A young barn owl set a distance record by flying from Kerry in the Republic of Ireland to Londonderry in Northern Ireland, only to be killed by a car on arrival.

The juvenile bird had flown 220 miles - almost double the distance previously recorded on the island of Ireland.
It was found dead on the Limavady Road in Derry by a volunteer worker with the Ulster Wildlife Trust.
It had been ringed as a chick at a nest site in Kerry the previous summer.
After their first winter, juvenile barn owls disperse to establish their own hunting and breeding grounds, but the average distance they travel is usually about 20 miles.
The young birds are vulnerable during this process and more than 30% of them are killed on the roads.
Ulster Wildlife's barn owl officer Catherine Fegan said: "It is very sad that this juvenile travelled so far to end up as road victim.
"However, this new information shows how important ringing chicks is to further understanding barn owl behaviour in Ireland."
There are between 30 and 50 breeding pairs of barn owls in Northern Ireland.
The trust said that if  juvenile birds can survive their first year after relocating, it could help boost the numbers in Northern Ireland.
The barn owl is a red-listed species in Northern Ireland, meaning it has the highest conservation status.
It is silent in flight but often referred to as the screech owl due to its ear-splitting call.
The Ulster Wildlife Trust is involved in a three-year project to help halt the decline of the barn owl.
It includes working with farmers to improve habitat and provide nest sites and mapping breeding sites.


Five teenagers have been arrested in Londonderry following a third night of trouble.

Police received reports of young people setting pallets and rubbish on fire in the Lecky Road and Westland Street areas on Tuesday night.
Petrol bombs and missiles were thrown at police in the area.
Four teenage boys, one aged 14 and three aged 16, were arrested on suspicion of riotous behaviour.
They were later released on police bail pending further enquiries.
A 16-year-old boy was also arrested in the Collon Lane area on suspicion of disorderly behaviour.
He has been released pending a report to the Public Prosecution Service.
Ch Insp Andy Lemon said: "The prompt actions of our officers prevented a reoccurrence of the disorder we saw the previous night.
"It is concerning to see teenagers, some as young as 14, getting caught up in this violence and I appeal to parents to make it their business to know where their children are and what they are doing.
"Young people need to listen to our message. You run the very real risk of being arrested and getting a criminal record which could affect your life for a very long time."


World number three Neil Robertson and three time-champion John Higgins moved into the UK Championship quarter-finals with contrasting victories in York.

Robertson, the 2013 winner, made three centuries and two fifty-plus breaks as he won six frames in a row to beat world number 15 Stephen Maguire 6-1.
In the battle of Maguire's fellow Scots, a nervy Higgins held off Jamie Burnett's comeback to progress 6-4.
World number seven Higgins led 4-1 but lost three frames in a row.
Higgins, who faces Robertson in the last eight, told BBC Sport: "It was a big scare. I thought it was going to 5-5 so I was so pleased to win 6-4.
"If it goes 5-5 it's a toss of a coin. Jamie had a chance at 4-4 but missed a red and he will be kicking himself because I was really struggling.
"If he had gone 5-4 in front I am sure he would have won the game."
Higgins, winner of 28 ranking events including two this season, started impressively enough with three breaks of more than 50 earning a 3-0 lead.
But at 4-1 ahead, he missed numerous simple pots and Burnett grew in confidence.
Higgins settled his nerves with a brilliant 102 to go ahead and settled the match with a break of 71 - his fifth half-century.
Robertson had no such trouble in his win over Maguire.
A superb ton earned the Scot the opening frame, but he barely had a look-in after that.
"He was awesome. If he plays like that then he wins the tournament," Maguire told BBC Sport.
"That was a lesson. If I go back in time I couldn't really doing anything about it. But he can't keep that up, it's impossible. He was potting everything."
Maguire's opening-frame 118 was followed by breaks of 124, 76 and 101 by Cambridge-based Australian Robertson as he established a 3-1 interval lead.
The Scot, UK champion in 2004, was then incredibly unfortunate to go in off when on course to win the fifth frame.
Robertson took full advantage, winning that crucial frame and closing out victory with a break of 113.
Robertson, who had 97% pot success, said: "That was the best I have played all season, without a doubt. I played great but I knew I had to.
"I have to maintain my focus and keep my foot down.
"He looked in really good nick in that first frame and didn't really have a chance up until 3-1 when he was unfortunate to go in off the yellow.
"That was the only obvious mistake he made - even though it was very unlucky."
China's Liang Wenbo joined Robertson in the last eight, beating Englishman Tom Ford 6-5 in a tense final-frame match that lasted more than four hours.
And Londoner Martin Gould was a comfortable winner over Northern Ireland's Joe Swail, earning a 6-3 victory to complete the quarter-final line-up.


The man who is leading an inquiry into the UK bank accounts market has been accused of 'laziness' by a group of MPs.

Alasdair Smith - from the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) - came under fire from MPs on the Treasury Select Committee.
Last month the CMA produced its initial report on the current account market.
Mr Smith was repeatedly pressed to say how much consumers actually pay for supposedly free bank accounts.
Customers often forego credit interest, for example.
But while Mr Smith knew how much his own account cost, he said he was not able to give MPs any figures for other consumers.
Committee member Mark Garnier was highly critical.
"The answers you are coming up with appear to be lazy," he said.
"You haven't challenged the banks to come up with the costs. You have had the wool pulled over your eyes."
Mr Smith said there were "inherent difficulties" about answering that.
"But providing information to customers is at the centre of what we do," he said.
And he said the CMA - which is due to make a final report next summer - would consider "all possible routes".
Nevertheless he was repeatedly pressed by the committee's chairman, Andrew Tyrie, to provide a "bottom-line number" that would allow consumers to compare the costs of different accounts.
Further criticism came from a letter from the boss of Tesco Bank, which was read out to the committee.
"This report (from the CMA) has only begun to scratch the surface," wrote Benny Higgins, the chief executive of Tesco Bank.
"We must increase the transparency around the true costs customers incur when using their current accounts," he wrote.
The CMA report concluded that so-called "free-if-in-credit" accounts should be allowed to continue.
Such accounts have been described as a "con-trick" by Andrew Tyrie, as they do not show the true cost to the consumer.


Police are searching for a driver who fled after an apparent hit-and-run crash in which two men died.

The driver of a BMW, a man in his 40s, left the scene on foot after the crash in Yaxley, near Peterborough, just after 11:10 GMT.
A helicopter and dog unit were brought into to help in the search for the man but he remains at large.
The air ambulance was called for the two pedestrians but they died at the scene, Cambridgeshire Police said.
The two victims are believed to be in their late teens or early 20s.
Police are still trying to trace their next of kin.
Officers are looking into whether the crash is connected to a report from a member of the public that a man had entered their home.
A briefcase containing "a quantity of cash" was also found in the Yaxley area, the force said.
Earlier, police said the circumstances surrounding the deaths were unclear.
The force said the crash was "initially recorded as an RTC (road traffic collision)", but added: "However, we are not sure of what has happened at this time."
The B1091 Broadway remains closed in both directions.


Kenya's Vivian Cheruiyot won a shock 5,000m Olympic gold as race favourite Ayana Almaz of Ethiopia took bronze.

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Almaz, 24, had won the 10,000m in world record time last week and had been expected to complete the 10,000m and 5,000m double.
But she was overhauled by Cheruiyot, 32, and her Kenyan compatriot Hellen Onsando Obiri, 26, who took silver.
Cheruiyot set an Olympic record time of 14 minutes 26.17 seconds. Britain's Eilish McColgan was 13th in 15:12.09.
"It's my fourth Olympics and I hadn't had gold. Today I said 'I am not going to lose'," said Cheruiyot, who was runner-up to Almaz in the 10,000m in Rio and the London 2012 5,000m silver medallist.
McColgan said: "Yes, I'm actually disappointed although it's good that I am disappointed. At the start of the year if someone had said that, I would have taken it.
"Looking at the other girls' personal bests I thought that I should be around the top eight and to come 13th, I'm really disappointed. I'm in better shape than that.
"To go and run 15:12, I don't think I've done myself justice but it was good experience and that burst of pace, I'm not used to doing it and I need to mentally get ready for it. "
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The BBC has launched a new app that presents a selection of the broadcaster's online content chosen to appeal to each user's interests.

BBC+ is available on iOS and Android. It brings together news, iPlayer content, weather forecasts, recipes and more.
Users must have signed up for an account, which lets the BBC track their use of the software.
One expert questioned how much appetite there would be for the service.
It is the 15th app to be offered by the BBC, excluding those launched by its commercial arm BBC Worldwide.
"This follows a growing trend to have a super app which is a one-stop destination for a broad range of content and services," said Paolo Pescatore, from the CCS Insight consultancy.
"But the BBC, like others, needs to be very careful it does not overwhelm its customers with too many apps.
"Research has shown that there is growing 'app-athy' amongst consumers who can't cope with the sheer number of apps they end up with on their phones.
"The danger is that they use an app once and never return to it as it gets buried amongst other apps already installed - that is terrible for long-term consumer engagement."
The BBC recently announced one of its other apps - BBC Newsbeat - would soon close, and its youth-focused content would be rolled into the main BBC News app.
That decision was made, in part, because it had not attracted as many users as hoped.
"Audiences... are telling us that, online, BBC News is the brand," said BBC head of news James Harding at the time.
When people first use BBC+, it asks them to choose at least three topics from a list of more than 50 options.
Examples include:
The app then creates a scrollable "at a glance" feed and the option to click through to specific themed pages.
Once the user has flicked through all the options, they are presented with a page saying: "You're up to date!".
At present, the app appears low down in Apple's App Store and Google Play when searched for, but over time this should improve.
Many users had already signed up to have a myBBC account ahead of the new app's launch.
The feature allows the broadcaster to target its content and make it a smoother experience for users to move from one device to another while using its services.
Having an account is optional on some apps, such as BBC News, but obligatory on others, including BBC Music and BBC Bitesize.
"As seven million people have signed up to myBBC, we are increasingly able to provide them with more of what they love based on what they've told us," said Paul Owen, head of BBC+.
"BBC+ is a key part of the journey towards achieving a much more personal BBC, and truly brings topical information from across the whole organisation to your pocket, ready for you to access at your convenience."
The BBC has promised not to sell the data it gathers and allows users to delete information held about them.
But Mr Pescatore said gathering the data would give the BBC a competitive advantage.
"There is a huge vested interest for the BBC to get consumers signed up with a BBC ID," he said.
"If this app helps get people on board it will be yet another threat to other news outlets and broadcasters."


