A former prison officer at a riot-hit jail says he fears for the young, inexperienced staff still working there.

Keith Conway said he took early retirement from Wiltshire's HMP Erlestoke in 2016 because he and his colleagues feared for their safety.
The government "needs to start getting discipline back into prisons", he said.
The Prison Service says it is taking "decisive action" to tackle the jail's "long-standing challenges".
A lack of experienced staff, which "remained a concern", contributed to violence at the Category C prison near Devizes in 2016, a report following the disturbance found.
It also said drug use was a "blight" leading to "frequent life-threatening emergencies".
Just days later after it was published, fresh violence broke out with five prison officers seriously injured.
Mr Conway, who had 28 years' experience as a prison officer, said there was "no respect" within the prison, with inmates knowing there were too few staff to cope.
"I was frightened, you didn't know what you were walking into. Staff were getting injured and their mental health was going," he said.
"I fear for those people who are still there and I take my hat off to them for what they are doing."
He added it was too much to expect new officers aged 20 or 21 years old to "tell a man of 40 doing a life sentence what to do".
Conservative MP Robert Neill, the chair of the House of Commons Justice Committee, said the Prison Service had been "cut too far".
While crediting the government for recruiting more staff, he admitted "we are shedding experienced officers at the same time".
Mark Fairhurst from the Prison Officers Association added: "We're not prepared to put up with this violence any more. Things have got to change."
A spokeswoman for the Prison Service said staff recruitment and drug testing had increased to improve conditions.
"We know there are a number of long-standing challenges, which is why we've taken decisive action," she said.


An Australian father has poked fun at the country's political expenses scandal, asking MPs to fund his family's trip to Uluru.

Stephen Callaghan has created a crowdfunding page calling on MPs to pledge money for the trip.
He said it would cost far less than a similar trip taken by Labor MP Tony Burke's family at taxpayers' expense.
Mr Callaghan is one of many Australians who have taken to social media to mock MPs' travel expenses.
Several senior politicians have been criticised for using public funds for 'luxury' travel such as helicopter rides or family holidays.
Former lower house speaker Bronwyn Bishop last week resigned because of public anger about some of her expenses.
Under the banner of parliamentary entitlements,  Mr Burke spent A$12,000 ($8855, Â£5,600) on a trip to the tourist destination in the Northern Territory where he did work related to his then Environment portfolio.
He also claimed four "family traveller" business class airfares for the same trip.
Mr Callaghan, who lives on the New South Wales Central Coast looking after his three children, told the BBC he had to sell a car to fund his family's holiday.
He said he had no idea parliamentarians were able to claim family travel, sometimes business class, as part of their parliamentary allowances.
"My wife works away from home 40 weeks a year and we don't get that entitlement," he said.
"If Australia has a soul it's Uluru. I want my kids to see it in that age of wonderment."
His page has so far attracted A$510 but no MPs have donated money.
Rules governing Australia's parliamentary expenses are vague but the public has not reacted well to a series of media stories about how some MPs spend the money.
Prime Minister Tony Abbott, who himself once repaid A$1000 he had claimed to attend a colleague's wedding, has committed to a "root and branch" review of entitlements.


A breast cancer charity poster in a railway station toilet has attracted dozens of graffiti messages of support.

The poster in a women's toilet in Leeds railway station features cancer survivor Michelle Qualtrough.
Mrs Qualtrough, from Surrey, said: "If we can all support each other it's a wonderful thing."
Network Rail said the poster, which was put up five years ago, will stay where it is after so many "heart-warming" messages were added.
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Anonymous messages scribbled on the poster include:
"Stay strong ladies and remember to talk to your loved ones you will get through it x"
"I love this! For women everywhere"
"I lost my mum and sis - do check!!"
"Big love! x"
Deborah Ward of Network Rail said: "We simply couldn't replace such powerful and heart-warming messages on a subject which affects so many women so we have kept the poster in place and have no plans to change it any time soon."
Photographs of the the poster, which advises women to check themselves for signs of cancer, have been shared on Twitter and Instagram.
Mrs Qualtrough said she was "shocked and surprised" the poster was still up as she believed the campaign had only been planned to last 12 months.
She said: "I feel very privileged people have taken time to do that, it is a good way of passing the message on."
Mrs Qualtrough was diagnosed with breast cancer at the age of 49 and had a total mastectomy in 2004.
Since learning of her cancer she has run two London marathons and 14 half marathons for Cancer Research UK although she had "never run a mile before I was ill".
Mrs Qualtrough, who has family in Leeds, said being a breast cancer survivor had made her more positive.
She said: "You've had cancer and you got over it, what's so scary now?"


League One side Peterborough have signed goalkeeper Jonathan Bond on a six-month loan from Reading.

The 24-year-old ex-England Under-21 man joined the Royals from Watford in 2015 and has made 14 first-team appearances.
But he failed to play for the Berkshire club last season, with his only senior football coming in an eight-game loan spell at Gillingham.
Posh had been in talks with Tottenham over keeper Luke McGee, who spent last season on loan at the ABAX Stadium.
"Jonathan has good experience, he has played in the Championship with Watford and was part of the side that got promoted with them," said Posh manager Grant McCann.
"He is being coached well by David Beasant at Reading and we are pleased that they have allowed him to come here for six months.
"If all works well then hopefully we can extend it in January."
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A Ceredigion cleaner has been found guilty of blackmailing an 80-year-old customer out of £20,000 after a retrial.

Linda Thomas from Cardigan gave the man a "cuddle and a kiss" but threatened to tell police he sexually assaulted her if he did not give her money.
Swansea Crown Court heard the man's bank became suspicious of the withdrawals and alerted the police.
Thomas, 62, will be sentenced next month.
She was discharged from her original trial in March this year after the jury failed to return a majority verdict.
Prosecuting, Dyfed Thomas said when Thomas arrived at the man's house "she may have given him a peck on the cheek" and "when she left he gave her a hug and a kiss".
She accused him of "touching her breasts" and made demands for money.
The court heard the man took £10,000 out of his bank in October 2015, before returning for another £10,000.
He said the bank "begged him not to pay her".
After her arrest, Thomas accused him of being a "dirty old man" who made up the allegations as he was "madly in love" with her.


While your parents might remember it from years ago, Robot Wars has returned to our TV screens bigger and better than ever.

4 August 2016 Last updated at 09:18 BST
The show sees competitors battle their self-built robots in a bid to be crowned Robot Wars champion.
One of the stars of this week's show is nine-year-old April, who designed her robot Glitterbomb.
She told Ayshah that her pink robot, built by her dad, is ready to make the other teams cry.


European Council President Donald Tusk has quoted lyrics from John Lennon's Imagine to suggest the door remains open to the UK staying in the EU.

Ahead of a Brussels summit he said of that prospect: "You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
Theresa May, who has said the UK will honour the referendum vote to leave, was due to outline her plans for the issue of expats' rights to EU leaders.
Speaking at the summit she hailed the "constructive" start to Brexit talks.
The gathering of 28 EU member states' leaders comes the day after measures to enable Brexit dominated the Queen's Speech. Mrs May's Conservatives are still trying to secure the Commons support needed to pass their programme.
Mrs May told reporters as she arrived: "I'm going to be setting out some of the UK's plans particularly on how we propose to protect the rights of EU citizens and UK citizens as we leave.
"That's been an important issue. We've wanted it to be one of the early issues to be considered in the negotiations. That is now the case. That work is starting."
She also said she would be raising other important issues, including how European leaders could work together to stop the spread of extremism online and ensure there was no "safe space" online for terrorists.
Brexit negotiations began on Monday.
Speaking before the summit, Mr Tusk said: "It is a most difficult process, for which the EU is well prepared. You can hear different predictions coming from different people about the possible outcome of these negotiations - hard Brexit, soft Brexit or no deal.
"Some of my British friends have even asked me whether Brexit could be reversed and whether I could imagine an outcome where the UK stays part of the EU.
"I told them that, in fact, the European Union was built on dreams that seemed impossible to achieve. So, who knows. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one."
His comments were raised at a press conference in Brussels later with President of the European Commission, Jean Claude Juncker, who said: "In Europe, I never have illusions because I don't want to lose them."
But Mr Tusk said: "I still have dreams. Politics without dreams - it would be a nightmare."
"If you had my experience from my part of Europe you would know that miracles do happen and some of my political dreams have come true... but at the same time I am a realist, this is why first of all we should start our negotiations as effectively as possible and the final decision... this is a decision for Britain and UK citizens."
Earlier Chancellor Philip Hammond told BBC Radio 4's Today he wanted an early agreement on the principle of a "transitional" period to reassure business there would not be a "cliff edge" when the UK leaves the EU at the end of March 2019.
He also denied that a series of controversial Conservative manifesto commitments had been dumped in the wake of the disappointing election result.
He told Today that the manifesto was for a five-year period, but the Queen's Speech programme had been for the first two years, which are dominated by the process of Brexit.
Both the UK and the rest of the EU say they want to come to an arrangement to secure the status of about 3.2 million EU nationals living in the UK, and 900,000 Britons overseas, but nothing has been decided so far.
UK opposition parties have urged the government to make a unilateral guarantee to the EU migrants - but ministers have insisted a reciprocal deal is needed to ensure British expats are protected.
Mrs May will not be present when the leaders of the remaining 27 EU states hold a brief discussion about Brexit after her presentation. They are expected to consider the relocation of the two EU agencies governing medicine and banking which are currently based in London.
Of the 27 bills in the Queen's Speech, eight related to Brexit and its impact on immigration, trade and sectors such as fisheries and farming.
At the centre was the so-called Repeal Bill, which will copy over all EU laws into UK law, with Parliament then deciding which bits to retain.
With MPs voting on the speech next week, the Conservatives are hoping an  arrangement with Northern Ireland's Democratic Unionist Party will be in place to support their minority government.
But despite both sides saying they were confident of a deal being agreed, sources suggested to the BBC the DUP were "getting to the limits" of what they were requesting in return for supporting the Tories - with the chances of a plausible long-term deal, rather than a short-term bargain to get the Queen's Speech through, diminishing.
As well as clearing the Commons, Brexit legislation will also have to navigate the House of Lords, where the Tories also do not have a majority.
Another potential obstacle could emerge if the approval of the Scottish Parliament is needed for the Repeal Bill.
Speaking in the Commons after the Queen's Speech, Mrs May said there was a "possibility" the bill, which is needed to stop EU law applying in the UK, could require Holyrood's consent.
At the two-day summit, where the agenda is formally dominated by immigration, security and the economy, Mrs May will also brief her counterparts on the UK's commitment to a new Â£75m plan designed to stem the flow of illegal migrants from Africa to Europe.


