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Question: No cleaning records have been kept for the accident and emergency department at Scotland's newest children's hospital since it opened in 2015.

The problem was discovered during an unannounced inspection visit to the Royal Hospital for Children in Glasgow.
The inspectors asked questions about procedures after finding dust on patient equipment.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said it would deal immediately with the oversight in its record-keeping system.
The Healthcare Environment Inspectorate (HEI) carried out an unannounced inspection visit to the hospital in September.
While most of the inspection was problem free, issues emerged in the accident and emergency department.
The HEI report states: "During the inspection, we saw some areas that had been cleaned but had debris on the flooring.
"We also saw some cleaned, empty patient rooms which had dust on high level surfaces.
"In the accident and emergency department, we saw dust on high surfaces such as pendant lamp arms, ledges, cupboard tops, and curtain rails."
The report added: "There was no domestic cleaning or domestic cleaning supervision records for the accident and emergency department.
"The deputy facilities manager explained that there had been no recording of this information since the hospital opened.
"We were told that all domestic cleaning records in the hospital were electronic. However, this electronic system had not been put in place in the accident and emergency department."
Claire Sweeney, interim director of quality assurance for Healthcare Improvement Scotland, said: "During the inspection of Royal Hospital for Children, we observed staff adhering to standard infection control precautions while carrying out their duties.
"However, we identified issues around cleanliness in the accident and emergency department.
"The NHS board has drawn up an action plan to address these issues. We will continue to monitor the cleanliness of Royal Hospital for Children at future inspections."
In a statement, the health board said: "We have already taken steps to address the two requirements identified by the inspectors during their visit in September and have put in place increased cleaning and monitoring in the emergency department.
"We are delighted that the inspectors found good compliance in a number of areas including infection prevention and control, hand hygiene and the uniform policy.
"The inspectors also highlighted that more than 95% of the patients, relatives and carers described both the ward environment and patient equipment as clean, including the toys available for the patients to play with during their stay in hospital."

The new campus is built on the site of the old Southern General in Govan in the south west of the city.
It will house a new 1,109-bed adult hospital and a 256-bed children's hospital.
There will also be a two major A&E departments - one for adults and one for children - a maternity hospital and state-of-the-art laboratory services.
Every patient in the general wards in the 14-floor hospital will have their own single room with an en-suite and views out across the campus.
Demolition of the old Southern General surgical block will begin in the summer and be completed by the middle of 2016.
The brand new children's hospital on the South Glasgow site is next door to the adult hospital but it has a separate identity and entrance.
It is a five-storey building with 256 beds and will replace the existing Royal Hospital for Sick Children at Yorkhill in June.
Patients from the old Victoria Infirmary and the nearby Mansionhouse Unit will begin the move to the new hospital in May.
The new Victoria, across the road from the old building, will continue its outpatient and minor injuries functions
Some services from the Western Infirmary, such as renal dialysis, will begin the move to the South Glasgow in April.
The Western Infirmary outpatients and minor injuries unit will move to the Yorkhill site until they move to Gartnavel in 2016.
The plan is to close the old Victoria and the Western Infirmary when the move is complete.
Gartnavel will transfer some services, such as ENT inpatients, to the South Glasgow and it will take in some services from the Western.
The accident and emergency departments at the Victoria and the Western infirmaries will close once the South General move is complete.
After the move is completed there will be two A&Es serving Glasgow - at the South Glasgow and the Royal Infirmary.
The Vale of Leven Hospital, New Stobhill Hospital and the New Victoria will retain a Minor Injury Unit (MIU) for sprains, burns and simple fractures.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde said that it would embark on a massive communication drive across the city to make sure everyone was aware of the changes.
Leaflets will be delivered to every household affected, outlining the changes to A&E provision.
The refurbishment of the Southern General Maternity Unit was completed before construction of the new hospital began.
The hospital is a national centre for certain specialist services for newborn babies and provides state-of-the-art intensive care services.
The opening of the unit enabled maternity services at the former Queen Mother's Hospital at Yorkhill to close.
Glasgow now has two maternity units - the South Glasgow and the Princess Royal at Glasgow Royal Infirmary.


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Question: A man has been charged in connection with the death of a cyclist in a Wrexham crash, say North Wales Police.

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Alan Cronin, 60, from Guilden Sutton, near Chester, was found with serious injuries near Rossett flyover on the A483 Wrexham bypass on Thursday.
Polish national Damian Niepieklo, 22, has been charged with causing death by dangerous driving, failing to stop and failing to report an accident.
He was remanded in custody to appear before magistrates on Monday.
Mr Cronin, died following the collision at Junction 7 of the northbound carriageway at about 14.20 BST.
Ch Insp Darren Wareing repeated an earlier appeal for witnesses, urging anyone with information to get in contact via the 101 line.
In a tribute, the family of Mr Cronin, a member of Chester Triathlon Club, described him as the "best possible dad, husband, brother and partner to have, willing to do anything for anyone".

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It comes after a 24-year-old man suffered stab wounds in an incident at Lon Ceiriog, Prestatyn, on Monday 4 January.
He was treated in hospital but has since been discharged.
The local man was arrested on Monday evening, said North Wales Police.


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Question: One of singer Bryan Ferry's sons is critically ill in hospital following a car crash, the BBC understands.

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Merlin Ferry, 24, is believed to have been cut free by firefighters after a collision near the village of Cound, Shropshire on Monday evening.
West Midlands Ambulance said the trapped man had suffered a head injury plus multiple fractures to his legs, pelvis and left arm.
Merlin's brother Otis thanked fire crews for their efforts on Twitter.
"Thank you for extracting my Brother alive from what looks like a mangled box of tin," he said. "We are all continuing to pray."
A Mercedes, a Volvo Saloon and a Scania lorry were involved in the crash on the A458, a few miles outside Shrewsbury. There was a small fire in the second car, but the driver, a 49-year-old man, was able to escape with just cuts and bruises.
A spokesman for the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham confirmed a 24-year-old called Merlin Ferry was in a "critical" condition.
Wellington Fire Service said the operation to free the man had been "a difficult extraction due to the impact involved".
Bryan Ferry has achieved international success as a solo artist and with his group Roxy Music.
Merlin accompanied his siblings Otis, Isaac and Tara to Buckingham Palace three years ago to see their father receive a CBE.

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Harri Jones, 18, from Wrexham, is at a hospital in Stoke-on-Trent after money was raised to fly him to the UK. He is said to be responding to questions and has moved his arms and legs.
He suffered a fractured skull and cheekbone, and lost sight in one eye following last month's accident.
It was on the first night of his first holiday abroad with friends in Kavos.


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Question: The UKIP assembly group leader's description of Welsh Labour's electoral prospects as a "holocaust" was "unforgivable", a Labour AM has said.

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Neil Hamilton said Labour would "suffer a holocaust" by losing Welsh seats at the next general election, due in 2020.
He added that he was looking forward to Labour's "blood-letting".
Labour AM Joyce Watson urged him to "spend some time thinking about what the word holocaust really means, in particular to Jewish families".
Mr Hamilton was speaking at his first news conference since UKIP won seats at the Welsh Assembly election in May.
He said his party aimed to replace Labour as the main opposition to the Conservatives at a UK level, and that Wales "offers a lot of scope for this".
"With the boundary changes that are going to take place before 2020, Labour are going to suffer a holocaust, particularly in Wales, and I'm looking forward to the blood-letting which the current leadership contest has been the precursor to," he said.
"That's an opportunity for UKIP to take advantage of."
In response, Mid and West Wales Labour AM Joyce Watson said: "Even by Neil Hamilton's standards, this use of language is absolutely unforgivable.
"He should withdraw these remarks, apologise and spend some time thinking about what the word holocaust really means, in particular to Jewish families in Wales."
Mr Hamilton sparked a row with his maiden speech in the assembly in May when he described two senior female AMs as "political concubines" in First Minister Carwyn Jones's "harem".