Forfar continued their perfect start to the League Two campaign with a 1-0 victory in their top-of-the-table clash with Clyde.

Elgin climbed up to third after three first-half goals helped them to a 4-0 victory over Stirling at Forthbank.
Basement club Edinburgh City battled back to earn their second point of the season in a 1-1 draw at Annan.
Arbroath played out a 0-0 draw with Cowdenbeath, while Montrose's clash with Berwick also ended goalless.
In the big game at Broadwood, Thomas O'Brien scored the only goal five minutes before the break to hand Forfar their seventh straight league win.
The victory takes Gary Bollan's side eight points clear of nearest challengers Clyde.
Elgin broke the deadlock in the fifth minute when Shane Sutherland fired the ball past home goalkeeper Chris Smith, before Chris Dodd doubled the visitors' lead just three minutes later.
Sutherland made it 3-0 on the half-hour mark and Jim Weir's side added a fourth in the 89th minute when Craig Gunn struck his fourth league goal of the season.
Second-bottom Stirling announced the departure of manager Stuart McLaren following the defeat.
Annan drew first blood against Edinburgh after 29 minutes when David McKenna rifled home, but City were back on terms three minutes into the second half courtesy of an own goal from Steven Swinglehurst.


Following the terror attacks in Brussels, campaigners on both sides of the EU referendum debate have been making claims about whether the UK is safer in or out of the European Union.

In particular, they've stressed the importance of border controls, intelligence sharing, and the role of European courts in Britain's security. The BBC's Reality Check team has taken a closer look at the facts behind the claims.
The biggest issue for many campaigners is how much difference the EU's rules on freedom of movement make to Britain's ability to police its borders.
At the very start of the referendum campaign, Iain Duncan Smith claimed Britain's "open border does not allow us to check and control people that may come", and that made attacks like the ones in Paris in November 2015 more likely in the UK.
On the other side of the argument, Sir David Omand, former director of GCHQ, said: "We are part of an established information sharing network with our partners whilst still retaining control of our border."
So what are the facts? EU freedom of movement allows citizens of all the other 27 EU countries to travel freely to the UK, to visit, study or work.
There is a UK border, and everyone, including citizens of EU-member states, has to produce a passport to cross it. In practice, holders of EU passports are not routinely subjected to detailed checks.
The UK is not a member of the Schengen area of borderless travel. Most EU countries are, as well as some non-EU countries like Switzerland and Norway.
Lack of internal border checks within Schengen has enabled terrorists - and their weapons - to move freely across continental EU, to execute attacks and to escape.
Being outside Schengen and being an island makes travel to the UK harder for potential attackers. But, as noted above, they are not likely to be subject to detailed checks when they try to cross into the UK if they hold an EU passport.
In the wake of the Paris November 2015 attacks, the EU renewed efforts to improve sharing of passenger name record data for flights and there were also calls for the establishment of an EU-wide intelligence service.
One of the most important counter-terrorism measures is sharing information between different security services.
There is no EU-wide intelligence-sharing arrangement, and nor is there likely to be any time soon.
Security and intelligence services are intrinsically secret organisations which share their information only with those they trust to keep their secrets too. That does not apply uniformly across the 28 member states of the EU.
The UK's biggest intelligence relationships lie outside the EU. It shares intelligence with the US and with three other English-speaking countries: Canada, Australia and New Zealand, forming the "five eyes" alliance.
There are direct agreements between certain member states. These are not dependent on membership of the EU - so would they change in the event of Brexit?
Not likely, according to Sir Richard Dearlove, former director of MI6.
In an interview for Prospect magazine, he said: "Britain is Europe's leader in intelligence and security matters and gives much more than it gets in return.
"It is difficult to imagine any of the other EU members ending the relationships they already enjoy with the UK."
While there is no EU-wide intelligence agency, there is an EU-wide enforcement agency - Europol.
It helps fight crime and terrorism across the EU by providing expertise, building criminal databases and supporting investigations on issues ranging from trafficking of people and drugs to money laundering and cyber-crime.
Europol's director, Rob Wainwright, says: "I have seen huge progress in the EU in building up a far stronger capability to fight terrorism and serious crime."
One such advance is the PrÃ¼m Convention, an agreement on sharing of DNA, fingerprint and vehicle information, to identify foreign criminals and solve serious crimes. Fourteen EU countries have signed it (the UK voted to join the agreement in December 2015) and it is open to all EU members.
There is also the Schengen Information Service, which is highly valued by UK officials for alerting them to suspects crossing borders.
Then there's the European Arrest Warrant, an EU-wide agreement, that speeds up and simplifies extradition procedures between EU countries.
Last year, the mechanism was used to extradite two British Islamist extremists, Trevor Brooks and Simon Keeler, from Hungary to the UK. In 2005, Hussain Osman, London underground bomber was extradited from Italy to the UK.
Analysis by Mark Urban, diplomatic and defence editor, Newsnight
While I have found many British military and intelligence experts who agree with Sir Richard that Nato defence arrangements and bilateral intelligence exchanges would probably continue unaltered by Brexit, the majority I've spoken to still express opposition to Britain leaving the EU.
They point to emerging security ties at the European level. Missing out on this, they argue, counts for more than the increased ability to control the movement of EU nationals that "outers" such as Iain Duncan Smith argue would make Britain more secure.
Read more of Mark's analysis here.
When campaigners talk about European courts threatening British security, they're usually referring to the role the courts play in deporting - or, more correctly, blocking the deportation of - criminals and terror suspects.
Most of the examples they're talking about, like the 12-year-long case of Abu Qatada, have been rulings emanating from the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) or rulings of British courts under the Human Rights Act (HRA).
Crucially, the ECHR is not an EU body. Its job is to uphold the European Convention on Human Rights which was drawn up after the Second World War, partly thanks to Winston Churchill. The Human Rights Act incorporates the convention into UK law.
So leaving the EU wouldn't be enough to get around the convention. The UK would also have to withdraw from the ECHR and abolish the Human Rights Act.
These are things David Cameron has said in the past he's prepared to do, so could the UK just leave the ECHR and remain in the EU? Tricky - legal opinion is divided on whether adherence to the ECHR is a condition of EU membership (as this House of Commons Library research paper makes clear).
Campaigners sometimes refer to another court: the European Court of Justice (ECJ). Its role is to uphold EU law including the right of free movement, and so it can rule on deportations.
Under EU rules, citizens of other EU countries can only be deported or denied entry on the grounds of public policy, public security or public health.
Holding a criminal conviction isn't enough. The person must pose a threat to the interests of society. And the threshold goes up after five and ten years of residence in the UK.
EU law also gives additional rights of entry and residence to the family members of EU citizens even if they're from elsewhere.
That means it's more difficult for Britain to deport or bar entry to criminals who are from the EU or related to EU citizens.
The ECJ is very definitely an EU institution, and so if the UK left the EU it would cease to be bound by its rulings. Instead the government could introduce new rules which made it easier to block people or throw them out, subject to other international agreements
READ MORE: The facts behind claims in the EU debate


At least 28 people are reported to have been killed in an air strike on a refugee camp in rebel-held northern Syria, monitors say.

Images on social media showed tents destroyed at the Kamouna camp near Sarmada in Idlib province, close to the Turkish border.
Some reports say the attack was by Syrian or Russian warplanes but this has not been confirmed.
The strike comes a day after the extension of a truce was confirmed.
The Syrian military and non-jihadist rebel forces had agreed to a temporary truce around the city of Aleppo, following pressure from the US and Russia.
A nationwide cessation of hostilities has been in place since February, but it has come under severe pressure recently, particularly around Aleppo, where some 300 people have died in clashes over the past two weeks.
The UN has warned that if the nationwide cessation fails, it will be "catastrophic" and could send 400,000 more people heading for refuge at the border with Turkey.
The Kamouna camp for the internally displaced is about 4km from Sarmada and 10km from the Turkish border.
The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a UK-based monitoring group, reported that 28 people had been killed, including women and children, and that 50 more were wounded.
The Local Co-ordination Committees, an opposition activist network, said about 30 people had been killed and dozens wounded.
Images on its Facebook page showed the aftermath of fires among the blue tents in the camp, with the ground still smouldering.
The Syria Civil Defence, a group of volunteer rescue workers, gave a similar number of civilian deaths.
The White House condemned the attack.
Spokesman Josh Earnest said: "These individuals are in the most desperate situation imaginable, and there is no justification for carrying out military action targeting them."
UK Foreign Secretary Philip Hammond said the attack was "horrifying", adding: "The [Bashar al-] Assad regime's contempt for efforts to restore the cessation of hostilities in Syria is clear for all to see."
EU humanitarian aid commissioner Christos Stylianides tweeted: "Shocking bombardment of refugee camp on Syria/Turkey border is unacceptable. My thoughts are with the people who suffered already enough."
The fighting in Aleppo early this week has been the most intense there for more than a year.
The Observatory said rebels had advanced into government-held western districts on Tuesday night but were pushed back by Wednesday morning.
Rebels began observing a ceasefire there on Wednesday and the Syrian military announced a 48-hour truce in the city from Thursday morning.
Some rocket attacks were reported on government-held areas on Thursday, but the intense air force strikes of recent days were absent.
The nationwide partial truce agreement does not include so-called Islamic State or the al-Qaeda-affiliated Nusra Front.
Fighting involving government forces and jihadist groups continued on Thursday, with clashes reported near Khan Touman, south of Aleppo.
IS militants captured the Shaer gas field in the east of the country, killing 30 troops, monitors said, while Russian jets were reported to have struck militants in Sukhna, north-west of Palmyra in central Syria.