A long-running industrial dispute at the National Museum of Scotland has been resolved.

National Museums Scotland (NMS) and the Public and Commercial Service union (PCS) said they had reached an agreement over weekend pay.
They began talks last month after PCS suspended a series of planned strikes at the National Museum in Edinburgh.
The dispute centred over the removal of a weekend allowance from new members of staff.
PCS claimed the move had created a "two-tier workforce".
The dispute began three years ago, leading to a number of days of strike action by museum staff.
In a statement, NMS said: "Funding support from the Scottish government and efficiency savings have enabled National Museums Scotland and the PCS trade union to reach an agreement to buy out weekend working allowances and improve the pay of the lowest paid members of staff.
"The buy-out is a single one-off payment to end the allowances. This offer has been combined with a previously-made offer (December 2015) which improves the pay of the lowest paid members of staff.
"PCS membership considered the revised offer last week and agreed the proposals.
"This brings the dispute to an end and means the planned strike action for weekends during April will no longer take place."
The deal means staff will receive wage rises of between £221 and £1,634, with the lowest paid "gaining the most", according to the union.
"Most" PCS members will also receive compensation payments of between £600 and £15,000, with an average of more than £12,000 for those currently receiving the allowance.
The union said it had suspended the first three weeks of a planned six-week long period of "sustained weekend industrial action".
PCS national officer Lynn Henderson said "We are pleased to announce that our members have voted overwhelmingly to accept the offer from management.
"For PCS, the dispute was always about two things - low pay and ending the two-tier workforce. This deal meets both our objectives.
"This settlement is hugely significant for our members in National Museums Scotland who have shown that through united and determined action we can win significant results. even in the face of austerity."


Former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak is due to learn if he has been found guilty of conspiracy in the killing of protesters during last year's uprising.

A Cairo court has begun hearing if Mr Mubarak, as well as his former Interior Minister Habib al-Adly and four aides, ordered police to shoot demonstrators.
All six deny the charges. They could face the death penalty if convicted.
Mr Mubarak also faces separate charges of abusing his powers to amass wealth, with his sons Alaa and Gamal.
An associate, the tycoon Hussein Salem, is being tried in absentia.
Two other senior interior ministry security officials are accused of failing to anticipate protests and protect public and private property.
By Yolande KnellBBC News, Cairo
There are thousands of police and soldiers outside the Cairo Academy Courtroom and a couple of hundred protesters.
"This is a charade. Mubarak is a killer," they shout. Many here are relatives of the 850 people who died in last year's popular revolt.
Nabila Ramadan is carrying a poster of her 15-year-old son, Mohammed, shot and killed outside a police station in Alexandria.
"I want Mubarak to be sentenced to death like my son was sentenced to death," she says. "An eye for an eye."
Yet when I press her she admits she does not expect to see that happen. "We are praying to God but we fear justice will not be served," she says.
Nearby, a demonstration in support of  the ousted president is taking place behind a line of riot police. So far only about a dozen people have turned up.
Hosni Mubarak is the first former leader to be tried in person since the start of the Arab Spring uprisings last year.
Zine al-Abidine Ben Ali of Tunisia was found guilty in absentia of drugs and gun charges in July, while Yemen's Ali Abdullah Saleh received immunity from prosecution after handing over power in November. Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi was killed by rebels in October.
Last May, Egypt's prosecutor general declared that Mr Mubarak would stand trial for conspiracy in the killing of about 850 unarmed protesters during the 18-day uprising that forced him to step down in February. He was also charged with using his position to enrich himself.
In August, Mr Mubarak was wheeled into a courtroom on a stretcher, because he had reportedly been suffering heart problems.
The prosecution experienced difficulties from the start, with none of its witnesses providing damning statements. The first five recanted their initial statements that police commanders had been ordered to use live ammunition.
Field Marshal Mohammed Hussein Tantawi, the head of Egypt's ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (Scaf) and former defence minister, reportedly testified in secret that the army had never been instructed to shoot demonstrators.
The trial was suspended from September to December because of a complaint - later dismissed - that the judge was biased.
In the final stage of the trial in early January, the chief prosecutor argued that it was impossible that Mr Mubarak had not ordered police to use deadly force.
The defence argued that the military had been in charge of security when the protesters were killed because the former president had imposed a curfew and transferred responsibility to the chief-of-staff. Police, therefore, could not have received orders from the defendants, their lawyers said.
The prosecutor called for the 84-year-old to be hanged.
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Mubarak-era officials in the dock
Correspondents say that although most observers believe the trial has been conducted relatively fairly, the prosecution maintains it has been denied access to some of the most important evidence.
The court has not heard logs of calls from the interior ministry in the crucial hours when many of the protesters were killed, prosecutors say, and many key insiders have not given evidence while others have only appeared behind closed doors.
Mr Mubarak was also accused of having helped Hussein Salem siphon $714m (Â£464m) in public money out of a deal to sell natural gas to Israel.
He is also alleged to have allowed a company owned by Mr Salem buy government-owned land on the Red Sea coast at a discounted price in return for five villas worth $6.7m.
Alaa and Gamal Mubarak are accused of accepting bribes from Mr Salem, 79, who is currently awaiting extradition from Spain.
On Wednesday, prosecutors said the younger Mubaraks would also go on trial with seven others on charges of stock market manipulation.
The defendants allegedly made illicit gains from the sale of a bank.


A recent incident at the Yarl's Wood detention centre has given HM Inspectorate of Prisons "considerable concern", the BBC has learned.

Detainees say guards broke up a peaceful protest with excessive force two weeks ago, but Serco, the company which runs the Bedfordshire centre for the Home Office, denies this.
One guard involved with the incident has been suspended ahead of an inquiry.
The Home Office says its professional standards unit will investigate.
Bedfordshire police said their inquiry found no offence had taken place.
Officials from the independent HM Inspectorate of Prison, which is currently carrying out an inspection of Yarl's Wood, said their concerns arose from CCTV footage of the incident.
A lawyer for the detainees said a small group of women were staging a peaceful protest in a bedroom with a Kenyan asylum seeker, who was about to be deported. The facility houses up to 400 women under threat of deportation.
Detainees claim dozens of staff in riot gear dragged them out, and that one guard used the edge of his riot shield to hit them on their legs and feet.
Serco said staff had believed the women were armed with cutlery, so the guards had worn protective clothing.
Serco said there was a question over whether a guard had used his shield appropriately. He has now been suspended pending an investigation.
Two members of the facility's staff were suspended last month following allegations of abuse.


Police investigating the death of a man whose remains were found at a Bristol recycling plant on Friday say they do not believe he had been attacked.

Body parts of Matthew Symonds, 34, of no fixed address in Swindon were found at a Biffa depot in Avonmouth.
Avon and Somerset Police said a preliminary post-mortem examination had been completed and more tests were needed to determine the cause of death.
A spokesman said there was "no indication" he had been assaulted.
Officers said the investigation remained focused in Swindon as it has been established the body was transported with commercial recycling waste from a site in the area.
Det Ch Insp Gareth Bevan said: "The team have carried out a large amount of inquiries over the weekend and so far there is no indication that Mr Symonds was assaulted.
"The investigation is ongoing and we continue to keep an open mind about the circumstances of his death."


India is suing Nestle for $100m (£64m) over "unfair trade practices", an official has confirmed to the BBC.

The complaint against Nestle is that it caused damage to consumers through misleading advertisements related to its Maggi noodles product.
Maggi was banned in India after the food safety regulator accused Nestle of not complying with food safety laws.
Nestle has challenged this at the Bombay high court, saying its products are safe.
But the company, which has 80% of India's instant noodles market, has already destroyed 400m packets of Maggi products.
The claim, made on behalf of Indian consumers, was not filed through the courts but with the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission (NCDRC), which has semi-judicial powers.
A Nestle spokesman in Delhi told the Reuters news agency that the company would only be able to "provide substantive response" after it received an official notice about the complaint filed to the NCDRC.
The Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) had earlier said that tests deemed the instant noodles to contain "unsafe and hazardous" amounts of lead.
Nestle says that its noodles are safe as seen in the results of tests conducted in other countries, including the US, Britain and Singapore.
Two Indian laboratories in the western state of Goa and the southern city of Mysore also recently cleared the noodles, but the findings were dismissed by India's food safety authority, saying there were lapses in the tests.
The Bombay high court verdict on the case is expected soon. It has reserved its order, but has suggested that samples of Maggi noodles be re-tested. Nestle has agreed, but the safety regulator has responded negatively.
"There is no provision for such a testing according to the law, we will not follow a different procedure because of Nestle," the lawyer for the regulator told the Indian Express newspaper.
The news of legal action has caused a stir on Indian social media. The tag "Rs 634" - a reference to the amount of the damages the government is seeking (634 crore rupees which is 6.34bn rupees) - has begun trending on Twitter.
Most have asked whether the large amount of compensation that has been sought on behalf of the consumers would be redistributed to everyone who ever ate Maggi.
Others reacted with derision, and even pleaded with the prime minister to intervene.
A few, however, are of the opinion that the action is deserved.


Chris Froome's hopes of victory at the Volta a Catalunya were dashed as the Team Sky rider lost 26 minutes on his rivals in Saturday's penultimate stage.

