
"One effect of having less criminalisation and less enforcement is sex workers are able to report to police when they're targeted, and they are frequently targeted in many areas by rapists, the most dangerous criminals."
He added: "Many sex workers want to move away from police. There's a certain lack of trust between sex workers and police.
"If this policy is being pursued it will have to be part of a bigger conversation with local support agencies, with sex workers themselves, with police, in order to ensure sex workers do want to work in the area that's been designated and they're willing to do so or the policy won't work."
The plans follow a similar pilot scheme in the north of England.


Two people have been arrested in Lancashire after allegedly trying to disarm warplanes bound for Saudi Arabia.

The Rev Dan Woodhouse, a Methodist minister in Leeds and Sam Walton, a Quaker, are accused of entering the BAE Systems site in Warton to disarm planes.
Police said they were being held on suspicion of criminal damage.
In a statement, Rev Woodhouse said stopping warplanes "would save lives".
Rev Woodhouse added: "Stopping or even delaying Saudi Arabia having more planes with which to bomb Yemen would save innocent lives and prevent war crimes."
BAE Systems said the matter was being investigated by Lancashire Police and it was assisting officers with their inquiries.


Kate Atkinson has won the Costa novel award for the second time in three years for A God in Ruins - the companion novel to Life After Life, which won the award in 2013.

A gothic horror novel, a Victorian murder mystery and a biography of the creator of modern environmentalism were also category winners.
The overall Costa book of the year will be revealed on 26 January.
Atkinson won the top prize in 1995 with Behind the Scenes at the Museum.
Other category winners include former teacher and librarian, Andrew Michael Hurley, who has won the first novel award for his debut, The Loney.
The gothic horror initially had a first print run of just 300 copies. The judges called it "as close to the perfect first novel as you can get".
Scottish poet Don Paterson won the poetry category for a second time for his "tour de force" collection titled 40 Sonnets. He last won the award 12 years ago.
Historian and writer Andrea Wulf won the biography award for The Invention of Nature: The Adventures of Alexander Von Humboldt, The Lost Hero of Science.
She tells the story of the visionary German naturalist whose ideas changed the way we see the natural world and created modern environmentalism.
Young adult fiction and children's writer Frances Hardinge won the children's book award with The Lie Tree, a Victorian murder mystery.
The five Costa book award winners each win Â£5,000 and are all now in the running to win the Costa book of the year.
It is the only major UK book prize that is open solely to authors resident in the UK.
Last year's Costa book of the year went to Helen Macdonald's H is for Hawk. In 2013 it was The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer and in 2012 it was Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel.


A large fire which broke out at a disused factory near Aberdeen city centre is being treated as suspicious by police.

Firefighters were called out to the Broadford Works industrial site on Hutcheon Street at about 18:10 on Saturday.
More than 40 firefighters were at the scene at the height of the fire. No-one was hurt.
Police said they were following a positive line of inquiry.
Residents living near the former textile mill were advised to keep windows shut.


At first glance, few people have less in common than Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and US President-elect Donald Trump.

Mr Trudeau is a favourite of global progressives, who see him as a bastion against rising tide of anti-immigrant and protectionist sentiment and who campaigned on appealing to people's "better angels".
Mr Trump won the US election riding that anti-trade and anti-globalisation wave, and as a political outsider who is free with his insults.
The relationship between the North American neighbours is a vital one and depends in part on the Republican and Liberal leaders finding common ground, despite differences in personality and policy.
Here are five areas where Mr Trudeau and Mr Trump are somewhat simpatico.
1. They pulled off unexpected election victories after being discounted by rivals and pundits.
Pollsters in both countries failed to predict Mr Trudeau and Mr Trump's upsets, and both party leaders were seen as celebrity lightweights by rivals.
It is a similarity not lost on Mr Trudeau.
In a 16 December interview with a Montreal radio show host, the prime minister revealed he touched on that "common ground" during his congratulatory phone call to Mr Trump following the US election.
"He and I had a conversation about being knocked around by the media because, present company excluded, that's the experience that I'd had for years of people just slamming me and saying 'he'd never become prime minister,'" Mr Trudeau said.
2. They embrace politics in the social media age.
The prime minister and the president-elect both use social media for their political ends.
Mr Trudeau and his team know a charming photo opportunity of the photogenic prime minister, from shirtless selfies to yoga poses, can go viral and bolster his popularity at home and abroad.
He has leveraged social media as a tool to sell his brand of progressive cool to the world.
While Mr Trudeau has a healthy Twitter following for a world leader, with nearly 2.4m followers (and over 830,000 on Instagram), his influence on the platform is dwarfed by Mr Trump's 19.7m followers.
A prolific tweeter, Mr Trump  wields his influential account to attack opponents, drive the news, and pressure US manufacturers to bend to his agenda.
He has, however, promised to be more restrained in his Twitter antics after being sworn-in 20 January.
3. They promised to change the way politics is done.
Mr Trump vowed during the campaign he would "drain the swamp", a catch-all promise for his supporters who see of Washington as a cesspool of lobbyists, corruption, and waste.
During the 2015 Canadian election, Mr Trudeau said his predecessor, former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper, "turned Ottawa into a partisan swamp" during his near decade in power.
Mr Trudeau promised to put an end to partisanship and patronage in Ottawa, to usher in a more transparent and receptive government, and to make question period respectful again.
The two have faced critics who say those promises were quick to fall by the wayside.
4. They harkened to the past in their pitch to voters.
The two politicians pressed some very powerful nostalgia buttons as they campaigned to lead their countries.
Mr Trump's inescapable campaign slogan, "Make America Great Again", borrowed from former US president Ronald Reagan's 1980 race, looked back to a time when voters felt there was more prosperity and opportunity in the United States and when their nation garnered respect on the world stage.
Mr Trudeau was more subtle, though his campaign was woven through with a thread of nostalgia, from a promise to recommit troops to overseas peacekeeping efforts to a foreign policy return to when Canadians thought the world saw the country as its good neighbour.
After winning the election, Mr Trudeau and his MPs made "Canada is back" one of their favourite catchphrases.
5. They followed in their fathers' footsteps.
Fred Trump, the first New York real estate magnate in the Trump family, started a million dollar residential real estate business in Brooklyn and Queens.
The Donald learned the business from his father, switching from building low-income housing in New York City's outer-boroughs to luxury towers in downtown Manhattan.
Justin Trudeau grew up surrounded by politics and was once toasted by former US President Richard Nixon, who predicted the young boy would one day become prime minister like his father Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Trudeau  senior served as in that role from 1968 to 1979 and again from 1980 to 1984, becoming one of Canada's most recognisable leaders.