The Cardiff South and Penarth MP quit after Jeremy Corbyn sacked the party's Europe spokesman Pat McFadden.
Mr Doughty said his colleague was dismissed for his views on Islamic extremism and the Paris terror attacks.
He said national security should transcend "personal score-settling".
Announcing his resignation live on the BBC's Daily Politics programme, Mr Doughty said: "Fundamentally I agree with everything Pat McFadden said about terrorism, national security and about not being seen to develop a narrative that this is somehow the West that's responsible.
"And I have to look at my own conscience in that situation.
"And when an individual has been singled out for a sacking for words that I completely agree with I think it's only the honourable thing for me to do to also tender my resignation."
Mr Doughty also said "lies" were coming from the leader's office about the reasons behind the sacking of Mr McFadden.
Mr Corbyn's close ally, shadow chancellor John McDonnell, has said the sacking was due to "issues about loyalty".
"I think things are being said, that are simply not true," Mr Doughty said.
"One of the reasons I agreed to serve under Jeremy was his comments about 'new politics', about being open, being transparent, about being honest, about being straight-talking and certainly that seemed to be the case for the first weeks and months of his leadership.
"But unfortunately there is a tendency amongst those around him and in his team to be conducting some pretty unpleasant operations against people who've loyally served the party in government and in opposition".
Mr Doughty's resignation sparked a war of words on twitter, with his fellow Welsh Labour MP Paul Flynn.
Newport West MP Mr Flynn tweeted (but later deleted): "Steve 'who?' Doughty resigns as part of Revolt of Unreformed Blairites uses wild divisive language. One Leader. One Party. One Enemy."
He added: "Corbyn-Victory deniers in uber rant. Poor losers in denial on JC's victory. Celebrate departure of lightweights. Better replacements coming."
Mr Doughty responded: "You've known me since I was 10 years old Paul ;) let alone that I am next door constituency to you.
"And you know full well I am hardly a lightweight..."
Earlier, Labour Aberavon MP Stephen Kinnock said the party was "going into uncharted territory" following the reshuffle.
Allies of Mr Corbyn have defended his right to make changes, saying the shadow cabinet had been out of line with the party as a whole on issues such as Syria.


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Question: New Fleetwood Town manager Uwe Rosler says he will urge his League One side to have a top-six mentality and play attacking football.

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The 47-year-old former Leeds, Wigan and Brentford manager replaced Steven Pressley as Fleetwood boss on Saturday.
Rosler took Brentford to a League One play-off final and left shortly before they reached the Championship in 2014.
"When I joined Brentford they were a mid-table team and look where they are today," he told BBC Radio Lancashire.
"I played a major role in that and I think with having the owner so ambitious and committed to the club, we can do similar things here.
"We have to create a top-six mentality and over time when you have that mentality that will give top-six results, and that is ultimately where we want to be in my time here."
The former Manchester City striker and East Germany international also said his side will deploy a direct and forward-thinking style.
"My team will always be high energy with a lot of transitions," he added.
"We will try to be direct but not with long balls; being direct with quick, forward passes and a lot of runs forward and players committed into the box.
"It can be a very attractive way [to play] but the most important thing is that you finish off the good work."

New manager Gary Mills will hope to succeed where Brian Little, Dean Saunders, Andy Morrell and Kevin Wilkin have failed by guiding the club back into the Football League.
Wrexham are about to embark on their eighth season in non-league but with Mills' pedigree at this level, Dragons fans hope it will be their last.
Defeat to North Ferriby United in the FA Trophy final sealed the fate of Kevin Wilkin, sacked for his side's failure to mount a serious promotion challenge rather than the Wembley defeat.  The Dragons finished the season strongly under caretaker boss Carl Darlington but he opted against the role full-time and Wrexham appointed the experienced Gary Mills.
Mills wasted no time in making changes to the squad with experienced heads and Racecourse favourites such as captain Dean Keates and Neil Ashton among those released at the end of last season.
The former Gateshead manager, assisted by former Tottenham player Darren Caskey, has signed 10 players and a further two on loan during the close season. Despite the wholesale changes, the former Nottingham Forest man has been pleased by the new-look squad's progress during pre-season.
Last season's top-scorer Louis Moult has left for Motherwell and the pressure will be on replacement James Gray to score the goals. The presence of centre half Manny Smith - so impressive in his first season at the club - is also a major boost.
Many Wrexham supporters were unhappy with the manner of midfielder Lee Fowler's departure to big-spending Fleetwood Town in 2012. But the 32-year-old Welshman has returned to the Racecourse on a one-year contract and Mills has shown his faith in the former Coventry City and Wales Under-21 player by making him captain.
Fowler has a big void to fill following the departure of former skipper and midfield general Keates.
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Mills knows how to get teams promoted - he guided York City to a play-off final win in 2012 - and the former European Cup winner brings a no-nonsense approach to the job.
It will be interesting to see how the new-look squad takes shape during the opening weeks of the campaign but Wrexham should be among the front-runners.
National League: 4th FA Cup: Second round.
Gary Mills: "I'm always going to feel the expectation but it doesn't affect how I work. I love expectation because it keeps you on your toes. I don't want to be at a club with no expectation - that's easy, we can all do that."
"All I can promise is that I give everything that I've got. Promotion of course is the goal. Do I want to win the league? Yes of course I do - If I don't then I want to finish in the top five, get to Wembley and win it.
"No matter how we get out of this league we've got to get out."
Former Wrexham midfielder and BBC Wales pundit Mickey Thomas: "Gary Mills plays a brand of football that people will enjoy, likes to play the ball on the floor, but the pressure is a little bit more intense than Gateshead.
"It's all about the brand of football that you play but he will have to win football games."


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Question: A burst water pipe in Oxfordshire has caused flooding in a road and left homes without water.

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Thames Water said the burst pipe in Broughton Road, Banbury, left those in the OX16 postcode area without water or with low pressure.
Firefighters worked to stop homes from getting flooded. The flow of water was stopped at about 13:00 BST and supplies have since begun to return to normal.
The road has been closed between Bath Road and Beargarden Road.
It is not yet know why the burst occurred.

The downpours also left several roads in Lowestoft and Carlton Colville under water and near impassable.
Water poured into homes on Aldwyk Way causing serious damage to ground floor and ruining furniture.
Police are advising motorists to drive carefully in places where water has gathered and has still not drained away.
Although conditions have improved, community station Lowestoft Weather said it does not rule out the chance of further showers.
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Question: The Scottish government has ruled out a referendum on the proposed introduction of same-sex marriage.