Alejandro Valverde extended his overall lead as his Movistar team dominated but stage victory was snatched from him by Daryl Impey in a sprint to the line.
Froome, riding his first European race of 2017, had moved second with a strong finish behind Valverde on Friday.
But he struggled on the 190km run from Tortosa to Reus, finishing way behind.
"I said coming into this race that I was here to suffer this week and that's exactly what I've got out of it," said Froome.
"Personally it was great to be up there yesterday with the best guys and to be feeling that good this early on in the season, but days like today are really tough. We just have to learn from them and move on."
Valverde now leads Alberto Contador, who moved up to second, by 53 seconds, with Britain's Adam Yates in fourth, one minute and 21 seconds behind the Spaniard.
Sunday's final stage in Spain is a relatively flat 138km route that begins and ends in Barcelona, with overall victory for Valverde now all but assured.
Geraint Thomas, who began the stage in seventh overall, was also distanced after Froome and Team Sky were among those dropped by an attacking move after the day's opening climb.
The gap only widened over the day, and Froome's group were 21 minutes behind by the time they went over the final climb, the snow-topped category one Alt de la Mussara.
Up the road on the descent, Italians Alessandro de Marchi of BMC and Dario Cataldo of Astana broke clear with 15km to go, but the pair were caught in the final metres, with South African Impey just edging ahead of Valverde.
Team Sky sport director Nicolas Portal said: "We made a big mistake. I'm not going to try to make an excuse. There is no excuse.
"The guys have been brilliant up until today. It looks like it was a positioning issue. The guys weren't in the top positions on the first descent and this is what can happen.
"It's a good reminder for us that it can happen to anyone. It's always bad when it happens, but maybe it's better to happen here, and we learn from it, than in some of the bigger races we will have this season."
Stage six result:
1. Daryl Impey (RSA/Orica) 4hrs 34mins 14secs
2. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) Same time
3. Arthur Vichot (Fra/FDJ)
4. Petr Vakoc (Cze/Quick-Step)
5. Allesandro de Marchi (Ita/BMC)
6. Nick van der Lijke (Ned/Roompot)
7. Dario Cataldo (Ita/Astana)
8. Lennard Kamna (Ger/Team Sunweb)
9. Cyril Gautier (Fra/Ag2r)
10. Daniel Martin (Ire/Quick-Step)
Selected others:
74. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +26min 38secs
86. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) Same time
General classification:
1. Alejandro Valverde (Spa/Movistar) 22hrs 18mins 35secs
2. Alberto Contador (Spa/Trek) +53secs
3. Marc Soler (Spa/Movistar) +1min 6secs
4. Adam Yates (GB/Orica) +1min 21secs
5. Tejay van Garderen (US/BMC Racing) +1min 24secs
6. Daniel Martin (Ire/Quick-Step) +2mins 19secs
7. Steven Kruijswijk (Ned/LottoNL) +2mins 46secs
8. Carlos Verona (Spa/Orica) +2mins 50secs
9, George Bennett (NZ/LottoNL) +2mins 51secs
10. Romain Bardet (Fra/AG2R) +2mins 55secs
Selected others:
31. Chris Froome (GB/Team Sky) +27mins 5secs
32. Geraint Thomas (GB/Team Sky) +28mins 18secs


A woman who suffered severe mental illness after giving birth, has said it is critical Northern Ireland gets a specialist mother and baby unit.

Maria Derbyshire was so ill after having her son Joseph in 2009 she was placed in hospital under the mental health act.
On Tuesday, she joined health care professionals to lobby politicians at Stormont.
About 70 women a year in Northern Ireland require hospital admission.
But during treatment, as there is no mother and baby unit, the woman is separated from her baby.
In England and Scotland there are 17 specialist units.
Mrs Derbyshire said she decided to contact the BBC after hearing a report by health correspondent Marie Louise Connolly last week on perinatal mental health.
"After my first baby, life was very good for a few days. It just fell apart about ten days after my son was born," she said.
"I basically lost touch with reality - I ended up being sectioned.
"I remember going to hospital in the ambulance, I had all these delusions and hallucinations.
"I think I spent around three weeks in a general psychiatric hospital. When I came round I didn't remember I'd had a baby."
Last month the prime minister announced about Â£390m just for perinatal mental health care.
The way the money is divided across the regions means that Northern Ireland should also benefit.
Mrs Derbyshire joined health professionals at Stormont lobbying for the money to be spent entirely on perinatal care here.
Shona Hamilton from the Royal College of Midwives said she is frustrated by the current situation.
"We recognise that across the UK there has been significant investment in mental health services for women," she said.
"Some of that investment should come to Northern Ireland and we would really like to see that ring-fenced for services for women here and the development of very good services - both in the community and in a mother and baby unit "
The chair of the assembly health committee, Sinn FÃ©in's Maeve McLaughlin, was among the politicians who met the group.
"It's very clear in terms of the research that to ignore the problem and to continue to treat the problem will cost five times more than actually putting intervention into place," she said.
"We need a regional approach to this - 20% of women will suffer some sort of mental health issue during pregnancy or within a year after birth. That needs to be tackled."
Mrs Derbyshire is now in good health and has had a second baby, a daughter called Lily.
She said her second pregnancy and post natal experience was entirely different and that it was due to the specialist care she received in the weeks before and immediately after Lily's birth.


A man has pleaded guilty to sexually abusing boys as young as six over a four-year period.

David Jamfrey, 60, of Middlegate, in Scawthorpe, Doncaster, "deliberately targeted and groomed" seven boys between January 2010 and May 2014.
Jamfrey pleaded guilty at Sheffield Crown Court to 17 sexual offences. He will be sentenced on July 16.
Det Con David Whitehouse said he was pleased Jamfrey had admitted his "sick crimes".
He said: "Jamfrey is a dangerous man who deliberately targeted and groomed vulnerable young boys for his own sexual gratification."
Jamfrey pleaded guilty to 11 counts of sexual assault of a male under 13 and four counts of sexual activity with a male aged between 13 and 15.
He also admitted one count of engaging in sexual activity in the presence of a child under 16 and one count of attempting to engage in sexual activity with a child.
His victims were aged between six and 15.


A study to improve the survival rate of unborn twins, with a potentially life threatening syndrome, is under way in Bristol.

St Michael's Hospital is joining other UK foetal medicine centres to set up a twin-to-twin transfusion syndrome (TTTS) registry to share information.
Consultant Mark Denbow said they were "constantly learning" about TTTS.
He said the "rare and often devastating condition" occurs in about 10-15% of identical twin pregnancies.
St Michael's Hospital is also one of a few UK centres offering laser ablation surgery, where doctors can operate on the babies while they are in the womb.
Jo and Finbarr O'Halloran, from Backwell, said they were "devastated" when they discovered  their twins had the syndrome during a hospital scan.
Mrs O'Halloran was given laser ablation surgery at about 22 weeks into the pregnancy in 2013.
A few weeks later, daughters Eve and Amy were born by emergency caesarean section.
Jo O'Halloran said: "I am literally thankful every single day that they survived and that they're here."
Keith Reed, from the Twins and Multiple Birth Association (Tamba), said they were "still only skimming the surface" in terms of data collection.
He said: "In order to build the best possible picture of TTTS cases in the UK, and help see which treatments offer the best possible outcomes, we need more hospitals with foetal medicine departments to sign up."
TTTS affects twins who share a placenta, where the babies are not sharing blood equally.
One baby gets too much blood and the other baby does not get enough.
If left untreated 90% of these babies will die and even with treatment there is only up to 70% chance of both babies surviving.


Rafael Nadal won a stunning heavyweight clash with world number one Novak Djokovic to reach his eighth French Open final.

The seven-time champion, 27, saw off Djokovic 6-4 3-6 6-1 6-7 (3-7) 9-7 in four hours and 37 minutes.
Nadal will play David Ferrer in Sunday's final after his fellow Spaniard overcame France's Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in straight sets.
It will be Nadal's first Grand Slam final since he beat Djokovic at Roland Garros last year, having missed seven months with a serious knee injury.
Friday's first semi-final had been the focus of attention ever since the draw paired the duo in the same half, and it did not disappoint.
While not quite matching the five hours and 53 minutes of their 2012 Australian Open final, there was drama every step of the way.
Nadal failed to serve out the match in the fourth set and Djokovic let a 4-2 lead slip in the fifth, before the Spaniard proved the stronger as the decider headed past one hour and 20 minutes.
"It's very, very special for me," said Nadal. "I want to congratulate Novak, he's a great champion and he will win here at Roland Garros one day, I'm sure.
"Serving for the match at 6-5 in the fourth, I was serving against the wind, so I knew it was going to be a difficult game. I was ready for the fight. In Australia 2012 it was a similar match - today it was me [that won]. That's the great thing about sport."
World number one Djokovic said: "It's been an unbelievable match to be part of, but all I can feel now is disappointment. That's it. I congratulate him, because that's why he's a champion.
Rafael Nadal has lost just once in his 59 matches at Roland Garros - a fourth-round defeat to Sweden's Robin Soderling in 2009
"That's why he's been ruling Roland Garros for many years, and for me it's another year."
With the temperature pushing 30C, Nadal's fearsome forehand had dominated the early stages, helping him to break at 3-3 and go ahead early in the second.
Djokovic would prove to be at his most dangerous when behind, however, stringing together a brilliant four games to level and letting out an almighty roar after one rasping forehand.
The two tournament favourites landed blow after blow on each other, with Nadal responding superbly to dropping the second set by breaking at the start of the third when a line call went against Djokovic.
Nadal closed it out after a brisk 37 minutes, interrupted only when Djokovic headed off court with the trainer, and the champion twice led by a break in the fourth against the apparently fading top seed.
Djokovic refused to yield, however, recovering to 4-4 before some magnificent returning denied Nadal as he served for a place in the final at 6-5.
With the wind in his sails once again, Djokovic raced through the tie-break, levelling the match with a fizzing forehand that caught out Nadal at the net, and got his first glimpse of a place in the final with another great return at the start of the fifth.
Djokovic, looking for the one Grand Slam title that has so far eluded him, made it to 4-2 before Nadal began to reel him in, levelling in a thrilling game that saw the Serb miss an easy put away by touching the net at deuce.
Both men produced brilliant tennis, and the occasional shocking miss, as the games ticked by and the tension rose, but several missed smashes and complaints to the umpire about the slippery court suggested Djokovic was the edgier.
When the end came, it was swift, as Nadal fired a forehand winner on his way to three match points and Djokovic sent a tired forehand over the baseline.
It might only have been a semi-final, but the Spaniard's reaction showed how thrilled he was to reach his first Slam final after 12 months so disrupted by injury.