League Two side Colchester United have signed Arsenal midfielder Glen Kamara and Reading winger Tarique Fosu on loan until January.

Kamara, 20, made six appearances on loan at Colchester's Essex rivals Southend last campaign.
Fosu, also 20, has had previous loan spells at Fleetwood and Accrington.
He comes in following news that U's winger Courtney Senior will be out for up to a year after having surgery on an anterior cruciate ligament injury.
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A secondary school has ruled parents must pay a compulsory charge of at least £149 for pupils to use Google Chromebooks in lessons.

Tring School in Hertfordshire said the laptop devices will be brought into use from next year.
But more than 100 people have signed an online petition against the plans.
Headteacher Sue Collins said the school was having to manage an £800,000 per year cut in its budget from the government.
The Chromebooks for Learning Scheme will affect hundreds of students at the school, which has more than 1,500 pupils aged from 11-19, with only years 11 and 13 exempt.
There are two options available, a £149 model and a £185 model, although pupils from disadvantaged backgrounds can pay £20.
The school said students "need to be prepared for an increasingly digital world".
It is offering payment plans, but many parents and pupils said the devices should be provided by the school.
The petition's organisers said people were being forced to pay when there were "perfectly good computers at the school".
Ms Collins said she "wholeheartedly accepted" parents concerns but insisted the school was having to manage a budget cut.
"It is absolutely enormous to manage that and at the same time raise standards and continue to develop so that our children have access to the online and modern materials that are out there now," she said.
"There isn't a U-turn on this, we're rolling it out. We know from the research we've done, this is the way forward for schools."


The ending of European Union roaming charges for people using mobile phones abroad moved closer after a provisional deal in the European Parliament.

The plan to cap wholesale charges that telecoms operators pay each other is the final piece of a long-running plan to end roaming fees so people can use phones abroad at no additional cost.
It decides how much operators must pay for using other companies' networks.
The full European Parliament and EU member states must confirm the deal.
Consumers pay roaming charges whenever they connect to an operator based abroad. The charges are in addition to the cost of the call itself, and for short calls they can make up a large proportion of the overall fee.
The new caps have to be low enough for operators to be able to offer fee-free roaming to customers without putting up domestic prices, but high enough so they can recover their costs.
There should also be enough money in the system for continuing maintenance and upgrading of networks.
"This decision is the final step in a process that started 10 years ago," said Dr Emmanuel Mallia, the Maltese Minister for Competitiveness and Digital, Maritime and Services Economy.
"From next summer, wherever they are travelling in Europe, citizens will be able to make calls, send texts, surf and stay connected. Roam like at home is now a reality."
Under the agreement, the wholesale charge for data will drop from the current cap of 50 euros (Â£43) per gigabyte (gb) to 7.7 euros (Â£6.60) per gb on 15 June.
The price will drop again on 1 January every year until January 2022 when it will be 2.5 euros (Â£2) per gb.
Calls will fall from 0.05 euros (4p) per minute to 0.032 euros (3p) on 15 June, and text messages will go down from 0.02 euros (2p) to 0.01 euros (1p) per message.
The charges will be reviewed every two years and new caps proposed if necessary. The first report is due out at the end of 2019.


Aberdeen have signed Norwich City midfielder James Maddison on loan until January.

The 19-year-old joined Alex Neil's club in January for £6m from Coventry City on a three-and-a-half-year-deal.
He was loaned back to the English League One side for the rest of the season, making 31 appearances and scoring four times.
Maddison made his Norwich debut against his old club in a 6-1 League Cup win last week, playing the full 90 minutes.
"I am really excited to get James," Aberdeen manager Derek McInnes told the club's website.
"James is a player with great talent and hopefully playing with us he will get a chance to showcase that.
"He can play in a number of positions in midfield and he is also a creative player. He is very good technically, he can make the difference in a tight game and is someone who I really hope will enjoy himself here.
"James is coming up to play with some very good players which he recognises. He recognises the demands of the club but all that was a big attraction for him.
"There were a lot of clubs interested in him because he is a good player but when we spoke to his agent and to James it was clear they seen Aberdeen as the preferred option which pleases me no end.
"He is here until January. We are comfortable with that and so are Norwich. We will see what transpires from there."
McInnes also dismissed rumours that winger Jonny Hayes would be leaving.
"I have taken a few phone calls over the past few days about potential players on loan. I have had no inquiries about Jonny," he said.
"Jonny is expected to be back in full training with us on Monday and is eager to play his part in helping us get into some kind of rhythm between now and the winter break in January.
"Hopefully with Jonny and James added to the squad we can be optimistic about getting the results we are looking for."


A priest at the centre of claims of sexual and physical abuse at a Catholic orphanage was arrested in 2003.

Former residents have alleged they were abused by Father John Ryan at St Francis Boys Home in Shefford, near Bedford, in the 1950s and 1960s.
The BBC understands Fr Ryan, who died in 2008, was released without charge.
The Crown Prosecution Service said it was trying to establish whether it was contacted by Bedfordshire Police to give advice during the investigation.
Bedfordshire Police started a new investigation after a former resident alleged he was sexually abused by Fr Ryan.
The man, who is now in his 50s and cannot named for legal reasons, told the BBC last month: "Father Ryan abused me. He used to get me up to his office. Then he turned round and said 'If you let me fondle you, I won't hit you'.
"It took place every six months. I was a pet. He ruined those years. It was terrible."
The BBC has since heard of a large number of cases of alleged physical abuse by Fr Ryan.
Willy O'Brien, 63, who now lives in El Paso, Texas, said he hoped the new police investigation would have more success than the 2003 inquiry.
"The orphanage was like in Oliver Twist. I was beaten until I bled," he said.
Sidney Hibbitt, 64, of Biggleswade, Bedfordshire, said as well as regular physical abuse, some boys were sexually assaulted.
Gordon McIntosh, 63, of Roehampton, south-west London, said a number of former residents were looking at starting legal action and were meeting for a reunion on 22 June.
"I suffered physical canings and beatings," said Mr McIntosh.
Damian Chittock, 51, of Tower Hamlets, east London, called on the church to issue an apology to boys at the home who were allegedly abused.
Bedfordshire Police said: "We have received a complaint concerning St Francis Boys Home and are in the early stages of an investigation."
A spokesman for the Northamptonshire Diocese of the Catholic Church, which ran the home, said it "deeply regrets" any hurt caused, but stressed the "claims are not proven".


Fifteen birds of prey were killed in Northern Ireland last year, according to a new report from the RSPB.

Almost half of the cases were caused by poisoning.
Buzzards, red kites and a peregrine falcon were amongst the birds targeted. The worst area was in County Down, where seven birds were found dead.
The charity says that is "very concerning" as it is where it is trying to reintroduce the red kite.
At present there are 12 breeding pairs - well short of the 50 pairs needed for a sustainable population.
The project suffered a blow in 2014 when a member of the public contacted the charity about a possible poisoning incident.
A nest, near Katesbridge, was found to contain a dead female and two dead chicks.
"The problem is a constant battle and will only be won through raising awareness and concerted efforts to identify and penalise the minority of people who threaten these birds' very existence," said Michelle Hill, senior conservation officer with RSPBNI.
This report follows on from another last week that found 33 birds of prey had been killed in Northern Ireland between 2009 and 2013.


Actress Dame Helen Mirren has testified for US politicians about the slow pace of restitution of looted Jewish art.

She recently portrayed the struggle of a Jewish woman, Maria Altmann, to reclaim a painting by Klimt confiscated by the Nazis in the film Woman in Gold.
The Oscar-winning star spoke to a Senate judiciary subcommittee hearing on the Holocaust Expropriated Art Recovery (Hear) Act on Tuesday.
"The right thing to do is to return the art to its rightful owners," she said.
The subcommittee held the hearing to examine a bill to "provide the victims of Holocaust-era persecution and their heirs a fair opportunity to recover works of art confiscated or misappropriated by the Nazis".
Dame Helen told the Senate: "When the Jewish people were dispossessed of their art, they lost heritage. Memories were taken along with the art and to have no memories is like having no family. And that is why art restitution is so imperative."
The Nazis seized the possessions of Mrs Altmann's wealthy Jewish family soon after they came to power in Austria in 1938. Portrayed by Dame Helen in 2015, she died in 2011, aged 94, having been awarded Â£11m in compensation for the theft.
Having reclaimed Gustav Klimt's 1907 portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer I, known as The Lady in Gold, she sold it to the Neue Galerie in New York for Â£73m - on the condition it was always on display.
Dame Helen said that 70 years after World War Two, it was "a terribly sad fact that victims of the Holocaust and their families are still contemplating whether to seek restitution for what was stolen from them and lost under the most horrible of circumstances".
She said the lives of "so many people" could be "rejuvenated through the actions and the leadership of the US Congress to ensure that fair and equitable solutions in these cases are assured".
"But a lack of transparency, a lack of access to information concerning the location of stolen art and a lack of a legal assurance that at least they can have their say in court - this discourages them from taking action," she added.
"The very act of Nazi expropriation was not only unjust but it was unconscionably inhumane. We are incapable of changing the past but fortunately we have the ability to make change today."
Dame Helen ended her testimony by thanking the Senate for "your leadership and your efforts to address these issues in these modest reforms contained in the Hear Act".
"By ensuring that at least here, in the United States, access to justice and the courts will be ensured".


The vice-chancellors of Queen's University and Ulster University have said serious decisions need to be taken over the future funding of higher education in Northern Ireland.

The head of Queen's, Prof Patrick Johnston, told the BBC's Inside Business programme a rise in tuition fees, or a return to public funding, was required to bridge a Â£100m gap.
"We have some very critical decisions as a society to make very, very quickly, because we're already in trouble" he said.
"We're bringing corporation tax in in 2018, we actually today don't have the graduates to fill those jobs.
"We have to either come up with a number of solutions, one of which might be the public purse begins to fund the full investment in higher education that is needed, either fees or we have to get back to public funding."
Inside Business is on BBC Radio Ulster and Radio Foyle at 13:30 BST on Sunday.