On Monday, Britain's most senior Roman Catholic cleric, Cardinal Keith O'Brien, urged the Scottish government to hold a public vote on the proposals.
A government spokesman, speaking after a cabinet meeting, said the issue was a matter of conscience, not constitution.
He said a decision on whether to bring forward a bill on same-sex marriage would be made before the end of July.
Members of the cabinet met in Edinburgh to discuss the issue.
After the meeting, the spokesman said: "This is an important issue and it is right that cabinet takes the time to get both the principle and the detail of the decision right.
"During the discussion, recent calls for a referendum on the subject were carefully considered. However, cabinet views this as an issue of conscience not constitution.
"Given that if a bill is brought forward it should in the view of the Scottish government be determined by a free vote, cabinet has concluded that a referendum would not be appropriate.
"Cabinet has now asked a cabinet sub-committee, led by the deputy first minister, to further examine some particular issues of detail before a final decision is reached.
"We remain committed to publishing the consultation responses and our clear decision on the way forward before the end of this month."
Gay rights charity Stonewall Scotland welcomed the decision not to hold a referendum.
Its director, Colin Macfarlane, said :"While we are disappointed that no decision was made today we are pleased that the Scottish government has confirmed that a referendum has been ruled out.
"Ministers have stated that a final decision on a way forward will be at the end of this month, we look forward to that and urge them to stick to their guns and say I do to equal marriage."
Tom French from the Equality Network said: "The government have had seven months to analyse the consultation responses and to deal with the detail. We cannot understand why there is any need for further delay."
The proposals, which would see Scotland become the first part of the UK to introduce the policy, have provoked opposition from some religious groups.
The Catholic Church and Church of Scotland strongly oppose the policy.
Cardinal O'Brien has branded the plans a "grotesque subversion of a universally-accepted human right".
The cardinal, who leads the church in Scotland, previously authorised a plan to raise Â£100,000 through special church collections to support the Scotland For Marriage campaign against same-sex marriage.
The proposed legislation has been backed by a "rainbow coalition" of organisations, including The Equality Network, Amnesty International, Unison and the Humanist Society of Scotland, as well as political parties.
Faith groups, including the United Reformed Church, the Quakers, Buddhists and the Pagan Federation also support the move.
However, the issue also caused a split within the SNP, after a parliamentary motion tabled by party MSP John Mason, stating no person or organisation should be forced to be involved in or to approve of same-sex marriage, led to accusations by some of his colleagues that his actions encouraged discrimination.
Gordon Wilson, a former SNP leader, has also warned plans for same-sex marriage could "alienate" people considering voting for independence in the 2014 referendum.
Same-sex couples in Scotland currently have the option to enter into civil partnerships and the Holyrood government has insisted no part of the religious community would be forced to hold same-sex weddings in churches.
Although civil partnerships in Scotland offer the same legal treatment as marriage in areas such as inheritance, pensions provision, life assurance, child maintenance, next of kin and immigration rights, they are still seen as distinct from marriage.
A man and a woman can opt for a religious or civil marriage ceremony, whereas a same-sex partnership is an exclusively civil procedure.
The UK government, which is consulting on changing the status of civil ceremonies to allow gay and lesbian couples in England and Wales to get married, wants to make the change by 2015.

31 March 2017 Last updated at 15:41 BST
Featuring the triggering of Article 50, the Scottish Parliament approving a call for a second independence referendum and a proposed crackdown on terrorists using social media.


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Question: A soldier has admitted knocking down four of his colleagues with a car outside an army base near Inverness.

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Kristofer Smith pleaded guilty to a charge of careless driving following the incident in Ardersier, near the Fort George base, on 19 January 2015.
The soldiers were out for a morning run when they were hit by Smith's Volkswagen car and injured. One had to be airlifted to hospital for treatment.
The 33-year-old will appear for sentencing in Inverness in September.
Dean Tudor, Craig Smith, Alan Bowe and Alan Murray were all hurt in the crash, which occurred at 09:20 on Ardersier's  High Street.
There were initially fears that the crash may have been a terrorist incident, but this was quickly ruled out by police. Locals speculated that Smith may have been blinded by the low morning sun.
Fort George, an 18th Century artillery fortification that continues to operate as a barracks, is home to the Black Watch (3 Scots) regiment.

Two Squadron RAF Regiment have returned from a six-month tour protecting the Nato airbase at Kandahar.
Aircraft brought the airmen home from Cyprus to Brize Norton before they travelled on to meet their families at their base at RAF Honington.
Their role in Afghanistan was to protect the key Nato airbase in southern Afghanistan from enemy attack.
However during the tour they lost two airmen.
Senior Aircraftman Luke Southgate was killed in February in an explosion north of the airfield.
On the day the airmen returned a short ceremony was held in his home town of Bury St Edmunds and a plaque was unveiled celebrating his life.
His family also planted a tree in his memory.
Last weekend Senior Aircraftman Kinikki Griffiths from One Squadron RAF Regiment was killed in a road accident while on patrol near Camp Bastion in Helmand province.
Described as an "exceptional" member of the regiment, he died just a few weeks before his 21st birthday.


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Question: Ethiopian security forces have killed at least 140 people taking part in mass anti-government demonstrations since November, activists say, according to US-based Human Rights Watch (HRW).

The protests have been sparked by fears that a plan to expand the capital's administrative control into the Oromia region will displace Oromo farmers.
HRW also called for the release of an Oromo politician arrested last month.
The government has accused Oromo protesters of links with terror groups.
Last month, officials said five people and an undisclosed number of security personnel had died in the protests.
Prominent Oromo intellectuals "who they feel have influence over the population" have also been targeted by the government, HRW researcher Felix Horne said in a statement.
Bekele Gerba, deputy chairman of the Oromo Federalist Congress (OFC), was arrested on 23 December, HRW said.
"He was first taken to the notorious Maekalawi prison, where torture and other ill-treatment are routine," it said.
"The 54-year-old foreign language professor was reportedly hospitalised shortly after his arrest but his whereabouts are now unknown, raising concerns of an enforced disappearance."
The OFC is Oromia's largest legally registered political party, but holds no seats in parliament, the rights group said.
Two journalists were also arrested in December - it is not clear on what charges but the country criminalises any reporting considered by the authorities to be an encouragement to terrorism.
Oromia is Ethiopia's largest region, surrounding the capital, Addis Ababa.
The government says other views are being taken into consideration for the "master plan" to integrate parts of Oromia into Addis Ababa.
BBC Africa correspondent Alistair Leithhead says demonstrations are rare in Ethiopia and the current Oromo anger over urban planning is an expression of much older complaints over a lack of political and economic inclusion.
At the last census in 2007, the Oromo made up Ethiopia's biggest ethnic group, at about 25 million people out of a population at the time of nearly 74 million.

The decision means that terror charges have been dropped against all nine of the so-called Zone 9 bloggers, after five were cleared and released in July.
Their case inspired a sustained online campaign for their release by activists in Ethiopia and beyond.
Ethiopia has frequently been criticised for its record on human rights.
The Zone 9 website had carried pieces critical of the government.
Three of those cleared are expected to be freed from custody on Friday, AFP news agency reports.
Befeqadu Hailu, one of the four acquitted of terrorism charges, still faces charges of inciting violence Ethiopian human rights activist Mesfin Negash, who has been in touch with the bloggers' families, told the BBC.
The courtroom was crowded with friends and family, with many crying as charges were dropped, AFP reports.


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Question: A man arrested after being on the run for nearly three years has been charged with child sex offences.

Stephen Carruthers, from Bury, is accused of 18 offences of making indecent photographs of a child and one of failing to surrender to custody.
He was arrested earlier this month after being admitted to a French hospital.
The 43-year-old is due before South Lakeland magistrates in Kendal, Cumbria, later.
Mr Carruthers was originally arrested in March 2014 at an address in Ambleside.
Police said a computer recovered at the scene allegedly contained 5,332 indecent images of children.
After being interviewed he was given bail to re-attend the police station but failed to return.

James Farrelly, 52, denies murdering Martin Hamilton, 53, in Mossside Drive, Blackburn, between 16 April and 17 December 2015.
It is alleged that, while acting with others, Mr Farrelly shot Hamilton in the head and inflicted blunt and sharp force injuries to his head.
He is also charged with hiding the body in woodland near the B7015.
It is also alleged that he removed kitchen units, appliances and flooring from the house in Mosside Drive, and cleaned and attempted to remove blood-staining from the house and from a van.
Farrelly, who is represented by Derek Ogg QC, is also accused of being concerned in the supply of cocaine and heroin between January 2001 and February 2016.
He denies all the charges against him and trial has been set for May.
Prosecutor Alex Prentice QC said: "The Crown position is that this is a fairly complicated case."
Hamilton, from Glasgow, was previously one of Scotland's most wanted men and was nicknamed the Blackhill Butcher, after the housing estate from which he operated..
He was released from prison in September 2014 but went missing in April last year.
He had been on the police's most-wanted list before he was jailed in 2000 over a string of charges including drug dealing, torture, abduction and sodomy.
The trial is expected to last between four and five weeks.