Barry Smith has been appointed as the new manager of Raith Rovers on a two-year contract after leaving East Fife.

He replaces John Hughes, 52, who left Rovers following their relegation to Scottish League One.
The Kirkcaldy side finished second bottom of the Championship and lost their play-off semi-final against Brechin City.
Former Celtic player Smith, 43, previously managed Dundee, Alloa Athletic and Aldershot Town.
He managed in the second tier and the top flight with Dundee and has taken charge of more than 200 matches at first-team level.
"Everyone at Stark's Park extends a warm welcome to our new 'gaffer'," said Raith Rovers on their website.


Nauris Bulvitis' first goal in English football handed Plymouth their first victory of the season as they ground out a 2-1 win at Notts County to end a three-game losing run.

Jake Jervis had earlier opened Plymouth's account for the season with a clinical strike before veteran striker Jon Stead hauled County level.
But Bulvitis, signed in the summer from Spartaks Jurmala, rose highest to meet Connor Smith's 32nd-minute corner and bag the Pilgrims all three points.
Sonny Bradley came to Plymouth's rescue after 10 minutes when he cleared a Stead shot off the line before Matt Tootle's follow-up was blocked by Oscar Threlkeld.
It was Argyle, through, who opened the scoring five minutes later when Gary Miller intercepted a wayward pass and found Jervis, who drilled a low shot into the bottom corner.
Notts were behind for just three minutes as Stead broke free down the right, cut into the box, beat two players and fired an effort past Luke McCormick.
Home debutant Louis Laing had a shot blocked and headed over, either side of Bradley slicing a clearance against his own woodwork.
Sloppy defending from Notts, though, handed Argyle the initiative once more as Latvian international Bulvitus nodded in Smith's corner.
Jonathan Forte flicked a header just wide early in the second half and Tootle nodded Alex Rodman's cross off target, while in a rare Plymouth attack, Graham Carey's shot was kept out by Adam Collin.
McCormick brilliantly kept out Thierry Audel's shot in injury time as Plymouth hung on to the points.
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Match ends, Notts County 1, Plymouth Argyle 2.
Second Half ends, Notts County 1, Plymouth Argyle 2.
Foul by Michael O'Connor (Notts County).
Oscar Threlkeld (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Gary Sawyer (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card.
Corner,  Plymouth Argyle. Conceded by Alex Rodman.
Corner,  Notts County. Conceded by Luke McCormick.
Attempt saved. Michael O'Connor (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is saved in the bottom right corner.
Corner,  Notts County. Conceded by Yann Songo'o.
Corner,  Notts County. Conceded by Gary Miller.
Richard Duffy (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle).
Foul by Michael O'Connor (Notts County).
Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Luke McCormick (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card.
Adam Campbell (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Nauris Bulvitis (Plymouth Argyle).
Yann Songo'o (Plymouth Argyle) is shown the yellow card.
Alex Rodman (Notts County) wins a free kick on the left wing.
Foul by Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle).
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Ben Purrington replaces Graham Carey because of an injury.
Foul by Alex Rodman (Notts County).
Oscar Threlkeld (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Ryan Donaldson replaces Jake Jervis.
Attempt saved. Richard Duffy (Notts County) right footed shot from the left side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Attempt saved. Graham Carey (Plymouth Argyle) right footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top right corner.
Attempt missed. Adam Campbell (Notts County) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Substitution, Notts County. Adam Campbell replaces Matt Tootle.
Substitution, Notts County. Vadaine Oliver replaces Jon Stead.
Attempt missed. Michael O'Connor (Notts County) right footed shot from outside the box is too high.
Attempt blocked. Alex Rodman (Notts County) right footed shot from the right side of the box is blocked.
Foul by Stanley Aborah (Notts County).
Connor Smith (Plymouth Argyle) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Stanley Aborah (Notts County) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Jordan Slew (Plymouth Argyle).
Substitution, Plymouth Argyle. Jordan Slew replaces James Spencer because of an injury.
Corner,  Notts County. Conceded by Sonny Bradley.
Jon Stead (Notts County) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sonny Bradley (Plymouth Argyle).
Attempt missed. Matt Tootle (Notts County) header from the centre of the box misses to the left.


A 20-year-old from Florida is accused of posing as an Australian jihadist and trying to help plan an attack on a 9/11 memorial in Missouri.

US officials charged Joshua Goldberg with distributing information on explosives, destructive devices and weapons of mass destruction.
Mr Goldberg chatted online with an undercover FBI agent, offering information on bomb building.
He told the agent to put the bomb at a 9/11 memorial in Kansas City, Missouri.
Pressure-cooker bombs were used in the Boston marathon bombings that left three dead and dozens hurt.
In other instances this year the FBI has charged American residents with plotting terrorist attacks after finding them online.
The FBI agent had found Mr Goldberg's online messages, in which he was posing as an Australian jihadist, offering to assist in plotting terror attacks in Australia and Texas.
"What weapons do you have brother? I can send you guides on how to make bombs if you need help making them," wrote Mr Goldberg in one message to the agent.
Mr Goldberg sent bomb-making guides to the agent on 19 August, asking the agent how he wanted to attack on 11 September.
He suggested a pressure-cooker bomb and picked out a 9/11 memorial event in Missouri, the Kansas City Stair Climb.
Australian police interviewed a witness who said Mr Goldberg's online acts were "part of a hoax" and he was a "proponent of radical free speech".
He will also be charged with providing information online to spur terrorist attacks in Australia.


House prices are up 3.1% on figures from the first quarter of this year.

The trend upwards is reflected in the year on year figures, which recorded a 4.4% increase since this time last year.
According to official figures, the average cost of a home in Northern Ireland is £128,650.
There is a variation across different council areas - prices can range from £109,939 in Derry city and Strabane, to £154,704 in Lisburn and Castlereagh.
The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency said the biggest jump in price was seen in Mid Ulster, where average house prices rose 9% over the last 12 months.
The slowest price growth was in Belfast, with prices just 1% higher than this time last year.
Apartments saw the biggest increase with a 4.1% rise, while terrace houses increased by 3.5%.
Both detached and semi-detached increased by 2.8% over the same quarter.
Commenting on the figures Richard Ramsey, chief economist at Ulster Bank said they reflect a two-speed market.
He said that while prices for new build houses have increased significantly, the rise in cost of existing properties had not increased as fast.
"New builds are at an eight-year high, one third below their peak in 2007. Meanwhile the average price of existing properties is still 45% below its peak." He said.
According to the Northern Ireland Statistics Agency 5,106 residential properties were sold between April and June 2017.


One of Great Britain's most successful Paralympians has said wheelchair services across England are failing on every level.

Baroness Tanni Grey-Thompson has launched a new national charter to improve services across the country.
Some people wait years for the right wheelchair and an ill-fitting chair can cause hip dislocations, pressure sores and make disabilities worse.
NHS England said the whole system needed to change.
There are about 1.2 million wheelchair users across the UK, but NHS England said the figures were old and work needed to be done collecting data locally to get a detailed picture of what was happening across the country.
Baroness Grey-Thompson, who launched the Right Chair Right Time Right Now campaign, said the standard of wheelchair services differed greatly depending on where a person lived.
She gave examples of some people waiting three months for a suitable chair and some waiting seven years under a different NHS trust.
Most worryingly, she explained, is hearing stories of people with life-limiting conditions, such as Motor Neurone Disease, dying before they get their wheelchair, spending the last few months of their lives trapped inside their homes.
But it is not just a moral responsibility, Baroness Grey-Thompson said.
"I think the problem is huge, not just the wait times, but the ultimate cost to the NHS. If people aren't sitting on the right cushion, they're not in the right chair, it's causing harm to people."
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Those who work in the service say a lack of national guidelines and funding means it is in need of reform.
Krystyn Jarvis, of the National Wheelchair Managers' Forum, said wheelchair services were not seen as an important part of the NHS.
"We have been asking for change for more than 20 years. We know the situation isn't acceptable," she said.
"But because every locality commissions differently, you were always going to get this postcode lottery."
Baroness Grey-Thompson has launched the charter in the hope that services, clinical commissioning groups and NHS trusts across England will sign up to it.
She posed in a wheelbarrow alongside otherwise wheelchair users in front of the Houses of Parliament to highlight the importance of the right chair.
Although the charter isn't mandatory, the Wheelchair Leadership Alliance is hoping that its 10-point pledge will be the first step to a fair and effective service for those who need it.
NHS England said it "absolutely shared the ambition of the Leadership Alliance that wheelchair users and their families should be supported to lead full, independent and active lives".
"For the first time ever we have set up a rigorous data collection mechanism, and our work to both pilot a tariff for wheelchairs and support commissioners will also help implementation of the charter locally," it added.