A charity climber has revealed how his wife sent him text messages to say goodbye after fearing he had been killed in the Nepal earthquake.

Sharon McMurray, from Towcester, sent the messages during eight hours when she thought husband Tony, 46, had died.
Mr McMurray, who was at Everest base camp hours before it was devastated by a landslide, said the experience would "live with me for the rest of my life".
More than 6,000 people are now known to have died in the disaster.
Mr McMurray, who was trekking in the Himalayas to raise money for the Alzheimer's Society, said he was a few hours into his return journey when "one almighty shake hit the mountain".
"There was a loud bomb like a multi-nuclear bomb going off," he said.
"The very place our tents had been two hours earlier was no longer there."
He said he and fellow travellers had slept with their sleeping bags undone and trainers on "ready to run" for the next four days as aftershocks hit the area.
One of them brought down the side of a monastery.
"There were screams, there was crying, there was grief," said Mr McMurray.
He said he hugged locals whose family members had died.
When he finally got to safety he was able to open up text messages and "emails from every corner of the globe," including from wife Sharon.
"Some of the messages Sharon sent, I will probably have a good cry over," he said.
"Basically it was her saying goodbye to me."
Mr Murray said the first thing he would do when he got home was give Sharon a hug and "have a mug of English tea".


An investigation is to be launched after a de-icing vehicle crashed into an Easyjet plane at Belfast International Airport.

It happened at about 16:00 GMT on Sunday while the Belfast-to-Amsterdam flight was waiting to take off.
Passengers were on board the already-delayed flight while waiting for the aircraft to be de-iced.
Alan Whiteside, operations director at the airport, said the flight was cancelled due to damage to the plane.
He told the BBC's Good Morning Ulster programme that de-icing takes place "in very close proximity" to the aircraft - with one member of staff driving the vehicle and another applying the de-icer.
"Unfortunately, on this occasion, it came into contact with the plane," he said. "It doesn't take much to damage an aircraft.
"Any damage at all will be of concern to the engineers and they will err on the side of caution."
Mr Whiteside said there was "never any danger to the passengers or any crew".
An Easyjet spokesperson said the safety and wellbeing of passengers and crew was always the carrier's highest priority.
"The captain kept the passengers informed and they were given the option of being rebooked onto the next available flight, or obtain a refund," said the spokesperson.
Passengers were offered meals and hotel accommodation if required, and the company has apologised for any inconvenience caused.


A 26-year-old man has died in a shark attack on the north-west coast of Reunion in the Indian Ocean.

The man was bodyboarding in the mouth of the Mat River with friends who saw the attack, said local media reports.
It took place in a zone where water activities were banned. Fishermen told reporters they warned the bodyboarders that sharks were in the area.
Local authorities issued a statement urging members of the public to observe prohibitions in force.
This is the 20th shark attack - eight of which have been fatal - off Reunion since 2011. The island is part of France and has a population of almost 850,000.
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Amid the rash of attacks, which have rattled authorities in the popular tourist destination, measures to prevent shark attacks have been brought in such as shark nets, beach monitoring and swimming bans.
But the island remains one of the most shark-infested spots in the world and reports suggest surf tourism has been hit hard.


Australia's states and territories have decided not to remove an unpopular tax on female sanitary products.

Unlike products such as condoms and sunscreen, sanitary products attract the 10% goods and services tax (GST) because they are deemed non-essentials.
A recent petition against so-called tampon tax attracted 90,000 signatures, and a rap was created and rallies held to campaign against it.
But the treasurers' meeting on Friday failed to agree on removing it.
All state and territory governments have to agree for changes to be made to the GST.
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Treasurer Joe Hockey had promised to raise this tax issue with state treasurers, saying he believed tampons and sanitary pads were essential items.
But removing it would have left an estimated tax shortfall of at least $30m Australian (Â£14m; $22m) annually.
The treasurers did agree, however, to expand the GST to include all online purchases of goods and services sold into Australia from offshore from 1 July, 2017.
Currently, the tax only applies to foreign products and services bought online that are valued over A$1,000 ($731; Â£466).
Australian "bricks and mortar" retailers have long argued that offshore vendors enjoyed an unfair advantage because of the way the tax was applied, particularly in light of the growing popularity of online shopping.
Mr Hockey told reporters at a press conference that local retailers were suffering a competitive disadvantage because they were paying more tax than their foreign online competitors.
"This has put our businesses, our workers at a competitive disadvantage," Mr Hockey said.


Former Scotland defender Stephen McManus believes John Souttar has the potential to play for his country but should not be rushed into the squad.

The Hearts centre-back, 19, needs more top-level experience, McManus believes, before he is ready to challenge for a senior Scotland call-up.
He is certain, though, that Souttar has the attributes to eventually make the grade at international level.
"He's going to be a tremendous asset for the country," said McManus, 34.
"He's not played in a lot of high-profile games, [but] he's developing very well. It's important with guys like that, that you don't pin all your hopes on them, because it puts pressure on their shoulders when they're so young.
"You need to nurture them. He's at a very good club with good people in charge. He's just got to concentrate on playing week in, week out at Hearts and performing the best he possibly can.
"Unfortunately for John just now, he's not tasting Champions League football, or European football.
"The one thing you know is going to happen with young centre-halves is that they're going to make mistakes. The one thing you need to do is earn the manager's trust, at international and club level, and you can only do that by limiting your mistakes and playing week in, week out."
Motherwell's McManus believes Scotland Under-21 cap Souttar can take "a lot of positives" from fellow Tynecastle defender Callum Paterson's place in Gordon Strachan's senior Scotland side.
"He [Souttar] will think there's no reason he can't be the next one," McManus explained. "Just now, the right thing is to go with the players who are there, the ones with experience. If John Souttar keeps progressing, he'll get in the squad soon enough.
"Of course you want players who are playing week in, week out, but the lads, especially the centre-halves like Russell Martin, Grant Hanley, Gordon Greer, they're experienced enough now, they know how to look after their bodies, they're professional."
Scotland opened their World Cup qualifying campaign with a 5-1 win over Malta on 4 September and the national team's next game is at home to Lithuania next month.
McManus scored when Scotland defeated Lithuania 3-1 at Hampden in 2007 and is confident, having worked with them both, that the management team of Strachan and Mark McGhee can steer Scotland to World Cup qualification.
McGhee is McManus's boss at Well and the defender previously worked with Strachan at Celtic and Middlesbrough.
"If I was with the group just now, I wouldn't want to work with anybody else than those two," McManus added.
"They're both managers, very good on the training ground, and they trust each other, they work well together.
"I believe in the group of players, the squad is settled and there are some very good players, who are starting to hit a bit of form."


Local authorities across England have been warned not to expect residents to have to pay some of their own care-home fees if they cut council funding.

The Local Government Ombudsman issued the ruling after adjudicating a case involving Tameside Council.
Tony Cryer, 43, from Droylsden, complained about having to pay Â£88 per week when the council threatened to move his mother, 80, to another home.
Tameside Council said it "strongly disputed" the ombudsman's findings.
"It has come too late for my mum [she died in March] and dad. All I can hope is that there will be justice for the other 160 [affected] residents in Tameside," said Mr Cryer.
He was told by the authority in March 2013 that his mother Jean, who had dementia, would be moved if she could not pay more towards her care.
Mr Cryer said Age Concern had advised him that it was not in his mother's best health interests to move.
As a result, he paid nearly Â£4,000 for his mother's care in the 12 months until her death.
"We were given an impossible choice really," said Mr Cryer, who said he felt obliged to pay.
Local Government Ombudsman Jane Martin said: "I urge all authorities to look very closely at their plans, if they are changing care commissioning in their area, to ensure that no vulnerable residents are placed in a similar position."
A Tameside Council spokesman said: "The report is fundamentally flawed in a number of respects, and there are question marks around whether the ombudsman has unlawfully exceeded her powers in issuing the report."
The council also rejected the ombudsman's call for 160 residents to have their cases reviewed, saying only 10 were affected.


Last week, the DUP and Sinn Féin crossed swords over the wisdom of delaying finding a solution to Stormont's welfare reform difficulties until after next month's Westminster election.

The DUP leader Peter Robinson said that "by refusing to settle this matter until after the election, Sinn Féin will cause further cuts to public services.  No doubt when services are cut Sinn Féin will, without embarrassment, blame everyone else".
Sinn Féin's negotiator Conor Murphy denied his party was to blame over the delay in resolving the welfare stand-off.
He insisted Sinn Féin's full negotiating team had been ready to discuss any proposals and told BBC's Inside Politics programme about his frustration at waiting for documents from the DUP-led Department for Social Development (DSD).
If the Stormont welfare negotiations are going nowhere this side of the election, then the logical reason would be that the parties want to see the colour of any future UK government's money.
It is fair to assume that a Conservative-led government would deliver more of the same, with George Osborne already on record predicting a further £12bn of welfare savings.
A Labour-led government is a different prospect. Martin McGuinness says he thinks Labour "gets" the welfare issue, but what does their manifesto have to say on the topic?
As expected, Labour reiterated that it intends to abolish the so-called "bedroom tax" or spare room subsidy, which it describes as cruel.  According to Peter Robinson in a recent Inside Politics interview, that could save Stormont around £20m per year in mitigation costs.
However, the Labour manifesto also says that if the party forms the next government it "will cap structural social security expenditure in each spending review so that it is properly controlled" and pledges to "keep the household benefit cap and ask the Social Security Advisory Committee to examine if it should be lower in some areas".
That might put the dampeners on Martin McGuinness's hopes of getting a much better deal from Mr Miliband than the one on offer from Mr Cameron.
In these days of a likely hung parliament, every party's manifesto is less a promissory note and more an opening offer.
That will apply not just to any London-based discussions on forming a UK government, but also to any future talks aimed at resurrecting something from the ruins of the Stormont House Agreement.


The latest data for England shows prescriptions for antidepressants and drugs to tackle diabetes have gone up.