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Question: A report into the standards of Aberdeen Royal Infirmary's general surgery department has said some operations may not have been carried out in the best interests of the patients.

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The report by the Royal College of Surgeons in England was done in 2014.
However, sections of it have only now been released following a freedom of information request.
NHS Grampian said it "provided a springboard" for "positive progress" made over the past year and a half.
The review team looked at 16 sets of clinical records provided by NHS Grampian and concluded that the standard of care was not outside that which might be expected.
In three cases, the procedures selected were approaches not all surgeons would have chosen, though "they were not inappropriate", the report said.
However, four cases involved what the report said "could in retrospect have been seen as questionable decision-making about pursuing further surgical treatment instead of more conservative or palliative care".
The report said, that with the benefit of hindsight, "the surgical treatment of these patients may not have been in their best interests".
The review also highlighted poor communication between teams, and rota issues which meant four consultants were on-call at the same time.
In November 2014, just the recommendations of the Royal College of Surgeons of England report were made public.
These latest sections have been published after a decision by the Scottish Information Commissioner who said additional details should be made available.
Malcolm Wright, chief Executive of NHS Grampian, said: "We are an open and transparent organisation and are committed to upholding the principles of the Freedom of Information Act, but there are occasions however when the release of information could breach the confidentiality of individual patients and staff.
"We take our responsibilities to patients and staff extremely seriously and felt that we had made the best judgements about what could be released.
"However we accept the Scottish Information Commissioner's findings and have acted on these."
He added: "The Royal College report provided a springboard for a great deal of the positive progress we've made over the last year and a half, including addressing concerns about team working, training and accountability.
"We have now seen a transformational change in the general surgery department and I would like to thank everyone who has worked so hard to achieve this."

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An investigation by Professor Sir Brian Jarman shows that average occupancy levels for hospitals in England have climbed to more than 89 per cent and have not gone below the government's recommended average of 85 per cent since 2002.
Meanwhile, the number of beds has more than halved over the last three decades.
In 1987 to 1988, there were 297,364 beds in England NHS hospitals; the figure now stands at 130,404.
However, hospitals have treated many more people than they did back in the late 1980's - admissions have nearly doubled to more than 16 million.
Sir Brian says the declining number of beds has put more pressure on hospitals in England.
He said that doctor shortages had proved important contributory factors in hospital death rates but high occupancy rates were becoming increasingly prominent.
He said: "The factor that is most important in being most strongly associated with the variation of the death rates in hospitals in England, is that the more doctors per bed - that's either junior doctors, senior doctors or total doctors per bed - is associated with a lower adjusted death rate in hospital."
Sir Brian added that occupancy was beginning to come in the variables explaining the variation of death rates in hospitals in England.
Pioneering statistical work by Sir Brian on hospital mortality rates proved key in exposing appalling standards of care by the NHS in mid-Staffordshire.
The scandal was the subject of a public inquiry led by Sir Robert Francis QC.
His damning report in February 2013 made a series of recommendations to improve patient care and encourage whistleblowers in the NHS.
David Bowles, a former NHS Trust chief executive in Lincolnshire is leading a campaign to alert people to risks posed by high occupancy rates.
He claims thousands of patients may have had their rights to safe care jeopardised by hospitals that fail to admit when they are struggling to cope with demand.
Mr Bowles told the BBC that unless patients understood their rights they would suffer.
He said: "The patient needs to understand and be given a proper description of the risks of a hospital.
"If a hospital is seriously over full, you are less likely to get an intensive care bed when you need it; you are less likely to go into coronary care if you need it; you are less likely to have access to diagnostic services when you need it. You may go into the wrong kind of ward for your condition which means your complications are less likely to be picked up or you're more likely to get hospital-acquired infections. Those risks need to be explained to patients."
I spoke to Alan Burt and his wife Delia from the village of Horbling in Lincolnshire about their experiences in March 2012 at their local hospital, Pilgrim Hospital in Boston.
Alan was admitted to the accident and emergency unit after suffering a cardiac arrest. Delia says he had been resuscitated by paramedics but A&E doctors concluded he would not make a recovery and decided to place him in a side room and left him to die.
She added: "If they'd just listened to what I was telling them they'd have known that he wasn't a poor old man that was right at the end of his life and this was his last illness, but nobody would listen. They didn't want to know. As far as they were concerned they'd made up their minds and really they were making the circumstances fit the theory and he was just abandoned.
"And but for the interference of that wonderful nurse practitioner, he would be dead. If she'd been on holiday, which she was the very next week, if her holiday had been a week earlier, Alan would be dead because nobody else would've done anything."
The Trust responsible for the hospital, the United Lincolnshire Hospitals referred to a health ombudsman's inquiry into the case which had found there were 'no issues' in relation to Mr Burt's clinical care.
A spokeswoman added: "However, we do acknowledge we were slow in responding to Mr Burt's complaint, and we would like to apologise for this and any anxiety or frustration that this caused.
"In 2013 we introduced a new complaints system at ULHT. Ex-complainants were involved in designing the complaints process and staff workshops were held exploring their involvement with, and handling of, complaints and we have managed to significantly increase the number of complainants satisfied with the response."
A spokeswoman for the Department of Health acknowledged the NHS was busier than ever but said hospitals were coping well with increased demand.
She added the government was committed to delivering a safer seven-day health service and investing Â£10bn to fund the NHS's own plan to transform services in the future.


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Question: A man has been jailed after a fatal stabbing in a Birmingham street following a traffic accident.

Waseem Raja Azram, 29, admitted violent disorder following the death of Zakir Nawaz, 22, who was found injured in Washwood Heath on 10 September.
Azram, of Ward End Close, Ward End, was jailed for two years. The prosecution at Birmingham Crown Court offered no evidence on a murder charge.
West Midlands Police said they were still looking for Mr Nawaz's killer.

Officers found the victim after they were called to City Walk, near Silverdale Country Park in Salford, at about 14:00 BST on Friday.
The man, who is in his 20s, was taken to hospital for treatment but it is not yet clear how severe his injuries are.
Greater Manchester Police appealed for anyone with information to contact them.
Assaults involving corrosive substances have more than doubled in England since 2012, according to police figures, with the vast majority in London.
In a similar incident on Saturday, a man was injured in a suspected acid attack at a fish and chip shop in a seaside town in Kent.


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Question: Country music stars will perform on the eve of the inauguration of President-elect Donald Trump in Washington.

Toby Keith and Lee Greenwood, as well as Broadway singer Jennifer Holliday, will give a concert on the steps of the famed Lincoln Memorial on Thursday.
Mr Trump will also speak at the event, on the spot where Martin Luther King made his famous I Had A Dream speech to 250,000 people in 1963.
The Republican becomes the 45th president of the US next Friday.
The evening before has been called The Make America Great Again! Welcome Celebration and it will be hosted by actor Jon Voight.
Keith is one of the most famous country music singers of the last two decades.
His song Courtesy of the Red, White and Blue (The Angry American) was a patriotic call to arms after 9/11.
Also performing:
President Barack Obama's inaugurations featured the likes of Beyonce, Bruce Springsteen and U2.
But Mr Trump has said the swearing-in day should be about the people, not the elites.
One of his aides said this week that "soft sensuality" would be a theme.

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The billionaire businessman and former reality TV star has taken charge after a huge inauguration ceremony on Friday.
Leah was there in the capitol Washington DC, Take a look at her roundup of what took place.