1 July this year is the centenary of the start of the Battle of the Somme.

In Northern Ireland, people have been commemorating the suffering of the 36th Ulster Division and the loss of more than 2,000 of its men in the first few days of the battle.
However, thousands of men from what is now the Republic of Ireland also fought for the British Army, in the ranks of the 16th Irish Division, which lost about 1,200 men in a single action in September during the Somme.
The British Pathe news reels from the time do not convey the mass killings of World War One.
It was death on an industrial scale.
There were 420,000 British casualties alone in the Battle of the Somme - the price paid for moving the front line just four and a half miles (7.2km).
Inside a public library in Dublin's Pearse Street are the archive files of a soldier with the Royal Dublin Fusiliers, to which we have been given access.
An injured Sgt Joseph Flanagan, with a fashionable handle-bar moustache, is seen in one photograph sitting to the right of the nurse with his cap on his lap.
He survived the Somme and can be seen in another photograph with his son and grandson, Hubert.
"He was wounded in the first day of the Battle of the Somme, lost an arm and was subsequently discharged," Hubert says.
"The fact that he lost an arm may have made him very lucky, because he lived so long afterwards."
Thomas Kettle, a scholar, a Dubliner and a former Nationalist MP for East Tyrone, was not so lucky.
Kettle was in Belgium at the start of the war to raise guns for the Irish Volunteers and witnessed atrocities carried out by the Germans and that prompted him to join the British army.
Most of the soldiers in regiments from what is now the Republic of Ireland did not get involved in the fighting at the Somme until September 1916 and, like the 36th Ulster Regiment, they too suffered heavy casualties.
The Dubliner was among those who died at Ginchy on 9 September 1916.
Ronan McGreevy, an Irish Times journalist and the author of a book, Wherever The Firing Line Extends, believes Thomas Kettle's life reflects how Ireland was changing at the time because of the Easter Rising.
He says that before he died, Kettle prophesised that if he was killed "he'd be remembered as a bloody British officer while those men who fought and died in the Easter 1916 Rising would be remembered as heroes".
Proof of that prophecy, his family believe, is the length of time - 21 years - it took his supporters to get his bust erected in St Stephen's Green in the centre of Dublin.
Declan Kettle, the great-grand-nephew of the former MP, says of his relative: "He made a huge contribution to Ireland and Irish history, not just in politics but in education.
"He was the first Professor of Economics in the National University.  He achieved so much in such a short period of time that he would also have been a huge contributor had he lived."
It is a curiosity of history that a fellow officer, Emmet Dalton, held Tom Kettle as he lay dying and placed a crucifix in his palm.
It was the same Emmet Dalton, who later became an IRA leader against the British in the Irish War of Independence and who also cradled IRA leader Michael Collins and reportedly also placed a crucifix in his palm a few years later as Collins lay dying at BÃ©al na mBlÃ¡th in County Cork, shot by republican anti-treaty soldiers during the Civil War.
The Islandbridge War Memorial and Gardens along the banks of Dublin's river Liffey are dedicated to the almost 50,000 Irishmen, mainly from what is now the Republic, who died fighting in WW1, including the Somme.
Until relatively recently they were largely written out of Irish history, not least because they died fighting in British uniforms, even though as late as 1924 thousands of Dubliners honoured those who died in the war.
But that amnesia is no longer the case, according to the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs Charlie Flanagan.
He says it is important that the Republic of Ireland as a state is now giving "full recognition and careful consideration to the many thousands of people from this island who lost their lives in pursuit of freedom in the First World War".
"I regret very much", he adds, "it hasn't been possible to do so.  And we will be acknowledging during July the 36th Ulster Division and the 16th Irish Division, and it's entirely important and appropriate that we so do."
Also in the coming weeks the French President, Francois Hollande is expected to come to Islandbridge to pay his country's tribute to and to honour those Irish men who sacrificed their lives on French soil.
Shane Harrison's TV report will be broadcast as part of BBC Newsline on BBC One Northern Ireland at about 18:30 BST on Thursday, 16 June 2016.


Gypsy and traveller families from around Newport could be given a new home at a residential site.

The city council plans to house people who have been living at unauthorised or unsuitable locations at a new site on Hartridge Farm Road.
Newport was identified as the area with the highest number of illegal camps in Wales and in 2009, 28 out of 30 caravans there  were illegally parked.
Its planning committee will consider the proposal at a future date.
All councils in Wales are legally required to provide accommodation for Gypsy and traveller communities.


Australian Open venue Margaret Court Arena will not be renamed despite the 24-time Grand Slam champion's opposition to same-sex marriage.

The Australian, 74, now a Christian pastor, says she will not fly on Qantas "where possible" in protest of its support of same-sex marriage.
Tennis Australia stated that her personal views "are her own".
Grand Slam winners Martina Navratilova and Billie Jean King, who are both gay, have previously criticised Court.
The venue was originally called Show Court One when it opened in 1988 before it was renamed in 2003 in tribute to the multiple Grand Slam winner.
The Margaret Court Arena also hosts other sporting events and concerts.
Court expressed her views in an open letter to the national airline published in The West Australian newspaper.
She said: "I am disappointed that Qantas has become an active promoter for same-sex marriage.
"I believe in marriage as a union between a man and a woman as stated in the Bible.
"Your statement leaves me no option but to use other airlines where possible for my extensive travelling."
American singer Ryan Adams, who is playing at the arena on Friday, tweeted: "Hey Margaret Court, a PAGAN who STRONGLY SUPPORTS marriage equality (get a prenup tho) will play the arena named for you tomorrow."
And Tom Steinfort, a senior correspondent for Nine News in Australia, tweeted:  "I'll never set foot in Margaret Court Arena again because of this."
Peter FitzSimons, chairman of Australia's Republican Movement, called for the venue to be renamed in a piece for the Sydney Morning Herald.
Tennis Australia tweeted a response: "As a legend of the sport, we respect Margaret Court's achievements in tennis and her unmatched playing record. Her personal views are her own, and do not align with Tennis Australia's values of equality, inclusion and diversity."
Court won 11 Australian Open singles titles in the 1960s and 1970s, five French Opens, five US Opens and three Wimbledon crowns.


Iraq's Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi has said the country plans to "liberate" the eastern province of Anbar from Islamic State (IS).

"Our next... battle will be here in the land of Anbar to completely liberate it," his office quoted him as saying.
Military sources say Iraqi troops are fighting IS east of the regional capital Ramadi.
Government forces recaptured Tikrit from IS last week after it fell to the jihadist militants in June.
Mr Abadi said in a post on his official Facebook page (in Arabic): "We will prevail in Anbar as we prevailed in Tikrit."
Army officers said IS militants had been driven back in the Sijariya area east of Ramadi.
Anbar, a heavily-Sunni area stretching west from the capital Baghdad to the Syrian border, is the country's biggest province. Most of its towns and cities are held by IS or other Sunni insurgents.
Falluja, a key city in the region overrun by IS, is said to be blockaded on three sides amidst a build-up for an assault.
In addition to Iraqi army units, Shia militia forces are also reported to be moving in to the province from areas to the south of Baghdad.
The use of Shia irregulars in heavily-Sunni heartlands is controversial although PM Abadi is organising the mobilisation and arming of local Sunni tribes, reports the BBC's Middle East correspondent Jim Muir.
Efforts to dislodge Sunni militants from cities like Falluja have failed in the past, so recapturing the whole of the huge Anbar province is clearly a major undertaking, our correspondent notes.
But the government is evidently hoping to keep up the momentum of the defeat inflicted on the militants at Tikrit, he adds.
Iraqi officials have argued for some time that to isolate IS in its bastions along the Syrian border, Anbar should be the next major target either on its own or in a parallel attack on the northern province of Nineveh.
US troops occupied Anbar for eight years, suffering heavy losses in the process to Sunni insurgents.


West Indies off-spinner Sunil Narine has been banned from bowling in international cricket after his action was judged to be illegal.

An independent assessment ruled that the 27-year-old from Trinidad bent his elbow beyond the 15-degree limit in all variations of his deliveries.
Narine was reported during this month's third one-day game against Sri Lanka.
He is the number one bowler in the world rankings for one-day and Twenty20 internationals.
An International Cricket Council statement said: "Narine's international suspension will also be recognised and enforced by all national cricket federations within domestic cricket events played in their own jurisdiction."
However, the world governing body added that he may be able to play domestically in the West Indies with the consent of the West Indies Cricket Board.
Narine was twice reported for a suspect action in September and October while playing for Kolkata Knight Riders in the Champions League Twenty20.
He withdrew from the West Indies squad for this year's World Cup in order to spend time remodelling his action.


Sebastian Vettel set a blistering pace as Ferrari dominated final practice at the Monaco Grand Prix.

Ferrari were one-two with the four-time world champion 0.345 seconds ahead of team-mate Kimi Raikkonen and Mercedes' Valtteri Bottas 0.435secs off in fourth.
Vettel's title rival Lewis Hamilton was only fifth, 0.835secs off the pace.
Jenson Button was 12th fastest on his one-off return to Formula 1 and has been hit by a 15-place grid penalty.
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The 2009 world champion is standing in for Fernando Alonso while the Spaniard races at the Indianapolis 500 this weekend.
McLaren's engine partner Honda discovered after second practice on Thursday a problem with the MGU-H, the part of the hybrid system that recovers energy from the turbo.
It and the turbo - which are one unit - had to be changed and as those are the fifth examples of those parts that car has used this season, penalties were inevitable.
It means Button, whose team-mate Stoffel Vandoorne was 10th fastest, will almost certainly start from the back of the grid, which means a difficult race on a track on which it is extremely difficult to overtake.
The session was interrupted towards the end by a crash by Force India's Esteban Ocon.
The Frenchman, driving at Monaco for the first time, clipped the inside barrier at the second Swimming Pool chicane, breaking his right front suspension and catapulting him into the barrier on the exit.
The car was removed from the impact-absorbing barrier within a few minutes and the session restarted for a final four minutes.
But although both Mercedes sent both Hamilton and Bottas out for a final lap, they could not close on the Ferraris.
Mercedes will have some thinking to do ahead of qualifying, which will be held under beautiful blue Cote d'Azur skies at 13:00 BST.
The world champions appear to be struggling around the streets of Monaco just as they were at the Russian Grand Prix two races ago.
Both circuits have similarities, in that they have low-grip, low-abrasion track surfaces. Coupled with the fact that the softest 'ultra-soft' tyre is durable enough to do an entire race distance around the principality, it is giving Mercedes difficulties in getting the Pirellis into the right operating window.
However, in Russia, Bottas managed to find a solution to qualify third, close behind the Ferraris, and jump them at the start before winning the race.
Mercedes will get a performance boost by turning their engine up for qualifying but at this stage it does not look as if the 0.2-second gain they get from that will be enough to allow them to challenge the Ferraris for the front row.
They may struggle to beat the Red Bulls, with Verstappen just 0.11secs behind Bottas and Daniel Ricciardo 0.162secs off Hamilton despite stopping on track at the end of the session with a failure of the brake-by-wire system.
The two Toro Rosso cars look set to contend for the positions in the top 10, after Carlos Sainz and Daniil Kvyat ended the session seventh and eighth, ahead of Haas driver Kevin Magnussen.
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"Small delays" will be caused by the merging of two lanes of traffic in St Peter Port, admits Guernsey's principle traffic officer.

