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Question: A row has broken out between Theresa May and Surrey's Police and Crime Commissioner after she suggested he had given PCCs a "bad name".

Last month the Home Secretary criticised Kevin Hurley for "attacking" the leadership of Lynne Owens, the new head of the National Crime Agency.
Mr Hurley has written to Mrs May three times demanding an apology for "totally untrue" and "damaging" comments.
The Home Secretary said she disagreed with his interpretation of her remarks.
The correspondence - obtained by BBC News under the Freedom of Information Act - demonstrates the independent PCC's anger over the issue and how strained his relationship with Mrs May has become.
In his first letter to her, on 11 February, Mr Hurley said: "As a consequence of the very grave allegations made... and the extensive coverage in the media... it is essential that you now publish a full and unqualified apology to me."
In the Home Secretary's reply, 12 days later, she wrote: "I am sorry that you have chosen to take issue with a small section of my speech," adding: "I strongly disagree with your characterisation of my comments."
Mrs May said Mr Hurley's comments about the appointment of Ms Owens "helped to fan the flames of the media's reporting of this issue".
Surrey's PCC sent a further letter to the Home Secretary calling again for an apology, but her reply stated she had "nothing further to add".
Mr Hurley wrote a third time, last week, and again Mrs May responded by saying she had nothing more to add on the issue.

Former Army major and Surrey County Council chairman David Munro took 100,122 votes including second-preferences.
Mr Hurley, who was standing for re-election as an independent, came second with 57,681 votes.
Counting went into a second round, after Mr Munro led the first round with 35.3%.
He said: "I am delighted in the confidence shown me by Surrey residents and promise to serve them to the best of my ability for the next four years.
"I am particularly looking forward to working with the chief constable and all ranks and staff of Surrey Police in our joint enterprise of serving everyone in Surrey."
Kevin Hurley, outgoing PCC, said: "In my day as a police officer, we used to say 'the public gets the police force they deserve' and in this case, they will get the police force with the budget that they voted for."
Mr Munro campaigned to give Surrey Police a "fresh start" after the force was rated inadequate at protecting vulnerable victims.
He plans to stand down as a county councillor in Farnham.
BBC Surrey political reporter Jack Fiehn said one of Mr Munro's first jobs would be to appoint a permanent chief constable, after Lynn Owens left last year to head the National Crime Agency.
Mr Hurley said in February he had considered seeking her dismissal after inspectors raised concerns about public protection and child safeguarding in Surrey.
During the election campaign, Mr Hurley said he wanted to "batter and break the legs" of a man convicted of a stabbing - comments attacked as "vile" and "irresponsible" by Mr Munro.
Candidates who stood in Surrey are listed alphabetically by surname below. BBC News App users: tap here to see the results.


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Question: Manaf Tlas, a Syrian general, has deserted the regime of President Bashar al-Assad and left the country gripped by continuing unrest.

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Brig Gen Tlas, said to be in his mid-40s, is a member of Syria's most powerful Sunni family, which has given its support to the Assad's Alawite clan for decades.
The general's father, Mustafa Tlas, was Syria's longest serving defence minister, who helped to ensure Mr Assad's succession to the presidency in 2000 following the death of his father.
As a young man, Gen Tlas also attended military training with President Assad.
So, naturally, he was a member of Mr Assad's so-called inner circle, serving as commander of an elite Republican Guard unit.
The general - together with his wife - was also seen as a leading figure on the Damascus social scene, entertaining foreign envoys, artists and the media.
But sources say he has become increasingly frustrated in recent months over the violent crackdown by the security forces on protesters.
He was reportedly under a form of home arrest since May 2011, following his meeting with the opposition to try to start a political dialogue and also because of his opposition to the clampdown.
The current regime, he once reportedly said, was taking the country to hell.
Most of Syria's leaders are Alawite, but Gen Tlas is a Sunni Muslim, and his desertion may encourage other Sunni officers to consider their allegiances.