But doctors are giving out fewer antibiotics, the Health and Social Care Information Centre report suggests.
Figures show that more than one billion prescriptions were issued by doctors and other health staff in 2015 - more than double compared to a decade ago.
And for the ninth year in a row, diabetes drugs cost the most to the NHS - at Â£2.6m per day.
Antidepressants were also high on the list costing the NHS Â£780,000 per day.
Vicki Nash, at the mental health charity Mind, said prescriptions issued for depression have been on a persistent and upward trend for many years.
She added: "It may be that more people are coming forward and seeking help, or that doctors are getting better at spotting the symptoms of mental health problems, but these are unlikely to be the only reasons.
"It is vital we better understand exactly how many people are taking antidepressants, for how long and whether they are receiving other treatment alongside medication, as recommended in NICE guidance."
The charity said that while cognitive behavioural therapy and counselling were becoming more widely available, talking therapies were still not available to everyone who needed them.
The figures show prescriptions for antibacterial medicines - mainly antibiotics - fell by more than 5% compared with 2014.
The HSCIC report looked at the number of items written on prescriptions (such as courses of antibiotics) that were given out by doctors, dentists, nurses and pharmacists over the last year.


Amazon has sued four firms that pay people to produce reviews that then appear on the online retailer's site.

The company alleges that the paid opinions "undermine" its review system which customers believe come from unbiased sources.
Amazon is seeking damages from the four sites and wants them to stop producing the reviews.
The four companies named in the legal complaint have not yet responded to Amazon's allegations.
"While small in number, these reviews threaten to undermine the trust that customers, and the vast majority of sellers and manufacturers, place in Amazon, thereby tarnishing Amazon's brand," said the retailer in documents filed to the court in Washington.
As well as subverting the review process, Amazon accused the sites of trademark infringement, and violations of local consumer protection statutes and cybersquatting laws that govern who can own a domain name.
It alleged that the paid reviews were being placed on its site at a slow rate designed to outwit the detection system it ran to spot such content.  In its legal papers, Amazon said it verified its allegations by surreptitiously paying one of the services to write reports about products. This resulted in them getting "glowing" reviews, it said.
The legal papers name four review producers that operate via sites called buyazonreviews.com, buyamazonreviews.com, bayreviews.net and buyreviewsnow.com.
Since the legal action was filed two of the sites named have gone offline. Those still operating have yet to respond to the BBC's request for comments.
Mark Collins, who runs the Buy Amazon Reviews site, defended his business in an interview with The Seattle Times. He said the site did not provide "fake" reviews but provided "unbiased and honest" opinions about products.
The sites pay between $19-$22 (Â£13-Â£15) for each review which typically result in products getting a four or five star rating. Higher star ratings can often translate into higher sales.


Departing Northampton scrum-half Lee Dickson says he will leave Franklin's Garden's with "fond memories" before his move to Bedford as a player-coach.

Ex-England international Dickson, 32, won the Premiership and Challenge Cup and reached a Heineken Cup final.
"It's been an incredible nine years, I've met some unbelievable people, friends for life, played with some great players," said Dickson.
"I just think it's my time to move on and open the next chapter of my book."
He continued to BBC Radio Northampton: "I went down and met Bedford and knew that was the right place for me to further my coaching ability, working in schools and playing good rugby.
"I watched them in a pre-season game and watching them thought that's how rugby should be played."
Unless the unlikely event of a play-off for the final European Champions Cup spot takes place, Saturday's home fixture against Harlequins will be Dickson's 254th and final Saints match.
The former Newcastle man could face his brother Karl, 34, who will retire at the end of the season, in a match between sixth and seventh in the table.
"He's [Karl] done it the tough way. He went to university, started off at Bedford and climbed his way up to the Premiership," Dickson added.
"He's had an incredible career. I think it will be brilliant to have him here. Hopefully if I get on and he's involved to share the pitch and have a photo with the children together."


Army veterans have taken over the pub their regiment was formed in 312 years ago after it was at risk of closure.

The Staffordshire Regiment was formed in the King's Head in Lichfield in 1705.
When they heard the landlord was retiring and it may be turned into a bed and breakfast, veterans and well-wishers raised almost Â£65,000 to take over a 10-year lease.
A procession marked the opening of the pub, in Bird Street, on Saturday.
Veteran Geoff Pearce said: "Someone that lives locally saw the building advertised for sale - the outgoing landlord was retiring and, rumour had it, it was going to be turned into a bed and breakfast.
"I had a phonecall off one of my colleagues asking 'how do think about us buying the lease? I thought he'd lost the plot.
"The more I spoke to him the more he convinced me it could be a goer.
"It took two weeks for over 350 of the ex-members and the families to pledge Â£65,000. That's how much it meant to the veterans and the residents."
Steve Knight, a former corporal, said it was an "honour" to be the landlord.
Built in 1408, the pub is the oldest in the city. Colonel Luke Lillingston raised a regiment of volunteers in the pub on 25 March 1705.
In 1782 it was given the title of the 1st Staffordshire Regiment.
It has been used a meeting place for soldiers and veterans ever since.


A 16-year-old boy has been arrested on suspicion of attempted murder and wounding after two men were stabbed.

Gwent Police said the local men were injured in an incident on Bryn Road and Apollo Way in Blackwood, Caerphilly county, on Friday at about 23:15 BST.
Both men are in hospital and their conditions are unknown.
The arrested 16-year-old remains in custody. Police are appealing for witnesses.


Mikhail Kalashnikov's automatic rifle became one of the most familiar weapons on the planet.

It was employed by the armies of dozens of countries, and incorporated in several national flags.
But the AK47 also became a symbol of revolution around the world. It saw action on battlefields as diverse as Angola, Vietnam, Algeria and Afghanistan.
It was also heavily utilised by Palestinian groups and famously appeared in the hands of Osama bin Laden.
It's comparative simplicity made it cheap to manufacture as well as reliable and easy to maintain in the field. It became the most widely used assault rifle in the world.
Yet Kalashnikov, although honoured in Russia, made very little money from his gun and once complained he would have been financially better off designing a lawnmower.
Mikhail Kalashnikov was born on 10 November 1919 into a Russian peasant family in the village of Kurya, Altai Territory. He was one of 18 children, of whom only six survived.
He was called up by the Red Army in 1938, and his design skills were used to improve the effectiveness of arms and equipment used in Soviet tank regiments.
It was after he was wounded in October 1941, when the tank he commanded was struck by a German shell, that Kalashnikov began to design the firearm that was to make his name famous.
The German army had pioneered the concept of an assault rifle, a weapon that combined the accuracy of a conventional rifle with the firepower of a sub-machine gun.
Russian troops frequently found themselves outgunned by German weapons which were far superior to those available to the Soviet army.
While he was in hospital he was approached by a fellow soldier who asked why the Russian army could not come up with a gun that would match that of the Germans.
"So I designed a machine gun for a soldier," he said. "It was called an Avtomat Kalashnikova, the automatic weapon of Kalashnikov."
There were teething problems with early prototypes but in 1947 he completed the Avtomat Kalashnikova model 1947, the name quickly shortened to AK47.
The new rifle was adopted by the Soviet army in 1949 and Senior Sergeant Mikhail Timofeevitch Kalashnikov was awarded the Stalin Prize First Class.
It was just one of many awards he was to be given, among them three Orders of Lenin and the Hero of Socialist Labour.
In 1987 he was made an honourable citizen of Izhevsk, where he had lived and worked from 1949. On his 75th birthday, he was promoted to Major-General by President Boris Yeltsin.
However the simplicity of his weapon meant that he failed to gain much financial benefit from his invention.
Dozens of arms manufacturers in other countries found the AK47 very easy to copy and few paid any royalties because of a dispute over patents.
But late in life - when he was 83 - Kalashnikov was reported to have acquired a 30% share of a German company in exchange for the use of his name for products including Kalashnikov umbrellas and mineral water.
But it is the AK47 which guarantees that his name will be remembered.
Mikhail Kalashnikov refused to accept any responsibility for the many people killed with the weapon.
"My aim was to create armaments to protect the borders of my motherland," he said.
"It is not my fault that the Kalashnikov was used in many troubled places. I think the policies of these countries are to blame, not the designers."


The government would consider co-investing with a private sector partner to help save the Port Talbot steel works, the business secretary has said.