The main route through the island's capital reopened on Wednesday after six and a half weeks of work to change the road layout.
Colin Le Page said: "It shouldn't have a huge impact... studies show it won't be huge delays.
"But there's a huge improvement for pedestrian safety."
The increased pavements size, signage and barriers follow a move to disembark cruise ship passengers from the Albert Pier, rather than the inter-island quay.
Some parking spaces at Albert Pier and the bus terminus will be unavailable on days when cruise ship passengers are visiting the island.
The aim is to ensure pedestrian safety and make space for coaches to pick up passengers for tours.
Mr Le Page said the "temporary" changes would be monitored for a year before a long-term decision was made.
The States estimate the total economic value of the cruise liner industry to the island is Â£6m a year and expects it to rise with more passengers due to come ashore this season.


The UK government spent about £20m on consultants to help negotiate aspects of the deal to build Hinkley C nuclear power station, the BBC has learnt.

The £18bn plant, being built by French energy company EDF in Somerset, will meet 7% of Britain's electricity needs
The consultant spend, which includes more than £12m on law firm Slaughter and May, was revealed in a BBC Freedom of Information (FoI) request.
The Stop Hinkley campaign group said it was "shocking, but not surprising".
Figures released by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy show that four firms paid to advise the government between 2011 and 2016 were:
Stop Hinkley spokesman Roy Pumfrey said: "I knew years ago we were racking up bills for lawyers for Hinkley C.
"It seems to me absolutely outrageous that this bill has mushroomed, that we have got to more than £20m of public money spent on this."
In a statement, the department said the consultants had provided "legal, technical, financial skills and knowledge that were vital to support the department in its negotiations with EDF".
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Theresa May delayed a final government decision on the project when she became prime minister, before it was finally approved in September.
It took years for EDF and the government to negotiate a guaranteed fixed price for electricity from Hinkley Point C of £92.50 per megawatt hours for the next 35 years.
Conservative MP for Bridgwater and West Somerset, Ian Liddell-Grainger, defended the cost of the consultants.
Mr Liddell-Grainger, who sat on the Public Administration Select Committee for 10 years, said that in the context of an £18bn investment for Britain and the complications of the Hinkley deal, it represented good value for money.
"We looked at this a few times and the cost to the government of taking these people [consultants] on full time to do specialist things like Hinkley... is just not going to be cost- effective," he said.
"So this is the only way round it."


Authorities in the Central African Republic (CAR) should confiscate "blood diamonds" to prevent them being exported, Amnesty International says.

The human rights group said CAR's biggest traders have been buying diamonds without properly checking their origins.
Armed groups on both sides of CAR's conflict have been profiting from the diamond trade, it said.
There has been renewed violence in the capital, Bangui, in recent days.
The fighting between Christian and Muslim groups has left at least 38 people dead and forced more than 10,000 to flee.
CAR has been wracked by violence since a mainly Muslim rebel group, the Seleka, seized power in March 2013.
The Seleka group was then ousted, sparking a wave of violent reprisals against the Muslim population, thousands of whom fled their homes.
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Amnesty said both the Seleka and the Christian or animist anti-balaka militia had been profiting from the diamond trade by controlling mine sites and "taxing" or extorting "protection money" from miners and traders.
Diamond trading firms could soon start exporting stones stockpiled during the conflict, if CAR is seen to have met conditions set by the international Kimberly process and an export ban is lifted, Amnesty said.
"The government should confiscate any blood diamonds, sell them and use the money for the public benefit," said Amnesty's Lucy Graham.
"As the country seeks to rebuild, it needs its diamonds to be a blessing, not a curse."
The capital appeared to be calmer on Wednesday, though the local Red Cross were quoted as saying it was still too dangerous on Bangui's streets to pick up bodies.
Interim President Catherine Samba Panza returned from the UN General Assembly on Tuesday, and told the BBC that elections postponed for October would be cancelled.
She accused "former dignitaries" of fomenting violence, singling out former President Francois Bozize. He responded by saying that "democracy was murdered".


It is hard to find someone in Frankfurt who will say they want Britain to leave the EU - but many are already planning to take advantage if it does.

A "leave" vote would oblige the banks, insurance companies and other financial businesses that use London as a base for their European operations to move some of their business into the eurozone.
Frankfurt, Germany's financial capital, hopes to be top of their list of possible new homes.
"In the unlikely event that the UK were to leave, Frankfurt would clearly be a main beneficiary," says Hubertus Vaeth, who runs Frankfurt Main Finance, the industry association for the city's banks.
"Though Frankfurt would benefit from such a move, the loss would be the EU's as a whole. So we will not want to benefit at the expense of the entire EU."
Nonetheless, Dr Vaeth says, people are getting ready. "Quite a few actors have prepared. Don't ask me for names, because nobody wants to be quoted on that - but we do know from quite a few players that they have plans for such an unlikely event," he says.
"You have to plan for all sorts of events, and even the unlikely ones."
Earlier this year, three former UK ambassadors to the EU warned that other financial centres in Europe would "not be sentimental in seeking to challenge the City's prominence".
It doesn't follow that the Frankfurt is actively hoping for Brexit. It's a cosmopolitan city and home to one of the European project's great institutions, its central bank. The disruption that Brexit would cause is likely to be keenly felt here.
German business is strongly anti-Brexit. A recent survey by the Bertelsmann Stiftung think-tank found that 83% of German businesses opposed it.
There is no guarantee that Frankfurt would be the unrivalled beneficiary.
HSBC has already said it would move its business to Paris, where it owns a French bank. Luxembourg would also be in the running. And Dublin would have the appeal of being an English-speaking city - with a better reputation than Frankfurt as a place for fun.
Frankfurt's dull image is perhaps not entirely fair. It has art museums, an opera house, and a top-flight football team. Twelve of the city's restaurants have been awarded a coveted Michelin star (although admittedly London has more than five times that number).
Frankfurt is in many ways an easier city to live in. Residents are spared the misery of London's crowded, expensive commutes, and its well-connected airport is just a 15 minute ride from the centre by taxi.
Perhaps most appealingly, a penthouse apartment fit for a Master of the Universe would cost less than a third of an equivalent property in London, says David Schmitt of Engel and Voelkers, a high-end estate agent based next to the old Opera House.
His business is likely to be a major beneficiary if Brexit does come.
"I think for us there will be an upside," Mr Schmitt says, given that more bankers means demand for homes.
"I think prices will go up by 10 or 15% because the market is very tight already. There is high pressure on the real estate market, and this makes the pressure even higher."
Of course, rising house prices are not universally hailed as a good thing, especially in a country which doesn't share the British obsession with owning the roof over one's head.
"For people trying to get on the property ladder, that might not be an advantage," says local businessman Martin Frank.
Mr Frank runs SchuF, a small family-owned valve-making firm he calls the "epitome" of the Mittelstand - the manufacturers that many regard as the bedrock of German industrial might.
His company has a factory in Devon, and he worries that Brexit might lead to tariffs being imposed on UK exports to Europe and vice versa, harming his business.
He also fears Britain's departure would rob the EU's decision-making process of a strong advocate for reform and liberalisation.
"Europe is definitely divided into different camps, and Britain is definitely in the reforming camp," Mr Frank says. "So I think Germany, which is probably more in the reforming side than it used to be, would not welcome Britain leaving."
A "leave" vote would bring great uncertainty - and the size of the potential boost to Frankfurt is far from clear. But the possible opportunity has certainly been noticed.
"This is a 'get things done' city," Dr Vaeth says. "Housing obviously would be a little bit of a challenge, but housing in London is even more of a challenge.
"So relatively speaking would it be a problem? No, clearly not. The infrastructure is in place, the skills are in place, the technical infrastructure is there. Housing? Offices? What needs to be done will be done - fast."
Few in Frankfurt want Brexit, but it seems they are ready if it comes.


The Rolling Stones have topped the UK chart with their latest album Blue & Lonesome - their first original studio album to reach number one for 22 years.

It notched up 106,000 combined sales across all platforms - the second highest opening week sales so far this year behind David Bowie's Blackstar.
Blue & Lonesome is the 12th album by The Rolling Stones to reach number one.
The Official Charts Company said 95,000 of the album's sales were physical - the rest were downloads and streams.
It was also the only new entry in this week's top 40.
The last Rolling Stones album to reach number one was a 2010 reissue of Exile On Main St, but 1994's Voodoo Lounge was the band's last album of original studio material to top the chart.
The news came a day after Sir Mick Jagger became a father for the eighth time at the age of 73.
Last week's number one - Glory Days by Little Mix - has dropped to number three this week.
Michael Ball and Alfie Boe's Together has held on to the number two spot, while Elvis Presley and Olly Murs round off the top five.
On the singles chart, Rockabye by Clean Bandit - which features Anne-Marie and Sean Paul - has held on to the top spot for the fifth week, giving the band their longest ever run at number one.
It has now overtaken their 2014 single Rather Be, which spent four weeks at number one.
The rest of the top five is unchanged from last week's chart.
Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You has jumped 23 places to number six, marking the first time the track has appeared in the top 10 for nine years, according to the Official UK Charts Company.
Rag N Bone Man's Human has entered the top 10 for the first time, reaching number eight.
Earlier this week, he was named the winner of this year's Brits Critics' Choice Award.
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Chelsea manager Antonio Conte believes the huge money being spent on players by Chinese clubs is a "danger for all teams in the world".

Blues midfielder Oscar, 25, is close to a £60m move to Chinese Super League club Shanghai SIPG in January and is expected to receive an estimated £400,000 a week.
Conte said it would be "difficult" to manage a player on such a high salary.
Chinese clubs spent £200m before the start of the 2016 season.
The Chinese transfer record was broken three times in 10 days, as Chelsea's Brazil midfielder Ramires was signed by Jiangsu Suning for £25m, followed by Guangzhou Evergrande Taobao buying Colombia striker Jackson Martinez for £31m from Atletico Madrid.
Jiangsu then paid Shakhtar Donetsk £38.4m for Brazilian midfielder Alex Teixeira.
However, the fee for Teixeira was eclipsed by the £46.1m paid by Shanghai SIPG for Zenit St Petersburg's Brazil forward Hulk during the mid-season summer window.
The next Chinese transfer window opens on 1 January and closes on 28 February.
Arsenal midfielder Alexis Sanchez has been linked with a reported £500,000-a-week contract at Hebei China Fortune, managed by former Manchester City boss Manuel Pellegrini.
"The Chinese market is a danger for all teams in the world, not only for Chelsea," said Conte.
But speaking about the Premier League, he added: "This league is fantastic, a great opportunity [for players], a great honour and we should be very proud we play in this league."
Conte refused to confirm Oscar's move, saying: "I don't know exactly the amount, or the situation. Now we have to wait - when it is the moment you will know."