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Question: England all-rounder Chris Woakes is among three players to have signed contract extensions with Warwickshire.

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Birmingham-born Woakes, 27, who has been with the club for his whole career, is now tied to Edgbaston until at least the end of the 2019 season.
He has played six Tests, 43 one-day internationals and eight Twenty20 internationals since January 2011.
Wicketkeeper Tim Ambrose, 33, and England Lions fast bowler Chris Wright, 30, have also signed deals, until 2018.
Woakes has been on Warwickshire's book since playing for the club's Under-10s side and Bears director of cricket Dougie Brown is delighted to have secured him on a longer deal.
"Woakesy is a proud Bear and has been one of the leading all-rounders in the country for several years," said Brown.
"We're very fortunate to have him leading the attack in this early part of the season."
Former England wicketkeeper Ambrose continues his long association with Warwickshire, having joined from Sussex at the end of the 2005 season.
Wright took 67 wickets as Warwickshire won the County Championship in 2012 having initially moved to Edgbaston on loan from Essex in 2011.
"In Tim, we have an outstanding and vastly experienced wicketkeeper," Brown added.
"Along with Woakesy, he has won all domestic honours in the game and is the club's proud beneficiary for the 2016 season.
"Wrighty joined us on loan just before the end of the 2011 season, but he soon became a Bear permanently and went on to play a crucial role in our County Championship triumph.
"He is a key member of the bowling attack and we're delighted that he has committed to the club until at least 2018."

Poysden and Mellor, both 25, have committed to the Bears until at least the end of the 2018 season after five Championship games each this summer.
Warwickshire chief executive Neil Snowball said: "Josh and Alex have big futures here at Edgbaston.
"They played important roles in 2016 and proved that they can compete at the highest level of the domestic game."
Poysden, who was already tied to Edgbaston to the end of 2017, has worked with the England Lions at the National Cricket Centre in Loughborough this autumn and is currently with the Lions squad at their training camp in Dubai.
He has made 16 one-day and 19 T20 appearances for the Bears since initially joining on trial after leaving Cambridge University ahead of the 2014 season.
He also made a late-season breakthrough in the County Championship this summer, taking 15 wickets in his five appearances, including a career-best 5-53 against champions Middlesex at Edgbaston.
Former Staffordshire player Mellor, who first joined the Bears at the end of the 2015 season on a one-year deal, has now signed a new two-year contract.
Mellor, whose late-season Championship appearances came as cover for the injured Tim Ambrose, has also played three limited-overs games.
Warwickshire are still without a director of cricket following the departure of Dougie Brown in October.
They have been strongly linked with a return to Edgbaston for former Bears boss Ashley Giles, who is still contracted to his current county Lancashire for another year.
BBC Sport understands that negotiations remain ongoing with Lancashire over Giles, who still lives in the Midlands.
Chief executive Neil Snowball reiterated last week that they would like to make an appointment before Christmas.


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Question: Arriving at the Hyatt Century City Plaza hotel, or rather the massive tent that had been erected just outside it, all that could be heard was the tell-tale thump-thump-thump of the biggest viral hit the internet has ever known - Gangnam Style.