Sajid Javid told the Commons that the government was working very hard to find a buyer for the South Wales plant, which is being sold by Tata Steel.
Among options being considered was "the possibility of co-investing with a buyer on commercial terms", he said.
Earlier, Tata announced the sale of its Scunthorpe plant to Greybull Capital.
The Long Products Europe business was sold to the investment firm for a token Â£1 or â‚¬1. The move will safeguard 4,400 UK jobs, but workers are being asked to accept a pay cut and less generous pension arrangements.
The future of the larger Port Talbot is still in doubt, however, although at least one potential buyer has expressed an interest. The government has resisted calls from unions and opposition politicians to nationalise the Port Talbot plant, Britain's biggest steelworks, to safeguard thousands of jobs.
Mr Javid said that the sale process for Port had only just started, but all options are still being explored.
This included "investment or funds from government," Mr Javid said. "But it has to be on commercial terms." He added: "I've been in contact with potential buyers, making clear that the government stands ready to help."
Mr Javid said: "Several weeks ago Tata told me in confidence that they were seriously considering an immediate closure of Port Talbot, not a sale, a closure.
"That would have meant thousands of hard-working men and women could already be out of a job. Thousands more would have been facing a very bleak future.  I was not prepared to let that happen."
Tony Burke, assistant general secretary of Unite, said the union would be holding Mr Javid to his commitment to co-invest if necessary. "The penny appears to have dropped that there should be an active government supporting steel and manufacturing as the best best hope of securing the future of the industry.
"We look forward to sitting down with secretary of state to hear more of his plans for co-investment," Mr Burke said.
MPs will hold an emergency debate on the steel industry on Tuesday, called for by Labour's shadow business secretary, Angela Eagle.
She complained that the government had refused to recall parliament from its Easter break to discuss the news that Tata was selling its UK steel operations.
Tata Steel is losing millions a week and today's deal with Greybull took six months to conclude. Group Executive Director Koushik Chatterjee told me that the process would be given "due time" without specifying what that might be.
He also said workers should take comfort from the fact that the company had already waited two weeks before starting the process to sell Port Talbot and other assets and that he saw potential buyers in "the tens".
There has already been tentative interest from the steel company Liberty House but the vision outlined by its chairman, Sanjeev Gupta, would require a radical and time consuming restructuring of operations at Port Talbot along with significant government support.
That appeared to be on hand as the Business Secretary Sajid Javid said the government would be prepared to co-invest with a buyer on commercial terms to secure a sale of Tata's remaining assets. This is a step further than the government has gone before, and, while giving extra hope, also shows just how difficult it may be to find a buyer.
Read Simon's blog in full
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Tata Steel UK: What are the options?
Is China to blame for steel woes?
Tata's sale of its European long products unit, announced earlier in the day, comes at a time when European steelmakers are struggling to survive amid a wave of cheap imports from China.
Greybull said it was arranging a Â£400m investment package as part of the deal.
The business will be rebranded as British Steel once the deal is completed in eight weeks, it said.
The new business would include the Scunthorpe works, two mills in Teesside, an engineering workshop in Workington, a design consultancy in York, a mill in Hayange, France, and sales and distribution facilities.
The token sale price reflects the difficulties involved in turning around the loss-making business, but Greybull partner Marc Meyohas said he was "delighted" with the agreement and believed the division could become a "strong business".
"At its core, it's a very, very good business," he said.
He also said Greybull had not ruled out buying other parts of Tata's UK steel business.
The Long Products Europe business makes steel for the rail and construction sectors.
The division was put up for sale in 2014. Greybull, whose interest was widely known, has been in talks with Tata Steel for the past nine months over a possible deal.
Greybull is backing a turnaround plan, which aims to return the loss-making business to profitability within one to two years, but will involve significant cost savings.
Staff are being asked to accept a 3% pay cut for one year and reductions to company pension contributions.  A staff ballot on the changes will be completed on 19 April.
But Greybull said its plan "to reset the cost base of the business" had already been agreed with both trade unions and key suppliers.
Greybull also said it did not expect further restructuring beyond the 1,200 job losses announced last October.
That involved the closure of one of the two coke ovens at Scunthorpe and the mothballing of three plate mills, reducing annual production capacity to 2.8 million tonnes.
Unions welcomed the deal.
GMB national officer Dave Hulse said negotiations had taken "a long period of time", but said the deal would "safeguard members' jobs".
Roy Rickhuss, general secretary of the Community union, said the announcement "demonstrates that with the right investors, UK steelmaking can have a positive future".
Mr Javid said the agreement was "a step in the right direction for the long-term future of British steel manufacturing in Scunthorpe".
The Indian steel giant said at the end of last month that it was exploring "strategic alternatives" for its UK business.
Thousands of workers in England and Wales risk losing their jobs if a buyer cannot be found.
Tata Steel directly employs 15,000 workers in the UK and supports thousands of others, across plants in Port Talbot, Rotherham, Corby and Shotton.
So far, the only company to have publicly expressed an interest in buying Tata's UK steel business is Liberty House, owned by Sanjeev Gupta.
Mr Javid, who was on a business trip to Australia when Tata first announced it was planning to sell its UK steelworks, is under pressure over his handling of the crisis.


Film studio Warner Brothers has asked Google to remove its own website from search results, saying it violates copyright laws.

It also asked the search giant to remove links to legitimate movie streaming websites run by Amazon and Sky, as well as the film database IMDB.
The request was submitted on behalf of Warner Brothers by Vobile, a company that files hundreds of thousands of takedown requests every month.
Warner Brothers has yet to comment.
The self-censorship was first spotted by news blog Torrent Freak, which said Vobile had made some "glaring errors".
In one request, Google was asked to remove links to the official websites for films such as Batman: The Dark Knight and The Matrix.
Licensed online movie portals such as Amazon and Sky Cinema were also reported for copyright infringement.
"Warner is inadvertently trying to make it harder for the public to find links to legitimate content, which runs counter to its intentions," said Ernesto van der Sar, from Torrent Freak.
Companies such as Vobile typically work on behalf of major film studios, reporting illegally uploaded copies of movies and television programmes.
Google's transparency report says Vobile has submitted more than 13 million links for removal.
It also reveals other potential mistakes - such as Entura International reporting on behalf of the film studio Lionsgate that a copy of the movie London Has Fallen had been found on the Microsoft download store.
"Unfortunately these kind of errors are very common," said Mr Van der Sar.
"Piracy monitoring firms often use automated systems to find and report copyright infringing websites.
"I'm fairly certain that this happened here as well, considering the obvious mistakes that were made.
"A good approach would be to white-list non-infringing sources such as warnerbros.com and amazon.com - but apparently that didn't happen."
After reviewing the Warner Brothers report, Google decided not to remove links to Amazon, IMDB and Sky Cinema from its results.


The search for a woman who has gone missing with her two sons has been widened out to Europe, police said.

Samantha Baldwin, 42, from Newark, was last seen in Nottingham city centre on Monday and is believed to be with Louis Madge, 9, and Dylan Madge, 6.
Police said the case was being treated as abduction and confirmed Ms Baldwin did not have legal custody of the boys.
There have been several sightings and police are "open minded" over whether they had left the UK.
A 62-year-old woman and another woman, 36, both arrested on suspicion of assisting an offender have been bailed.
Updates on this story and more from Nottinghamshire
Supt Rich Fretwell said: "We've had eight sightings across the country, six of those we've discounted, two are still forming part of the live investigation.
"We have an all ports warning in place, that stretches over to Europe, however, there's no indication at the moment that they have left the country, but we keep an open mind.
"We've had numerous sightings... and we will go wherever the inquiries take us.
"The reality is we still do not know where Samantha and the two boys are."
Ms Baldwin has been urged to get in touch to confirm she and the boys are safe.
Detectives have been carrying out searches of properties, studied CCTV footage and used number plate recognition technology.
Ms Baldwin is described as being 5ft 7ins (1.7m) tall, of a slim build with shoulder length, highlighted blonde hair and green/blue eyes.
She has family connections in Lincolnshire and Manchester.
Louis is described as having fair hair, a fair complexion and blue eyes and Dylan has straight dark brown hair, a tanned complexion and brown eyes.
The two boys also use the surname of Taylor, police said.


A four-year-old lion has been shot dead after it escaped from a zoo in Jos, central Nigeria.

The lion is believed to have escaped from its cage in Jos Wildlife Park at feeding time on Wednesday morning.
There was tension in Jos as police and soldiers spent the day trying to track the animal down.
The police say the lion was hostile during attempts to get it back to the cage and it was killed before it could harm anyone.
The BBC's Ishaq Khalid in central Nigeria says there has been widespread condemnation of the killing in the region.
Critics argue the animal should have been tranquillised instead.


Turkey has marched dozens of coup suspects past a hostile crowd at the start of their trial near Ankara.

Most of the 221 suspects are high-ranking military officers, accused of trying to oust President Recep Tayyip Erdogan last July.
Ex-air force commander Akin Ozturk was the first in a long line of defendants. There were calls for death sentences, though Turkish law does not allow that.
In the crackdown, police have arrested two teachers who are on hunger strike.
Nuriye Gulmen and Semih Ozakca reported their own arrest during the night in tweets. They are among more than 100,000 public servants sacked after the botched July 2016 military coup.
"Political branch police are trying to enter the house, they are breaking the door right now," Ms Gulmen tweeted.
The pair have been on hunger strike for 75 days. Their lawyer said that, despite the police raid on Sunday, they had both vowed to "never give up".
"We want our jobs back! We have not surrendered and will not!" Ms Gulmen tweeted.
President Erdogan's purge of state institutions has meant mass dismissals in the judiciary, police, universities and schools.
The mass trial at the Sincan prison complex near Ankara is the most high-profile prosecution of alleged plotters so far.
The defendants were booed by the crowd outside the purpose-built court, designed for mass trials.
The number one suspect - the Muslim cleric Fethullah Gulen - remains in the United States and denies involvement.
The charges include murdering 250 civilians during the 15 July coup attempt, after which Mr Erdogan imposed a state of emergency.
There was tight security, with snipers deployed on the prison roof on Monday.
The mother of a victim of the coup attempt briefly interrupted the proceedings as the first trial started.
"Kill the murderers of my son! Give me my son back!" Saliha Arikan cried. She was soon escorted out of the courtroom.
TV pictures showed dozens of people waving Turkish flags in front of the courthouse as the defendants arrived - some brandishing nooses as a reminder of the call to bring back capital punishment.
One placard read: "For the martyrs and veterans of July 15, we want the death penalty."
Many of President Erdogan's supporters see the death penalty as an appropriate punishment for those involved in the coup plot and with Fethullah Gulen, whom Ankara accuses of masterminding it.
Turkey abolished the death penalty as part of its drive to join the European Union.
But President Erdogan has repeatedly hinted that it could be reimposed to deal with the coup plotters.
He said he would sign a decree to reintroduce it as soon as parliament votes in favour.
Mehmet Yaman, one of the angry onlookers, told Reuters news agency: "I am here to settle the score with terrorists, I am here to show that I stand by my people, my flag and my religion.
"I am here to show the terrorists that we will stand firm. I want them sentenced to death in a fair trial, I want the traitors of this country to be punished."
In a new report, Amnesty International condemns Turkey's post-coup purge of state institutions, saying many people have been sacked arbitrarily and now face great hardship.
Mr Erdogan founded the Islamist-rooted AK Party in 2001 and on Sunday he was elected AKP leader, further entrenching his dominance of Turkish politics. There was no rival candidate at the AKP congress.
Last month Turks narrowly approved constitutional changes giving the president far-reaching powers, including the right to lead a political party.


Leeds Contemporary Singers have won the final of Pitch Battle.