George Williams scored a late winner to secure a vital three points for Barnsley against Peterborough in their pursuit of a League One play-off spot.

The win moved Barnsley level on points with sixth-placed Gillingham.
Posh were reduced to 10 men when Chris Forrester picked up two bookings in the space of 20 first-half seconds.
Ben Alnwick looked to have denied the hosts the win with a string of fine saves before Williams nodded in Adam Hammill's cross with seconds to go.


Huddersfield Town striker Rekeil Pyke has joined relegated League Two club Port Vale on a season-long loan.

Former Colchester loanee Pyke, 19, scored twice for Vale in a pre-season friendly win over non-league neighbours Kidsgrove on Saturday.
Pyke failed to score in 12 outings for Colchester last season after joining the Essex club on loan during the January transfer window.
Vale have signed two other strikers Tom Pope and Tyrone Barnett this summer.
Boss Michael Brown has also made six other close-season signings, winger Cristian Montano, goalkeepers Rob Lainton and Sam Hornby, and defenders Joe Davis, Graham Kelly and Antony Kay.
They are also expected to sign experienced full-back Lawrie Wilson following his release from promoted Championship side Bolton Wanderers.
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When Tanveer Ahmed was sentenced to a minimum of 27 years in jail for murder last August, Judge Lady Rae said he had committed a "brutal, barbaric and horrific crime".

Ahmed stabbed to death Glasgow shopkeeper Asad Shah - who belonged to the persecuted Ahmadi sect - because he believed he was committing blasphemy by uploading online videos in which he claimed to be a prophet.
But in Pakistan, Ahmed is developing a growing number of supporters who see him as a "defender of Islam" for having killed someone they believed to be disrespecting the Prophet Muhammad.
On Monday evening, about 400 gathered outside his family's home in the city of Mirpur, in Pakistan-administered Kashmir for a rally in his honour. The crowd chanted slogans praising Ahmed as "brave" and "courageous".
One man attending said: "Because of what he did, the whole of Pakistan knows who he is."
Another speaker told supporters Ahmed could help mediate their prayers.
"You should close your eyes, raise your hand towards the sky and pray, making Ghazi [warrior] Tanveer your representative," he said.
The event was organised by the anti-blasphemy religious lobby group Labaik Ya Rasool Ullah (Here I am present, o Prophet of Allah).
The same group has championed another killer - Mumtaz Qadri - who in 2011 shot dead a high profile Pakistani politician for trying to reform the country's blasphemy laws.
Blasphemy is an emotive issue in Pakistan, where it is legally punishable by death.
After Qadri was executed last year, tens of thousands of his supporters attended his funeral, and a shrine housing his tomb has been built in Rawalpindi.
Hardline cleric Khadim Rizvi is one of the leading figures in Labaik Ya Rasool Ullah, and is the most prominent supporter of Tanveer Ahmed.
As well as images of Mumtaz Qadri, Rizvi now uses images of Ahmed to promote his rallies and talks.
Ahmed had cited Qadri as his inspiration for killing his victim, and their supporters often compare the two killers.
In a BBC interview Rizvi said support for Ahmed was not as widespread as that for Qadri - but that Ahmed was held in particularly high esteem for having killed someone accused of blasphemy in a non-Muslim country.
Over the past few months a Facebook page run by Rizvi's followers has released a number of audio messages from Ahmed whilst in jail. The messages included Ahmed justifying his own actions - and repeating slogans that "the penalty for blasphemers is for their heads to be cut off".
Rizvi was prevented from attending the rally in Mirpur by police, but I met him earlier this month after another rally.
He said that until recently he would talk to Tanveer Ahmed on the phone "every couple of weeks", and that he was proud of his friendship with him.
"I'm proud of the fact that we are in contact - and this pride will remain until the day of judgement and beyond."
Rizvi added that his conversations with Ahmed included discussions on the topic of blasphemy, and chants in support of the Prophet Muhammad.
After a BBC report in January 2017 on Ahmed's audio messages from jail, the Scottish Prison Service banned him from using the phone.
Rizvi said since the ban he had not spoken to Ahmed - but was confident they would resume contact.
"God willing it won't change anything - phonecalls have been banned - letters haven't - he will write to us."
Rizvi, Ahmed and Qadri all come from the Sufi Barelvi sect of Sunni Islam, one normally associated with more spiritual interpretations of the religion.
Rizvi, for example, is vocal in his condemnation of recent attacks in Pakistan, and of militant groups like the so-called Islamic State.
But in Pakistan, Barelvis have been at the forefront of anti-blasphemy campaigns.
"A Sufi is someone who devotes his life to the Prophet Muhammad - if someone insults the Prophet and they just let it go - they are not a real Sufi," Rizvi said.
Other Sufi Barelvi scholars strongly disagree with Rizvi's position - but he is an influential figure in Pakistan.
At the mosque in Glasgow that Asad Shah used to attend, there is concern at how hardline views on blasphemy from Pakistan are being spread in the UK.
Abdul Abid, former president of the Scottish Ahmadiyya community, said: "Pakistan has got a problem - and this problem is being exported outside of Pakistan."
Now it seems Tanveer Ahmed - from a jail cell in Scotland - is helping strengthen the anti-blasphemy movement back in Pakistan.


Championship One leaders Ards will go into their final match against Loughgall on Saturday still requiring one point to seal promotion.

Niall Currie's men missed a chance to secure their Premiership return on Thursday night as they fell to a 2-0 defeat away to Knockbreda.
Early goals by Andrew Ferguson and Kyle Owens clinched the home victory on the Upper Braniel Road.
Ards remain three points ahead of second-placed H&W Welders.
Defeat for Ards at home to Loughgall on Saturday would give the Welders the chance to snatch the title on goal difference by beating Bangor.
The Welders do not have a Premiership licence, however, and would not go up to the top flight.
That would mean there would be no automatic relegation from the Premiership this season, and the club finishing bottom would go into a play-off with Ards.


Two teenagers who killed two men in separate attacks in West Lothian have been given life sentences.

Andrew Moran, 19, was ordered to serve at least 24 years in jail before he can seek release.
Paul Erskine, 19, was told he would serve a minimum term of 22 years for the murder of Steven Mitchell, 31, and the killing of Harry Reekie, 66.
The pair carried out the killings within 36 hours in Bathgate in September last year.
A judge told them at the High Court in Edinburgh that the cocktail of drink and drugs they had consumed may go some way to explaining their actions, but it in no way excused their crime.
Lord Kinclaven said: "There is no alternative to a life sentence. No other method of dealing with you is appropriate."
The judge told Moran and Erskine: "I have to bear in mind the whole circumstances of this tragic case."
He ordered that the pair be detained in a young offenders' institution.
Erskine's defence counsel, Ian Duguid QC, had earlier told the court the teenager had told a social worker that "he deserves everything that is coming to him".
Moran was previously convicted of murdering Mr Reekie following an attack at his home in Lothian Street, Bathgate, on 16 September and murdering Mr Mitchell at an address in the town's Marmion Road on 16 or 17 September.
Erskine was found guilty of killing the pensioner and murdering Mr Mitchell.
Mr Reekie had tape wrapped around his mouth and wrists and was repeatedly struck with knives as he was threatened and robbed of Â£400, a bank card and phones.
The victim died in January this year as a result of his injuries.
Mr Mitchell was stabbed to death at a nearby house where bloody footprints from Moran and Erskine's new trainers were left behind.
Mr Duguid said: "He really has no explanation apart from the fact he was on a cocktail of drugs and alcohol."
He added that the teenager continued to express his remorse for the families of both men.
Tony Graham, counsel for Moran, said he left his family at the age of 15 "essentially to fend for himself and had had little boundaries in place ever since".
Det Supt Kenny Graham, of Police Scotland, said: "Only Andrew Moran and Paul Erskine know why they chose to carry out such brutal attacks against Harry Reekie and Steven Mitchell.
"They have so far shown absolutely no remorse for their crimes and have refused to explain their motivations, something that the families and those closest to the victims would have appreciated to help them come to terms with their loss.
"In the absence of any explanation, it is reasonable to infer that they are both highly dangerous men who displayed no regard for their victims.
"My thoughts are today with the families and loved ones of Mr Reekie and Mr Mitchell who have been forced to endure tremendous anguish for more than a year."


Islamic State (IS) has released a video appearing to show the beheading of a Kurdish man as a warning to forces fighting the group in northern Iraq.