Inside the venue, row after row of empty seats which had been laid out to line a catwalk and small stage.
Empty because right there, on the catwalk, was the strangest mix of dancers you're ever likely to see - Super Mario. Wonder Woman, The Doctor and dozens more. All up there. Gangnam Styling. Thump-thump-thump.
It was the climactic point of LA Cosplay Con, the first of what the organisers hope will be an annual gathering of "cosplayers" - people who dress up like characters from, mostly, video games and comics.
Los Angeles is a fitting place to hold an event like this, as it was in this city where the term cosplay - a portmanteau of costume and play - was apparently coined back in the 80s.
It's a hobby known to some as one of those typically eccentric Japanese pastimes that "normal" people just can't fathom, but in reality, its popularity is sweeping the world. For one day in sunny California, a slice of that diversity had come together.
"This is basically where a bunch of kids, who never outgrew the dressing-up phase of our lives, now spend a lot more time and money than we probably should into these costumes," explained Kevin, who'd come as a cosplay classic, Super Mario - a get-up slightly spoiled, if we're to be picky, by his thick beard - he'd opted not to shave into Mario's trademark 'tache. So close.
"It's about embodying the character that you love so dearly," he said, through the beard.
"This is a chance to come and see other people who do the same thing and not be judged - in fact, you get praised."
Praised indeed. As part of the event, prizes were given out for the best costumes.
The winner this year was a man who had come dressed as Black Panther. To be clear, that's Black Panther from Marvel Comics - not to be confused with the Black Panther movement of the 1960s and 70s.
On its website, Marvel Comics explained that Black Panther - widely regarded as the first mainstream black comic-book hero - is a "brilliant tactician, strategist, scientist, tracker and a master of all forms of unarmed combat whose unique hybrid fighting style incorporates acrobatics and aspects of animal mimicry".
Impressive. Here, Black Panther is being ably represented by Shawn - a bus driver.
"In the future I can see cosplay becoming really big," he said.
"It will be something you see a lot more - people enjoying themselves like this."
It's hard to disagree when surrounded by people of the same mind as Shawn. To an outsider, cosplaying sits at the very edge of the nerd spectrum, the most public display of geekiness imaginable. But here, it does look fun.
Less fun, at least some of the people here would argue, was what was happening just down the road during that very same week: E3, the Electronic Entertainment Expo.
It's the Western world's biggest video games show. And while there are lots of dressed-up people at E3, the two groups could not be more different.
"The booth babes," said Shawn, who has been to E3, but doesn't make a habit of it.
"Some of them may be really interested in the character they dress up as... but my experience is that they're there just to get paid.
"The big difference is the heart. The heart you get into that character versus someone who is just there getting paid.
"It takes a lot of heart, a lot of courage."
The criticism of booth babes - on these pages and elsewhere - is that it's an exercise in skin-flashing to pull in businessmen. If the quality of a product doesn't sell it, maybe the tightness of the hotpants will.
But it isn't the bare flesh that cosplayers disapprove of, according to Becky Young, one of the organisers of LA Cosplay Con, and a prolific and well-known cosplayer (if you're into that sort of thing).
"A lot of people criticise the tiny clothes in our culture as well," she said, while dressed as Osgood, a character who has appeared in just one episode of Doctor Who.
"That's because the artists make characters that don't have many clothes," she reasoned.
So what's the difference?
"There's a little more artistry and passion in cosplay which is kind of what makes it so exciting. The people here make their clothing from scratch, or they go out and modify clothing that's out there."
For a competition that is, in one form or other, about looks - the atmosphere is overwhelmingly welcoming.
These are nice people, keen to demonstrate to an outsider that cosplaying is a hobby worth having, but that no, "baffled British journalist" was not a passable cosplay attempt.
It goes beyond dressing up. The people here feel their community - cosplayers and gamers - sometimes come in for the wrong kind of attention.
It's not just the perception of cosplayers, they argued, but gamers as a whole. Blaming violent games for mass shootings is a safer political bet, one attendee suggested, than blaming US gun laws.
"They had a time when they targeted film, then they targeted music, now it's video games," said Heather Ellertson, LA Cosplay Con's organiser, and vice-president of the Entertainment Consumers Association (ECA),
Her group was set up to represent what they say are the rights of gamers - principally, a right to not be misunderstood and used as a scapegoat.
"We wanted to give our members, this group, an opportunity to have their voice heard."
And it's a voice worth hearing, because despite the fierce weaponry on show here - a home-made axe, for instance - you'd be hard-pushed to find an event in this city that came close to being as welcoming and inclusive as this. So Gangnam on, fearless cosplayers. Gangnam on.
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This isn’t a scientific list. It's certainly not a comprehensive one. I am the sole judge of what can be considered list-worthy, using criteria as fluid as the rules of Calvinball.
That said, it’s not a complete free-for-all. To keep things focused, last year I added a rule: nothing miserable should make the list.
Now I’m adding two more. Firstly, nothing related to Brexit or the US election.
You’re welcome.
Secondly, no virals relating to dead celebrities (with one hairy exception). It’s been a tough year on that front, and other lists will reflect that with far more grace than this annual digest of internet buffoonery.
When compiling last year's stand-out virals and memes, I came to the conclusion that it had been a pretty bad 12 months for the internet - a time when the true reach of trolling and cyber-attacks was starting to become clear.
This time around, it's been a pretty terrible year offline. Indeed, if you search for what went "viral” in 2016, Google’s top result is “Zika.”
So, with that smack of the perspective stick, here is 2016 in memes and virals - a chance to enjoy the internet’s ability to share a global in-joke.
1 January had us off to a flier.
Here’s how it happened: It was past midnight on New Year’s Eve and photographer Joel Goodman was in Manchester looking to capture scenes of people ringing in 2016.
Goodman captured the perfect picture. On the bottom right of the frame, two police officers restrain a man lying on the floor, while a woman helplessly stands nearby, peering in.
On the left of the frame, we have the almost romantic sight of a man in a blue suit sprawled across the road, grasping a bottle of beer he definitely doesn’t need.
And almost as if we were in a Shakespearean round, we can see some of the audience, clutching kebabs and staring.
Some called it a shocking sign of drinking culture going too far on New Year’s Eve. Others called it just another night in Manchester.
My colleague Roland Hughes tweeted out the image to a wider audience, giving a boost to its notoriety. Why was it so popular? “People really, really like to laugh at other people,” he said.
Virginia McLaurin, 106, was invited to the White House as part of an event celebrating black history, and her energetic embrace of the Obamas became an infectious celebration of life itself.
She’s lived through two world wars and the US civil rights movement. And so when she said "I thought I would never live to get in the White House,” you know she really meant it.
This month also unveiled a craze I’m not going to pretend to understand called "Damn, Daniel.” If anyone can explain it to me in the comments section, I’d be grateful.
The Hydraulic Press Channel is a series of videos on YouTube showing things getting squashed by a hydraulic press.
It is a winning formula, but one that didn’t immediately hit the big time.
Finnish factory owner Lauri Vuohensilta  had been posting the videos since October 2015, but it didn't take off until March this year. A video of Vuohensilta trying to fold a piece of paper more than seven times rose to the top of Reddit. Now, the Hydraulic Press Channel is a regular squishy treat.
“Tyrants have crushed the people’s will,” cried the Guardian's Stuart Heritage. And he was quite right too.
When the good British public was asked to name a polar-research vessel, the overwhelming consensus was for it to be called Boaty McBoatface.
Sadly, it wasn’t to be. Science Minister Jo Johnson had 2016’s biggest sense of humour failure and decided it should instead be named after Sir David Attenborough.
Let’s just say it wouldn’t be the last time that the popular vote meant little when deciding the will of a nation in 2016.
May was the month in which 2016’s viral legacy was secured.
I’ll start with Candace Payne, the 37-year-old Texas mother who bought a Chewbacca mask from Kohl’s, a US retail chain.
She posted a video using Facebook's only recently launched live service where she howled with laughter while showing off the key "feature" of the mask - the Chewbacca growl. Excellent. Her endearing show of delight has since clocked up 164m views.
She’s now set to start a new job as a video blogger for American network TLC.
Also in May, Mike Senatore.
In a short clip, the high school student stands on a stage in front of more than a hundred of his peers. He struts up to a table and, just as the music dramatically cuts, he flips a bottle of water which lands upright. The crowd goes wild.
In the coming months, water bottle flipping would take the world by storm - just ask any school teacher and they’ll tell you about the thud-thud-thud of bottles flying around their classrooms. Still, it’s pretty harmless, and as someone who spent an embarrassing amount of money on pogs as a boy, it’s good to see something so cheap and cheerful keeping kids occupied.
And now, a moment of silence, please, for Harambe. The 17-year-old western lowland gorilla was shot as a precaution after a small child fell into his enclosure.
That event caused a great amount of debate - which I won’t go into here - but the high-profile, tragic nature of Harambe's death mobilised a corner of the internet determined not to let his life be forgotten.
England weren’t in 2016’s European Championship (at least that’s how I’ve decided to remember it), and so it was left to the Welsh and the Irish to bring us any hope.
And it was the Irish fans - from both Northern Ireland and the Republic - that behaved as such good sports during the competition, the city of Paris gave them an award for "exemplary sportsmanship."
This includes things like tidying up after themselves, singing a lullaby, and serenading a French model in the street.
Not so much a viral hit, granted, but a movement that saw millions of people get out of their seats and take a walk to the nearest park or beach in search of Pokemon. Or, in some cases, a cliff edge or top-security military base.
Nintendo’s share price surged as the game caught on in popularity - but as it turns out, Pokemon Go was as fleeting as it was brilliant.
By summer’s end, very few people were hunting the little critters, and a December update did little to reignite the craze.
It’s time for the Olympics! And while the International Olympic Committee (IOC) declared war on the internet by banning just about any unauthorised mention of anything slightly Olympicy, that didn’t stop some memorable memes taking hold.
It was the swimmers that captured our hearts. First it was Michael Phelps looking extremely angry, and then it was China’s Fu Yuanhui looking extremely delighted - especially after she was told she had won a medal by a TV interviewer.
Then there was the singing.
Later in this list we’ll look at the success of James Corden’s carpool karaoke, but it’s Ted McDermott who took the sing-a-long limelight in August, landing himself a record deal in the process.
"I have a pennnn, I have an apple…. UH! … apple pennnn!"
I’ll have whatever he’s on, as they say.
If you could bottle up the Mad Asian pop music formula and sell it you’d be very rich indeed. This year’s unexpected hit was Pen Pineapple Apple Pen - PPAP - which came from 40-year-old Japanese entertainer Kazuhiko Kosaka, performing as DJ Piko Taro.
But, while it had all the ingredients of a viral smash, it never did reach the heights of Gangnam Style - partly due to it not being very popular in Japan itself.
Also in September, grateful grandad Ted Thorne got a pair of light-up shoes. “Get outta town!” he screams, in one of the year’s great “had to be there” moments which, thanks to social media, we all were.
The internet loves a good challenge, be it ice buckets or wearing no make-up.
This year’s effort was particularly creative. The Mannequin Challenge (which had it been started in the UK, we’d have surely named it the Dummy Challenge…) requires a roomful of people to stand very still as a person weaves in and out with a phone, filming the, err, lack of action.
According to Know Your Meme, the version that started it all was from a high school in Florida. A notable effort included one by NBA champions, the Cleveland Cavaliers, at the White House.
It was a slow year for new memes, but November brought a cracker in the form of Evil Kermit.
The image of the hooded Kermit came from Muppets Most Wanted, a mostly forgettable musical from 2014. But once repurposed into a meme, it was used as a light-hearted way to express what your inner demons might say to you.
Sticking with the animal theme, another memorable meme was inspired by the incredible footage aired by Planet Earth showing a heroic iguana escaping snake after snake even when it looked like the game was up. The clip was remixed with a variety of music.
The world changed in November. No doubt about that. And so with much of the internet failing to see the funny side, it was down to the professionals to keep things upbeat in December.
Step forward James Corden. It would have been easy to pick Corden in almost any month this year, such was the frequency at which he took the internet by storm with Carpool Karaoke.
But I’ll pick December, as it was during this month that the Late Late Show team posted the ultimate Christmas mash-up.
The montage of some of the music world's biggest stars singing along to the Christmas song to rule them all, Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You, quickly became viewing gold.
So that’s it for another year. Not a cracker, I’m sure you’ll agree - but like that episode of Breaking Bad where they try to swat a fly for an hour, 2016 was hopefully just a necessary gear-change that was worth enduring just see what 2017 will throw up.
What stood out the most over these past 12 months? For me, it would have to be Chewbacca Mom. Moments like that, broadcast live, are extremely hard to manufacture. And so while advertisers have just about cracked how to make a video go viral, using live video brings virality back to the people - which is just how it should be.
Here’s to 2017!
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Question: The date has been set for the roll-out of the European Union's multi-billion-euro Earth observation project.