The nine-piece from Leeds saw off some strong competition from the other groups.
LCS have been battling it out over six weeks and showed they had what it takes to go the distance.
London boys, All The Kings Men came second in the competition.
It's been a close competition over the last five weeks seeing 30 different singing groups battling it out to win.
LCS wont go back to Leeds with just a trophy, they've also won Â£50,000 to put towards their passion for singing.


A city councillor who made a Nazi salute during a meeting has been suspended.

Jonny Morris, a Labour councillor in Plymouth, made the gesture in protest after Conservative members voted to end a debate on the rise of council tax.
Mr Morris said he "apologised unreservedly" but was "very angry at the closing down of debate".
MP for Plymouth, Johnny Mercer, called on Mr Morris to resign, calling the Labour councillors a "vile group".
Devon and Cornwall Police confirmed that they have been made aware of the incident, which is being treated as a public order offence.
Labour group leader Tudor Evans said: "I think we've moved as quickly as we can to make it very clear that we're not happy about it".
"The Labour Party takes this sort of thing very seriously, and so we took steps last night to suspend him - pending an investigation - because we don't condone this sort of thing."
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The gesture was branded "an utter disgrace" by other councillors at the meeting.
Conservative MP Johnny Mercer described the pending investigation as "waffling", and said it's an "open and shut case".
"Doing a Nazi salute anywhere is clearly completely inappropriate, I don't know what possesses someone to do that sort of thing - it's incredibly offensive," said Mr Mercer.
"That Plymouth is being talked about today because a councillor has done this in a council debate is embarrassing - for me and for Plymouth."
The budget meeting saw councillors narrowly vote in favour of increasing council tax bills by 4.49 per cent.
Mr Evans said the Nazi salute had caused a distraction from the issues.
"I'm now talking about this when I should be talking about the fact that the Tories have just just levied their third highest council tax rise in Plymouth's history," he said.
Local authorities warned last week that services face cuts despite council tax increases of up to 4.99 per cent to help pay for elderly social care.


People living near a proposed site for a non-league football club's new ground are being asked for their views.

Cambridge City Football Club wants to build a 3,000-capacity stadium, with 300 parking spaces, two floodlit pitches and a gym open to the public.
The proposed site is on green belt land just north of Sawston, a village to the south of Cambridge.
The club wants to gather residents' opinions on the proposal before it puts in a formal planning application.
Its plans are being included in South Cambridgeshire District Council's local plan, which will set planning policies for the area.
Residents have raised concerns about increased traffic and parking problems at the proposed new stadium site, which is at a former tip at Dales Manor Business Park.
The Southern League Premier Division club has played at its current home, Milton Road, since 1922.
It sold the stadium to a property developer in 2006 and is in line to receive 50% of the profits from any future development of the site.
In February, Cambridge City Council approved plans for 138 homes to be built at the stadium, meaning the team will leave the ground at the end of this season.
The club is looking for a temporary home to play at until a permanent stadium is built.
Club president Len Satchell said: "We are having to move from our historic ground in Cambridge and find a new home for the club.
"It has been good to have the help of the council.
"We hope the community will join in the debate and make their views known."
The local plan consultation for Sawston closes on 6 May.


Shoppers held off from stocking up in September, according to new retail data, which revealed weak sales of food, footwear and clothing.

The amount of goods people bought last month was flat compared to August.
However, prices rose by 0.1% between August and September, according to the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
Analysts blamed the warmer weather in September for flat sales and cautioned falling sterling and rising inflation may impact future trade.
"Britain's erratic weather has really taken its toll on retailers this year, and a warm September was the last thing that the high street needed," said Keith Richardson, managing director of the retail sector at Lloyds Bank Commercial Banking.
"Deflationary pressures in food and fashion also contributed to a flat spend during the month as a whole."
Over the three months to September, growth was stronger, with retail sales volumes up 1.8% compared with last year.
It was an improvement from a 1.1% increase in the three months to June and the fastest rate since the final quarter of 2014.
"The underlying trend is one of strength, suggesting consumer confidence has remained steady since June's referendum," said Kate Davies, a statistician at the ONS.
However, sterling edged lower against the dollar to $1.2270 following the release of the data.
Recent figures show that inflation rose to 1% in September and while pay growth is still heading upwards, at 2.3% for the three months to August, it has slowed compared to previous months.
Richard Lim, chief executive of Retail Economics, said: "Darker clouds are forming on the horizon. As inflation accelerates more rapidly next year and the impact of a fragile jobs market transpires to weaker wage growth, disposable incomes will come under pressure.
"On the whole, consumers react to their personal experience of the economy in terms of their job security, rising prices in the shops and what happens to their wages. As of yet, not much has happened to affect spending power and so, judging by this latest data, their appetite to spend could be faltering."


A former Royal Marine jailed for life for murdering an insurgent in Afghanistan has lost an appeal against his conviction.

Sgt Alexander Blackman, of Taunton, was found guilty of murder at a court martial in November and told he would spend at least 10 years in jail.
The Court Martial Appeal Court in London decided to reduce the minimum term he must serve to eight years.
Blackman must serve the minimum term before he can be considered for parole.
Reducing the sentence, judges Lord Chief Justice Lord Thomas, Sir Brian Leveson and Lady Justice Hallett said the court martial had not taken the former marine's combat stress sufficiently into account.
A Ministry of Defence spokesman said of the ruling: "We respect the authority and decision of the appeal court, and it would be inappropriate for us to comment on the sentence."
Neither Blackman nor his family were in court as the judgement was handed down.
Lord Thomas said the court martial ought to have accorded greater weight as a mitigating factor to the combat stress from which Blackman was suffering.
He said the stress had arisen from the nature of the insurgency in Afghanistan, the way his tour of duty was arranged and other matters personally affecting him.
The judge also said Blackman was unlikely to commit a similar offence again.
The murder on 15 September 2011 took place after a patrol base in Helmand province came under fire from two insurgents.
One of the attackers was seriously injured by gunfire from an Apache helicopter sent to provide air support, and the marines found him in a field.
Footage from another marine's helmet-mounted camera showed Blackman shooting the Afghan prisoner in the chest at close range with a 9mm pistol.
Blackman told him: "There you are. Shuffle off this mortal coil, you c***. It's nothing you wouldn't do to us."
He then told his comrades: "Obviously this doesn't go anywhere, fellas. I just broke the Geneva Convention."
The court martial board in Bulford, Wiltshire, found Blackman guilty of murdering the insurgent. Two other marines were acquitted.
It was the first time a member of the British armed forces had faced a murder charge in relation to the conflict in Afghanistan, which began in 2001.
Blackman was also "dismissed with disgrace" from the Royal Marines. He had served with distinction for 15 years, including tours of Iraq, Afghanistan and Northern Ireland.
Blackman, 39, had denied murder, claiming he believed the victim was already dead and that he was taking his anger out on the corpse.
During the appeal, Blackman's lawyer, Anthony Berry QC, described the murder conviction as "inherently unsafe" because there was a "possibility that he was convicted by a simple majority of a seven-man board".
He said there remained "doubt as to whether the prosecution in fact satisfied the criminal standard of proof".


Plans have been submitted to build flats at a former police station site.

Poole Housing Partnership (PHP), wants to build 62 flats at the site at Canford Heath Road, Poole.
The affordable housing development would see three four storey blocks made up of 30 one and 32 two bedroom flats.
PHP said six flats would be set aside to house young people with severe mental and physical impairment. It is a joint project between Borough of Poole and PHP.


A man has admitted stabbing a doorman in the neck at a bar in Liverpool's Concert Square.

Kyle Crowe, 21, pleaded guilty at Liverpool Crown Court to wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm and possessing an offensive weapon.
Merseyside Police were called to Modo Bar on Concert Street at about 22:00 BST on Saturday 22 August.
The doorman was taken to Royal Liverpool University Hospital and treated for a serious injury.
Officers believed a group had approached the bar earlier in the evening but were refused entry.
Crowe has been remanded in custody and is due to be sentenced on 26 November.


Two men have been arrested in County Louth by police investigating dissident republican activity.

A man in 40s was detained and a rifle found after a car was stopped and searched on the Point Road, Dundalk on Tuesday.
A man in his late 50s was later arrested during a follow-up search at a house also in Dundalk.
GardaÃ described the original search of the car as a planned operation. Both men remain in custody.


Children would rather be playing outdoors than watching television, but parents' concerns keep them indoors, a survey suggests.

The poll of nearly 3,000 parents and children by Eureka Children's Museum in West Yorkshire found 81% of children prefer playing outside to watching TV.
But half of the parents and carers surveyed said they did not let their child leave their home or garden.
Just 37% said they let their youngster to go to the end of the street.
In total, 2,823 parents and children, aged 5-11, took part in the poll, with an approximate split of 52% children (1,456 respondents) and 48% parents (1,367 respondents).
The findings show young people are unlikely to stray very far from home, because concerns about road traffic and strangers mean most parents do not let them outside without supervision.
While 95% of adults agreed it was good for children to take risks when playing, about one in four said they would not let their child take these risks without a safe environment to play in.
Many parents believed their children did not have the same freedoms as they did as youngsters.
They put this down to heavier traffic making playing in the streets more dangerous, as well as a lack of community spirit and fear of strangers.
"Parents and carers feel that it's beneficial for children to take risks when playing, but remain risk-averse in providing them with the freedom and scope to embark on play that helps them make independent judgments around risk and danger," the report says.
"As a consequence, street play is becoming increasingly rare, with parents citing traffic and stranger danger as reasons for keeping tabs on their children - either indoors or in the back garden."
The survey found 77% (1,042) of parents thought play was an important all-year round activity for their children.
Children themselves said they wanted to explore through unstructured, free-spirited play, with  67%  preferring free play.
The survey also found a clear difference between where today's children play and where their parents went.
The top three places for today's young were the park, the garden and home, while their parents' favourite places were fields, woods and the street.
One parent told the pollsters: "When I was little we were able to play in the street without parents being afraid that something would happen to us."
Another said: "My kids don't have the same freedom as I had at the same age, I would not let them play out of the garden without supervision."
The study concludes: "Parents need to be provided with the tools and confidence to allow their children more freedom to play outside, or the next generation of children will become even more housebound than the current one.
"Parents and carers must be empowered to work with local councils on setting up street play initiatives aimed at closing off streets and instilling a sense of shared trust and collective care within a street community."