The video, entitled a Message in Blood, shows several men in orange jumpsuits said to be captured Kurdish fighters.
The victim is then seen kneeling near a mosque in the IS-held city of Mosul before he is beheaded.
The jihadists warn that others will be killed if Kurdish leaders continue to back the US.
Kurdish "peshmerga" fighters from the autonomous Kurdistan Region of northern Iraq have been trying to counter an advance by IS, backed by US air strikes.
Earlier, IS videos from Syria appeared to show the mass killing of Syrian soldiers taken prisoner after their base was overrun.
Activist group the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the soldiers had been captured while trying to flee to Hama province after IS stormed the Tabqa airbase.
The Sunni militant group has declared a "caliphate" across the parts of Syria and Iraq that it controls.
Last week, IS drew worldwide condemnation after releasing a video showing the beheading of US journalist James Foley. It said his death was in retaliation for US air strikes in Iraq, and the jihadist group threatened to kill other US hostages.
Analysis by BBC Arab Affairs Editor Sebastian Usher
Entitled A Message in Blood, the latest video produced by the skilled propagandists of Islamic State is clearly aimed at the Kurds fighting them in northern Iraq.
It parades a group of Kurdish men who are said to be captured peshmerga fighters and who have all been put in orange jumpsuits. That detail is not the only way in which this video is reminiscent of the IS staging of their murder of the US journalist, James Foley.
The beheading of one of the Kurdish hostages is shown filmed from two angles - both to add extra documentary proof and to make it a slicker production. But the backdrop this time is not made as neutral as possible. Instead, the main mosque in Mosul looms behind - a provocation, trying to show that IS control of the city is assured.
The screen is then split showing the hostage and his captors on one side and photos of Kurdish leaders meeting President Obama and his Secretary of State John Kerry on the other.  The jihadists threaten more such killings if the Kurds continue to ally themselves with the US. In a choreography of murder again very similar to the killing of  James Foley, the kneeling man is then beheaded with a knife.
On Thursday, US President Barack Obama said he was sending Secretary of State John Kerry to the Middle East soon to discuss the Syria crisis with regional partners, especially those who adhere to the Sunni faith.
"I'm encouraged so far that countries in the region, countries that don't always agree on many things, increasingly recognise the primacy of the threat that Isil (IS) poses to all of them. And I've asked Secretary Kerry to travel to the region to continue to build the coalition that's needed to meet this threat," he said.
Mr Obama was speaking shortly before convening a meeting of his national security advisers on a range of Pentagon options for confronting IS.
Earlier on Thursday, a video posted online purportedly showed the aftermath of the killings of the Syrian soldiers - a long line of bodies of young men lying face down stripped to their underwear.
"The 250 Shabiha taken captive by the Islamic State from Tabqa in Raqqa have been executed," read the caption, using the name - Shabiha - given by the opposition to militiamen fighting for President Bashar al-Assad.
An earlier video appears to show the same men, also in their underwear, being marched through the desert at gunpoint. They are made to walk and run, with those at the back being kicked and beaten.
Militants shout "Islamic State" and "There is no going back".
Tabqa airbase - near the northern city of Raqqa, an IS stronghold - fell to IS on Sunday after weeks of fierce fighting.
The Observatory said 346 IS fighters and more than 170 members of the security forces were killed in the final battle, which lasted five days.
The head of the Observatory, Rami Abdul Rahman, told the AFP news agency that about 1,400 troops had been stationed at the airbase, 700 of whom managed to escape.
On Tuesday, UN investigators issued a report which said IS militants had committed "mass atrocities" in Syria and had recruited children as fighters.
The report said public killings were a "common spectacle" in areas run by the jihadist group and that local people were forced to watch.
At the same time, the investigators said that Syrian government forces had also committed atrocities by dropping barrel bombs and chlorine gas from helicopters, shelling hospitals and torturing and killing civilians.


While Downing Street insists they "genuinely don't know" if the prime minister will be able to get a deal at today's vital summit, a group of Conservatives, under the auspices of Conservatives for Reform in Europe have already circulated a letter applauding his achievement.

Sixty activists from the group, which is led by the senior MP Nick Herbert, have signed a letter praising Cameron - "for the first time since 1975 a British Prime Minister has returned from a summit with more powers than when they arrived".
That's despite the fact the group claims officially they will support Mr Cameron on condition that the renegotiation is successful.
The letter says "we fully support the deal the PM has negotiated which helps the UK secure a unique status in a reformed Europe" and suggests that the group has made its decision to back him already before the deal is done.
CRE was founded by 36 MPs and was set up to help garner support for the prime minister among Tory backbenchers.
A spokeswoman for the campaign said that "activists were keen to support the prime minister and are waiting for the deal like everyone else".
Here is the full text of the letter:
Dear Sir,
As Conservative activists who deliver leaflets, knock on doors, fundraise, hold office in the Party and represent our party in public elections, we fully support the deal the Prime Minister has negotiated which helps the UK secure a unique status in a reformed Europe.
We appreciate that very few British people approve of everything the EU does and that there is clearly a need for further and continuing reform. However, no one knows what BREXIT would look like and few would wish to risk our economic and national security without being certain of the alternative. We would be safer in a reformed Europe, for example, because we cooperate with our European neighbours on terrorism and crime.
Many Eurosceptics shout the loudest and are determined to disparage whatever deal the Prime Minister achieves. We take a more pragmatic approach. For the first time since 1975, a British Prime Minister has returned from a summit with more powers than when they arrived. In a reformed Europe, the UK would get the best of both worlds.
Yours faithfully,
(Names of 60 members and their constituencies)


Lee Wallace says Rangers will again target winning the Scottish title while respecting the gulf between themselves and Celtic last season.

Rangers finished third, 39 points behind as Celtic retained the title.
And they have already exited the Europa League, beaten in the opening round by Progres Niederkorn of Luxembourg.
"Our mindset won't change as Rangers players and that's to win every single game - and win every competition that we enter," said captain Wallace.
"Obviously we take last season into consideration. We are well aware of the task and we are well aware of how far off it we were."
Rangers begin their second season back in the top flight under Pedro Caixinha, the Portuguese manager who succeeded Mark Warburton in March and has made major changes to his squad.
And Scotland left-back Wallace believes that a better title challenge is a must for the Ibrox side.
"Irrespective of signings, irrespective of the cost, that has to be the aim for us," he said.
"We have to obviously recognise what happened last year and be realistic about things, but it's not going to change our focus as Rangers players.
"We can't settle for any less than that, it has to be the target.
"If we approach every game with that mentality, we will definitely finish off stronger than we did last season."
Wallace agrees that their early European exit has placed added pressure on Caixinha and his side as they prepare to start the league season away to Motherwell on Sunday.
"Absolutely, there is always going to be pressure watching Rangers, even if it's a friendly," he said.
"It just becomes the norm and it's about how to handle that and how to respond to situations like the European exit.
"We have managed to do that. We are feeling good.
"We recognise it's going to be a difficult game, they have some momentum from their League Cup campaign, but we are going to go there and try to win the game."
Wallace believes that friendly wins over Watford and Sheffield Wednesday, plus a draw against Marseille, have boosted confidence.
"We suffered a humiliation in the European campaign, but it was about how we responded to that and, more so in the last 10 days, there's definitely been a bit more positivity generated amongst the players and a bit more belief," he said.
"We are still learning about each other and gelling as a team, but there has certainly been a better end to the pre-season than we started and we are all raring to go next Sunday."


Midfielder John O'Sullivan has re-signed for Accrington Stanley on a six-month loan deal from Championship club Blackburn Rovers.

O'Sullivan, 21, scored four goals, including two on his debut, in a 13-game loan spell with Stanley two seasons ago.
He has also spent time at Southport and Barnsley and was on loan to Rochdale and Bury last season.
O'Sullivan will stay with Accrington until 7 January 2017.
His return to the Wham Stadium comes three days after the arrival of midfielder Chris Eagles and defender Janoi Donacien.
The former Republic of Ireland international O'Sullivan is in line to play in Tuesday's EFL Cup first-round tie at home to Bradford.
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Fabio Capello has resigned as England manager, the Football Association has confirmed.

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Capello quit after a meeting with FA chairman David Bernstein and general secretary Alex Horne at Wembley.
Clearly Fabio Capello's reaction to the FA's decision to remove John Terry as England captain, and his decision to air his frustrations on Italian television, have been the final straw. I was told if Capello was prepared to back down then it probably would have been brushed under the carpet and he would have continued until after Euro 2012. It seems he has gone into the meeting, felt his authority had been undermined and could not continue. It has been a seismic shock for the England team and everybody involved in it.
An FA statement read: "The Football Association can confirm that Fabio Capello has today resigned as England manager."
On Monday, the Italian, 65, publicly challenged the FA's decision to strip John Terry of the captaincy.
The FA's statement continued: "The discussions focused on the FA Board's decision to remove the England team captaincy from John Terry, and Fabio Capello's response through an Italian broadcast interview.
"In a meeting for over an hour, Fabio's resignation was accepted and he will leave the post of England manager with immediate effect."
Bernstein said: "I would like to stress that during [the] meeting and throughout his time as England manager, Fabio has conducted himself in an extremely professional manner.
"With Capello gone, the timing is perfect for England to benefit from the impetus that almost inevitably follows a new appointment and the arrival of fresh ideas and a different voice ahead of this summer."
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"We have accepted Fabio's resignation, agreeing this is the right decision. We would like to thank Fabio for his work with the England team and wish him every success in the future."
A media conference with Bernstein and the Club England management team will take place at Wembley Stadium on Thursday at 1200 GMT.
The FA will not be making any further comment until the media conference.
Wednesday's meeting was the first time Capello had met the FA since their decision to remove the armband from Terry pending the outcome of his court case in July.
Terry, 31, denies a charge of allegedly racially abusing QPR's Anton Ferdinand.
On Sunday, Capello told Italy's state broadcaster RAI he did not believe someone should be punished by sporting authorities before a court had reached a verdict.
"I thought it was right that Terry should keep the captain's armband," said Capello, whose first game in charge was on 6 February 2008, against Switzerland.
"I have spoken to the [FA] chairman and I have said that in my opinion one cannot be punished until it is official and the court - a non-sport court, a civil court - had made a decision to decide if John Terry has done what he is accused of."
FA head of elite development Gareth Southgate suggested Under-21 head coach Stuart Pearce will be in charge for England's friendly against the Netherlands at Wembley on 29 February.
"Stuart Pearce is in the building and with the under-21s," said the former England defender.
"But you have to think for the summer - can you get the person you want for the longer term? Because the leading candidates are with clubs at the minute.
"Harry Redknapp is one of leading candidates but Tottenham will have something to say about that and Daniel Levy is not going to want Harry to leave without a fight, so there's an awful lot to work out in the next few weeks."
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Former England captain Alan Shearer said: "England should be managed by an Englishman and I would go along with Harry Redknapp as the outstanding candidate. He's a genius at motivating players."
"Let's move on and get someone who wants to manage England in a major tournament. Managers come and go and you have to be professional as a player.
"They'll want to put on the white shirt and go out there and play regardless of who's in charge."
Another possible candidate to succeed Capello is West Brom manager Roy Hodgson, who was tipped to replace the Italian after the 2010 World Cup.
However, before the FA made its decision, the vastly experienced Hodgson plumped for an ill-fated spell with Liverpool before moving on to the Hawthorns.
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A research team led by an Aberystwyth University scientist has been awarded £3.7m to combat flatworm infections.

Professor Karl Hoffmann from the university's Institute of Biological, Environmental and Rural Sciences (IBERS) will head up a team from the UK, Germany, France and the USA.
Parasitic flatworm species are responsible for hydatid disease and bilharzia.
The funding was awarded by biomedical research charity The Wellcome Trust.