Copernicus will fly a constellation of satellites known as the Sentinels to take a continuous "health check" on the planet and to acquire data that can help inform and enforce EU policies.
It has been announced that the first spacecraft in the series will go into orbit, most likely, in early April.
Sentinel 1a will use radar to map the surface of the Earth.
Its information will find myriad uses, from monitoring European coastal waters for oil spills to investigating subsidence in cities.
A key role also will be to provide rapid damage maps to enable emergency services and aid agencies to respond to natural disasters such as earthquakes and severe flooding events.
Sentinel 1a is undergoing final testing at prime contractor Thales Alenia Space, at its facility in Cannes, France.
Shortly, it will be transferred to Turin, Italy, where it will take an Antonov transport plane to the Guianese spaceport in South America.
There it will be fuelled and attached to its Soyuz rocket, ready for an ascent no earlier than 28 March.
"We're making every effort to meet this date, but it's tight," said European Space Agency (Esa) director general, Jean-Jacques Dordain.
"The industrial teams are working double shifts, pretty much seven days a week," he told BBC News. 1 April is his anticipated launch date.
Copernicus is one of two flagship EU space projects, the other being the Galileo satellite-navigation system.
European states have so far committed some 7.5bn euros (Â£6.2bn; $10.2bn) to the end of the decade to build and operate Copernicus.
As such, it represents the biggest civilian Earth-observation project ever conceived, says Josef Aschbacher, the head of Esa's Copernicus office.
"Typically in Europe, we're always looking across the Atlantic and if we see something we like, we build a smaller version of it here. But something like Copernicus doesn't exist anywhere else in the world, and that's why our American and other international partners are extremely interested in collaborating."
Satellites are at their most powerful when their data is continuous and unbroken in time. To that end, the vision for Copernicus is that becomes an open-ended mission of overlapping satellites.
A Sentinel 1b is already in production, with early discussions already taking place on the procurement of the 1c and 1d models.
Likewise, the first satellites in the Sentinel 2 and 3 series are well advanced. These will carry instruments focused on changes that occur over time in land cover and ocean behaviour, and will launch next year.
Atmospheric sensors known as Sentinel 4 and 5 will go up later this decade. Sentinel 6 will continue the work of a current satellite that measures the height and shape of ocean surfaces.
The EU does not have any technical expertise of its own to develop such a programme and so has engaged Esa to design and commission Copernicus on its behalf.
The Sentinels will produce prodigious volumes of data - all of it free and open. This has required not only considerable investment in computer storage and processing capability on the ground, but a new fast-link technology for bringing the satellites' information down to Earth.
Whereas current Earth observation satellites use radio transmitters to downlink data when they pass over ground stations, the Sentinels will instead fire their data via a laser to a telecommunications satellite much higher in the sky before it is then passed to Earth.
The laser relay will eventually permit two-gigabit-per-second connections. Sentinel 1a's task will be to fully demonstrate this technology before its use becomes routine on the later spacecraft.
"Sentinel 1 will be producing 600GB per orbit which means something like 2.5 terabytes per day," said Ramon Torres, Esa's Sentinel 1 project manager. "This is raw data.  In the case of [radar], when we process this we end up multiplying by a factor of five. This is why we are building a monster of a ground segment."
Although led by TAS (Italy), the construction of Sentinel 1a has involved the participation of many companies across Europe. Major subcontractors have included Ruag (Switzerland), which built the satellite's basic structure, or chassis, and Airbus (formerly Astrium), which developed the radar instrument in its German division and the associated electronics in its UK division.
The follow-on model is making steady progress, says Claudio Bruno of TAS. "The date of shipment of Sentinel 1b from Cannes will be November 2015."
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Question: Intensive whiplash treatment is no better than standard care, a study suggests.

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The study, in the Lancet looked at the treatment of more than 2,700 people with mild to moderate whiplash.
No additional benefits were seen in those who had more intensive care - which included suggesting a rapid return to normal activities.
A Canadian expert said the study showed the lack of benefit from "unnecessary treatments".
Whiplash injuries cost the UK economy about Â£3.1bn a year, mainly due to the expense of treating those with chronic symptoms (between 30-50%) and their subsequent need to take time off work.
Long-term problems can include pain from even the smallest movement, difficulty sleeping and even being unable to work.
Compensation claims for whiplash injury have risen, with about 1,500 made every day in the UK, even though there has been a fall of about 20% in road accidents since 2006.
Earlier this year, the government promised to take action to reduce the number of claims.
There has been debate since the 1980s about how best to deal with whiplash injury, but little research to support any specific approach.
Some researchers have suggested that training A&E staff to provide more intensive treatment - with more positive messages about recovery and specific advice on beneficial exercises as well as advising an early return to work and normal activities - could help people recover more quickly.
The University of Warwick researchers compared this "active management" approach, with the standard care - general advice to exercise and advice sheets.
Patients from 12 NHS hospitals across the UK were followed up for a year. But the researchers found no difference in how those with the more intensive care fared with those who had the usual treatment.
Those whose symptoms persisted for more than three weeks were also invited to take part in a physiotherapy trial.
The 599 patients who participated were randomly assigned to receive either a single advice session with a physiotherapist or a package of up to six physio sessions.
But it was found that having the longer course did not offer any major benefit and, while it appeared people who had more physio recovered more quickly initially, there was no difference between the groups at the eight or 12-month mark.
Prof Sarah Lamb, who led the study, said: "Our findings suggest that that more enhanced forms of treatment that include positive messages about recovery, exercise, and early return to normal activities as well as pain management, do not speed recovery.
"What is more, although additional physiotherapy, beyond a single advice session, did offer a modest benefit, it was not cost-effective."
She added: "I think it's clear from this that the NHS shouldn't be involved in providing people with a long course of physio."
Writing in the Lancet, Robert Ferrari, from the University of Alberta in Canada, said: "The challenge now is to change societal expectations about whiplash injury.
"Legislative changes could reduce the extent to which expectations can be met - less contact with lawyers, insurers, and the treatment industry could reduce the encouragement of these expectations and the behaviour that follows.
"Not prescribing unnecessary treatment might also help to change beliefs about the nature of the injury, and thus studies like that of Lamb and colleagues are needed.
"At the very least, to reduce health-care costs, Lamb and colleagues have shown that the emergency departments are providing evidence-based and cost-effective treatment when they do less, not more."