Chris Paterson believes "a calm head under pressure" could be the key to success in Edinburgh and Glasgow Warriors' annual double-header.

The Pro12 sides meet on Sunday at Murrayfield and then again at Scotstoun on 2 January.
As well as league points, the teams will be battling to win the 1872 Cup over two legs.
"Dealing with pressure is really, really important," said former Edinburgh and Scotland back Paterson.
"Your opportunities could be very, very few and far between. Your opportunity could be in the opening five minutes of the opening game and you've got to take it.
"You may not get another opportunity because everybody will be so tense over the two games. That's the key thing - keeping a calm head under pressure.
"You need some of your players, obviously, to get wound up and be more aggressive than others but you need the decision makers to be really clear under pressure and strike when you have opportunity to because there won't be a huge amount of opportunities."
Paterson, now an MBE, does some coaching with the Warriors and had two spells at Edinburgh as he became Scotland's most-capped and highest scoring player.
"It's your typical derby in many ways," he said of meetings of Scotland's two professional sides. "It's fiercely competitive on the field and off the field. There's a great tradition that the supporters compete as well.
"On the field, it's real - it's hard rugby, it's meaningful rugby, it's league points at stake but there's an 1872 trophy at stake as well.
"There's a real edge to it. What we have now is two teams that are really strong, really competitive. We've got reigning [Pro12] champions in Glasgow and you've got an Edinburgh team that are vastly improving - final of the European [Challenge Cup] last year.
"All that goes out the window when you come head-to-head. It comes down to you against your opposite number in a derby match and it's hard.
"They will be close. You've got two teams playing towards the top of their games, over two legs, it's an aggregate score in the 1872 Cup. The team that wins the first leg has a huge advantage."


New Salford Red Devils signing Daniel Vidot nearly moved to WWE wrestling before joining the Super League side.

The 25-year-old Samoa international joined Salford on a two-year deal this week after leaving Brisbane Broncos.
Vidot has previously spoken about considering a career in wrestling.
"We'd actually spoke about him and then three weeks later we were told that he was going to be signing for the WWE," Salford head coach Ian Watson told BBC Radio Manchester.
Salford's director of rugby, Tim Sheens, then looked into it further to see if Vidot was definitely going to be joining the world's biggest wrestling company.
"Tim said he was going to do a little bit more digging and find out how true everything was with that," Watson added.
"Tim's gone back there and said he's hoping to be looking at a contract so that's when we moved forward with our plans."
With Watson and Sheens planning for next season there could be more arrivals at the AJ Bell Stadium ahead of the new season.
"There's a couple at the moment that we're speaking to and in negotiations with but we'll have to see whether they come off," added Watson.
"At the moment we're building a good, solid squad here with people who are going to be competitive and work hard for each other."


Fourteen further investigations have been launched into alleged police corruption relating to historical child sex abuse claims, the police watchdog has said.

The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) is now overseeing 43 such inquiries, up from 29 announced last year.
All concern the Metropolitan Police.
They relate to allegations of wrongdoing in cases involving prominent individuals or police officers.
The IPCC said the claims being looked at related to "child sex offences dating from the 1970s to the 2000s".
It is overseeing probes by the Met's Professional Standards Department.
A IPCC spokesman said: "They all concern allegations of suppressing evidence, hindering or halting investigations, or covering up alleged offences because of the involvement of prominent individuals or police officers."
Many of the investigations stem from allegations made by retired Met Police officers.
The IPCC said it was also managing one investigation into Essex Police, while there is another, independent investigation being carried out into Sussex Police - making a total of 45.
One of the 43 Met inquiries relates to the actions of police investigating the case of Vishal Mehrotra, an eight-year-old boy who went missing on the day of the Royal Wedding in 1981.
His remains were found six months later in Sussex.


Mansfield Town manager Adam Murray says the injury to left-back Mal Benning is not as bad as first feared.

It was thought that Benning, 21, could miss the rest of the season with cruciate ligament damage, but he could now be available in January.
Murray told the club website: "We expected the worst when we got the scan results and the original diagnosis.
"We thought it was going to be the whole season, if we're being honest. It's not as bad as we expected."
Former Walsall full-back Benning suffered the injury earlier this month against Bristol Rovers and he was expected to be out for several months.
However, the club have confirmed that the defender does not need an operation.
Murray continued: "We think we'll have him back January-time. He's got to be in a brace for 12 weeks, obviously Mal's young and he's very, very fit.
"It's great news for the club, great news for Mal and it's great news for me."


Online marketplace Amazon has placed a limit on the number of reviews shoppers can leave on the site.

In a bid to put a stop to false feedback, people can now write only five reviews a week of items not bought via the online store.
The change applies to most products and is part of efforts to clamp down on people selling positive comments.
The change is Amazon's latest step in its battle to ensure users trust its listings.
Earlier this year, Amazon began suing sellers for buying fake reviews and then imposed tougher restrictions on companies that offered free products in return for customers' ratings.
Users can still review as many items as they like if the goods are purchased via the website.
"The change makes a lot of sense. There has been a massive clampdown on fake, bogus and heavily influenced reviews recently," said Patrick O'Brien, retail analyst at Verdict Retail.
In October, Amazon announced the end of ''incentivised reviews".
While direct compensation for reviews had never been allowed, there was an exception - reviewers could until last month post a review in exchange for a "free or discounted product as long as they disclosed that fact", according to Amazon's website.
Now, that has changed. Such reviews can appear on the site only via Amazon's own program, Vine.
Amazon published its updated rules in its Customer Service section.
"You can submit five non-Amazon verified purchase reviews each week, starting on Sunday," it says.
Amazon also reserves the right to restrict reviews of certain products to users who have bought it via the site if "unusually high numbers" of reviews are submitted in a short period of time.
"Amazon's review system is very impressive in terms of the volume of reviews there, it's far superior to those of competitors," said Mr O'Brien.
"The new rules will make it very difficult for people who are trying to make money by selling fake reviews. It does show Amazon is taking this matter seriously."
The new rules will not apply to books.


The government has announced that our most congested road, the A14, will be tolled.

For the last eight months the government has been consulting on how best to ease congestion: its solution is a new piece of road, which drivers will pay to use.
The trunk road links the country's largest container port in Felixstowe, with the M1 and M6 motorways, from where goods are whisked to the rest of the country.
That's after spending many an hour in gridlock on the 130 mile length of the A14.
The stretch through Cambridgeshire between Cambridge and Huntingdon is particularly busy and that's where the changes will happen.
South Cambridgeshire MP, Andrew Lansley, welcomed the news: "We all know we need the A14 to be rebuilt.
In tough times, if it's going to happen it can't just be paid for by the government - people who are using the road will have to dig into their pockets.
"The A14 has stopped Cambridge from growing and it's an impediment day by day to people going about their business," he added.
The plan to upgrade this vital artery through the region will cost up to Â£1.5 billion.
More then 100,000 vehicles a day travel through Cambridgeshire, a quarter of them heavy good vehicles.
Delays frustrate motorists and cost businesses a fortune.
John Bridge from Cambridgeshire Chamber of Commerce gave the plan a cautious thumbs up.
He said: "The business community is somewhat concerned about tolling but I think we believe it's a necessary evil if it is the only way we can get the road upgraded."
While the local MP for Huntingdon, Jonathan Djanogly (Con) had warmer words: "The east of England needs this road to develop the area and without it, particularly as the economy picks up, it's going to be an increasing problem, so it's important we get on with it."
For many years there's been talk about improving this road but every time, drivers hopes have been dashed.
The last scheme, backed by Labour, was dropped by the coalition because it was too expensive.
A toll road is obviously attractive to the government as it doesn't have to pay for the upgrade.
Private finance will stump up the money and and motorists will pay.
"HGV's can take the toll road and everyone else can use the local access roads," says Andrew Lansley.
"The government hasn't got a limitless supply of money. We need to think of innovative and exciting solutions, which this is."
The eastern region suffers from poor transport links, particularly east to west. No doubt this will go some way to help.
The government says it wants construction to start in six years time.
Isn't that after the next general election?


Two women have been freed and a man arrested following an armed siege in Birmingham.

West Midlands Police said an unarmed man, 31, locked himself in the premises of mental health charity Pathways in Digbeth with two staff members at 15:00 BST.
The first woman was freed shortly after 19:30 BST, and the second just after 20:00 BST by police.
It is not yet known why he took the hostages. No-one was injured.
Police said the man is not connected to the charity and he remains in custody.
The road has been closed for investigations.
Two ambulances, a paramedic car and five police cars were at the scene.
Witnesses said a wedding party from The Spotted Dog pub were evacuated.


Two Maasai herdsmen have been charged after allegedly poisoning a famous pride of lions in Narok, south-west Kenya, a wildlife official said.

Simindei Naururi and Kulangash Toposat reportedly doused a cow carcass with poison at the Maasai Mara Game reserve.
Two lions from the pride were killed and one is missing. Eight are being treated after falling ill.
The lions are thought to have killed three of the herdsmen's cows when they entered the reserve.
The Kenyan Wildlife Service warned that other animals might have been affected.
The lions, from the famous Marsh pride, were featured on BBC wildlife programme Big Cat Diary.
The poisoning was confirmed on the pride's Facebook page on 7 December.
One of the two lions killed was Bibi, a 17-year-old female lion. A BBC wildlife crew member at the scene said she was found "foaming at the mouth, fitting and panting".
Another lioness, Sienna, is missing, according to the David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust. Her two-year-old cub is reportedly being treated by vets.
The BBC's Alastair Leithead in Nairobi says there is conflict between the big cats and Maasai herdsmen. Local cattle herders have poisoned lions in the past to stop them eating their cattle.