The largest trial to date suggests the drug does not improve recovery time or provide greater pain relief than a placebo.
The study questions whether paracetamol should remain a first-choice drug on most national guidelines.
But experts caution anyone considering a change of medication should seek medical advice.
About 26 million people suffer from lower back pain each year in the UK, and it remains a leading cause of disability worldwide.
Researchers studied more than 1,650 people across several primary care centres in Australia, who had experienced back pain for six weeks or less.
Paracetamol did not reduce the intensity of the pain, nor did it improve sleep quality. And scientists found there was no difference in recovery time for all three groups - an average of 17 days.
Lead author Dr Christopher Williams, from the University of Sydney, said: "The results suggest we need to reconsider the universal recommendation to provide paracetamol as a first-line treatment."
The researchers say the mechanisms behind lower back pain may differ to those in pain felt in other conditions such as headaches, toothaches and post-surgery discomfort - where there is evidence that paracetamol can provide relief.
And as people in the trial recovered more quickly than those in some previous studies, they suggest the advice and reassurance provided during their trial may be more effective than medication.
Dr Andrew Moore, a senior researcher at the Churchill Hospital, Oxford, who was not involved in the research, told the BBC: "Paracetamol does not work for every type of pain, nor does it work for every person.
"There has been evidence emerging for some time that paracetamol does not benefit most people with chronic back pain for example.
"And I'm willing to bet in 10 years' time national guidelines will have changed."
However, the researchers were unsure what to recommend instead due the side-effects of some anti-inflammatory pain killers and say people should discuss their options with their doctor.
Prof Roger Knaggs of the British Pain Society, told the BBC: "Despite how common paracetamol use is, this is a question that hasn't been studied in such a rigorous way before.
"For people who feel no benefit, there are alternative strategies. They should speak to their pharmacists or doctors and discuss any side-effects of other medication."
Prof Christine Lin, an author on the study, said: "Other ways to ease back pain include remaining as active as possible and avoiding bed rest."


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Question: Liverpool have signed defender Ragnar Klavan on a three-year deal for 5m euros (£4.2m) plus add-ons from German club Augsburg.

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The Estonia captain, 30, has 112 caps for his country and made more than 100 times for Augsburg after arriving from Dutch club AZ in 2012.
He is the Reds' fifth summer signing.
"It's been a dream of mine for 22 years to come to the Premier League and be a part of this amazing club," he told the Liverpool's official website.
"The Premier League is the most attractive league in the world and you always have amazing players here. This is the home of football."
Liverpool boss Jurgen Klopp had wanted to strengthen his central defensive options after Kolo Toure was released and Martin Skrtel sold to Fenerbahce.
Frenchman Mamadou Sakho is also expected to miss the start of the season with an Achilles tendon injury.
Klopp has already signed Mainz goalkeeper Loris Karius, Schalke centre-back Joel Matip, Red Star Belgrade midfielder Marko Grujic and Southampton forward Sadio Mane this summer.

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Ghana forward Dwamena, 21, has agreed personal terms, with the move subject to a medical, a work permit and international clearance.
Brighton had an £8m bid for Dwamena rejected with reports saying FC Zurich wanted 15m euros (£13.7m).
The newly promoted Seagulls have lost both of their Premier League games and are yet to score a goal this season.
On Sunday, Brighton broke their transfer record for the third time this summer by completing a move for Colombia winger Jose Izquierdo from Club Brugge in a £13.5m deal.
Chris Hughton's side have also signed midfielder Davy Propper from PSV Eindhoven for about £6m, goalkeeper Mathew Ryan for a reported £5m from Valencia and winger Soufyan Ahannach from Dutch second-tier side Almere City for an undisclosed fee.


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Question: One of the few remaining survivors of a German prisoner of war camp immortalised in the film The Great Escape has died.

Frank Stone, who died aged 91, was taken to Stalag Luft III in Zagan after his bomber crashed in Germany in 1940.
The 18-year-old RAF gunner was housed in hut 104, home to 76 airmen who attempted escape via a tunnel in 1944.
However, the alarm was raised before Mr Stone, who had helped dispose of soil from the tunnel, could join them.
During an interview with the BBC in 2009, Mr Stone, of Hathersage, Derbyshire, said the atmosphere on the night of the escape had been "electric".
"It was all very tense - but at 5 o'clock, a shot rang out and we knew they had been discovered."
Of the 76 who made their break for freedom using the tunnel, known as Harry, 50 were subsequently shot after being recaptured and only three men managed to get away successfully.
Mr Stone said: "It was very sad and we were advised not to make any further attempts to escape."
He was finally freed towards the end of the war.
His widow, Jane, said: "He gave lots of talks about the escape and always said he was doing it in memory of those 50.
"Frank could never understand why people where so interested in him but they were. We often had to put extra talks on so more people could come."
Stalag Luft III, which was 100 miles south-east of Berlin, held about 10,000 RAF crew at the height of its occupation.
In 1947, 18 soldiers who shot those who were recaptured were put before a military tribunal in Hamburg.
Thirteen of them were executed, while the rest received long prison sentences.
The story of the escape was made into a film in 1963, starring Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and Donald Pleasence.

Slocombe shot 80 films, from classic Ealing comedies such as The Lavender Hill Mob and Kind Hearts and Coronets, to three Indiana Jones adventures.
In 1939 he filmed some of the earliest fighting of World War Two in Poland.
Indiana Jones director Steven Spielberg said Slocombe - who won Baftas for the Great Gatsby, The Servant, and Julia - "loved the action of filmmaking".
He said the cinematographer was "a great collaborator and a beautiful human being".
"Dougie Slocombe was facile, enthusiastic, and loved the action of filmmaking. Harrison Ford was Indiana Jones in front of the camera, but with his whip-smart crew, Dougie was my behind the scenes hero for the first three Indy movies," Spielberg added.
Slocombe other work included The Italian Job and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Among his own favourites was Kind Hearts and Coronets, the Ealing Studios classic of 1949, starring Alec Guinness and Joan Greenwood.
A decade earlier, as a young newsreel cameraman, London-born Slocombe had shot parts of the Nazi invasion of Poland.
The quality of that footage, which was used in the documentary Lights Out in Europe, persuaded Ealing to employ him.
Steven Spielberg chose Slocombe, then nearing 70, to shoot Harrison Ford in Raiders of the Lost Ark and then two further Indiana Jones films in the 1980s.
Slocombe was nominated for an Oscar on three occasions, including for Raiders, and was given a lifetime achievement award by the British Society of Cinematographers in 1996. He was made an OBE in the New Year Honours list in 2008 for services to the film industry.
With Dougie Slocombe's passing at 103 we've lost a link to several eras of Britain's cinematic history.  His typically humane account of how as a news cameraman he escaped from wartime Poland by horse and trap and then by train would make a film in itself.   He became, as he said, 'last man standing' of the great craftsmen who helped Michael Balcon turn Ealing Studios into a force to be reckoned with.  Of the films he shot there he most loved the dark humour of Kind Hearts and Coronets - but he told me he was also proud of how Hue and Cry (1947) found black and white beauty in bombed-out London post-war.   When Ealing closed, he went on to an extraordinary array of 1960s and 70s films: from The Servant (again, London in gorgeous monochrome) to the explosively colourful Jesus Christ Superstar in 1973.
Four years later, Steven Spielberg drafted him in to film scenes for Close Encounters of the Third Kind: they got on so well that he asked Dougie to be cinematographer on the first of three Indiana Jones movies.  Dougie was already 70 when he started the job.  I didn't know him until he was 100 and almost blind, but in the long conversations I had with him, his memory remained pin-sharp.  The amiability and intelligence which helped make him one of the world's great cameramen were still there.  His energy amazed.  When he was 102, I telephoned to ask if I could come round the next day to interview him about an aspect of the Ealing years.  Dougie said he'd be delighted.  But it would have to be in the morning because in the afternoon he was booked in to record a five-hour TV interview - in French.
His other films included Whisky Galore, The Man in the White Suit, Rollerball and Never Say Never Again.
Speaking to the BBC last year, Slocombe recalled working under the Ealing Studio mogul, Sir Michael Balcon, as well as filming on location in a city still scarred by bomb damage.
"I think I'm the last man standing," he said. "All the major technicians and the producers and directors are gone - and that famous repertory company of actors and actresses."
Slocombe's daughter said he died in hospital in London.