The video shows five men asking Yemen to stop supporting Bashar al-Assad.
The four-minute video's authenticity has not been verified.
A Yemeni rights group said five Yemeni officers had been studying at a military academy in Aleppo but went missing in August, Reuters reported.
They had reportedly disappeared en route to Damascus from Aleppo on their way home after completing their studies, Reuters quoted the Hood group as saying.
The four-minute video, which was posted on jihadist forums, shows the identity cards of five men, one of whom appears to be a lieutenant colonel, as well as pictures of them in military uniform.
The five are pictured sitting below a black flag emblazoned with "al-Nusra Front" in Arabic.
The video includes an interview with one of the men who says the group were sent to Damascus to help quell the uprising.
The man, who identifies himself as Mohammed Abdo Hezam al-Meleiky, says: "I ask the Yemeni government to cut all logistical and military ties because Bashar al-Assad's regime is a regime that is killing its people and that is what we saw with our own eyes when we came here."
The al-Nusra Front - or The Front for the Defence of the Syrian People - says it comprises jihadis who have returned from other wars to fight in Syria. It has claimed responsibility for numerous attacks on pro-government targets.
Activists estimate more than 27,000 people have died in the violence since the uprising against President Bashar al-Assad began last year.
Yemen's government - which is battling its own Islamic insurgency at home - has refused to criticise Mr Assad's tactics to quell the uprising in Syria.
Last November, it was one of just three Arab League states - along with Syria and Lebanon - to vote against suspending Syria from the bloc over its crackdown.
Aleppo has seen days of fighting as government forces and rebels seek to gain control of Syria's largest city.


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Question: Thousands of teenagers across the UK will have school lessons in mindfulness in an experiment designed to see if it can protect against mental illness.

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Teachers will encourage students to use "mind exercises" that train their attention on the present, such as deep breathing, in the Wellcome Trust study.
Scientists say there is limited research to show mindfulness works.
The study will see teenagers fill in questionnaires about their mood to see if it does have an effect.
Mindfulness is already taught in some schools, but in this first large-scale trial, researchers want to find out whether introducing mindfulness to teenagers early on could help build their psychological resilience.
They suggest that, just as going for a run can help protect and improve physical health, mind exercises could be linked to better mental fitness and less mental illness overall.
Sessions include a practice known as "thought buses", where children are encouraged to think of their thoughts as buses that they can choose to board or let pass by.
Others focus on deep breathing - for example, counting in for seven seconds and breathing out for 11.
In each case the aim is to focus attention on the here and now, to make students aware of impulsive behaviour, and - over time - improve their ability to solve problems when under stress.
Researchers plan to recruit about 6,000 children aged 11 to 14 in 76 schools.
Half will be given 10 mindfulness sessions over a school term. The others, for comparison, will attend personal and social education classes as usual.
Throughout the study, students will fill in questionnaires assessing their mood and risk of developing depression.
Teachers will also be asked about the students' wellbeing and any positive or negative effects they notice.
A separate, smaller group will have laboratory-based tests and brain scans.
But schools will have to decide how to juggle the sessions with the rest of the school day and teachers need four days of training before they begin.
The trial, expected to begin late next year, will run for five years, including a follow-up period of two years for each student.
Haroon, a student at UCL Academy in London, says without mindfulness he would probably be much more rowdy in class.
He told the BBC: "Children our age might think it is just a waste of time, just sitting there.
"But I don't agree. For example, certain thoughts might hold you back but just thinking about them and reflecting on them might help you think about them in different ways."
The Â£6.4m programme will be carried out by teams at the University of Oxford, University College London and Medical Research Council over seven years.
William Kukyen, a professor of psychology at Oxford, says they are approaching the trial with an open mind.
But he argues that adolescence could be a key time to intervene -  research increasingly suggests mental illness often takes root before before the age of 15 and that the brain goes through an intense period of development during teenage years.

The Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children (HBSC) report reveals that 20% of the 15-year-olds questioned had hurt themselves in the previous year.
The study, produced along with the World Health Organisation, spoke to 6,000 people in England aged 11, 13 and 15 and is due out later this year.
Self-harm can include biting and burning, as well as cutting oneself.
Get more information on self-harm on the Radio 1 website
The last comprehensive study of self-harm in England was published by the British Medical Journal in 2002.
It showed almost seven percent of the 6,000 15 and 16-year-olds questioned had self-harmed over the past year.
Prof Fiona Brooks, head of adolescent and child health at the University of Hertfordshire, led the HBSC investigation.
"Our findings are really worrying, and it [self-harm] is considerably worse among girls," she told The Guardian.
"At age 11, both girls and boys report a good level of emotional wellbeing. But by the age of 15, the gap has widened and we get 45% of adolescent girls saying they feel low once a week compared with 23% of boys."
She said factors such as stress at home, pressure to get the grades for university and the lack of a "guarantee of a job at the end of it all" can all contribute to poor mental health.
She said young people are "turning to strategies such as self-harm to manage stress in the short term".
Prof Brooks added: "Although there has been a decline in traditional risk behaviours like smoking and drug and alcohol abuse, there hasn't been a transition to more positive health behaviours."
Last year The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence published new guidance to improve standards of care for people who had self-harmed.
It claimed judgemental and negative attitudes by some hospital staff can result in some patients going on to deliberately harm themselves again.
NICE said around 220,000 people who self-harm are treated in hospital in England every year.
Amy Ratnett, 28, started to self-harm as a teenager. She spoke to Newsbeat about her experiences in May 2013.
She said: "I was in such a routine, stuck in a rut, that I didn't think of the consequences."
She used self-poisoning as a way to hurt herself, and regularly needed hospital treatment.
"I would come home from work on a Friday evening, take an overdose, call an ambulance, spend the weekend in hospital and then go back to work on a Monday as if nothing had happened," she said.
Find out more about Amy's story
"We want to help young people who experience a mental health problem and are spending over Â£50 million to boost their access to psychological therapies so they don't suffer in silence," said a spokesperson for the Department of Health at the time.
"We welcome the NICE quality standard on self-harm which will help healthcare professionals to provide high quality care."


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Question: Funding has been approved for a £500,000 Ceredigion skate park which developers said is a UK "first of its kind" and has been seven years in the making.

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Freestyle hope work on Parc Kronberg in Aberystwyth, which already has planning consent, will finish by summer 2017.
The firm said the community park is unique in that it will include pathways forming an entrance to the town.
It follows a seven-year consultation with more than 2,000 people.
About £400,000 has been confirmed in big lottery funding, with Aberystwyth Town Council providing a further £100,000.
Chris Taylor from Freestyle said: "We are all just incredibly excited - it's a UK first because it's not just a skate park, it's a community park.
"We have designed it in such a way that skaters, riders and the community can mix as much as they want.
"The skaters wanted to be interacting, and the public wanted to be closer to the youths using it too."
The project includes a play area, climbing wall, riverside viewing, cycle and footpaths and community seating areas as well as spaces for skating.

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The Sun Centre was demolished in September to pave way for the regeneration, despite a 300-name petition to save it.
Plans include the building of a new water park, an outside splash pool, sun lounger areas, cafe terraces and a bar.
Denbighshire Council said it would attract 350,000 new visitors a year to Rhyl.
If full planning permission is approved, work will begin in September 2017 and the new facilities will open in early 2019.
The council supported outline proposals for the development of the scheme earlier this year.
As part of the redevelopment Rhyl's skate park and paddling pool will be moved.
The council said it would consult with young people on the design of the park.
Jamie Groves, head of facilities, assets and housing, said the submission of the plans was a "significant milestone" for the development.
"There is a lot of anticipation into how the new water park will look," he said.


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Question: A chronology of key events:

The old port: Historic heart of Mogadishu
The Horn of Africa has been home to Somalis since ancient times.
13th-17th centuries - Ajuran Sultanate dominates much of the Horn of Africa before collapsing into rival regional sultanates.
1875 - Egypt occupies towns on Somali coast and parts of the interior.
1860s - France acquires foothold on the Somali coast, later to become Djibouti.
1887 - Britain proclaims protectorate over Somaliland.
1888 - Anglo-French agreement defines boundary between Somali possessions of the two countries.
1889 - Italy sets up a protectorate in central Somalia, later consolidated with territory in the south ceded by the sultan of Zanzibar.
1925 - Territory east of the Jubba river detached from Kenya to become the westernmost part of the Italian protectorate.
1936 - Italian Somaliland combined with Somali-speaking parts of Ethiopia to form a province of Italian East Africa.
1940 - Italians occupy British Somaliland.
1941 - British occupy Italian Somalia.
1950 - Italian Somaliland becomes a UN trust territory under Italian control.
1956 - Italian Somaliland renamed Somalia and granted internal autonomy.
1960 - British and Italian parts of Somalia become independent, merge and form the United Republic of Somalia; Aden Abdullah Osman Daar elected president.
1963 - Border dispute with Kenya; diplomatic relations with Britain broken until 1968.
1964 - Border dispute with Ethiopia erupts into hostilities.
1967 - Abdi Rashid Ali Shermarke beats Aden Abdullah Osman Daar in elections for president.
1969 - Muhammad Siad Barre assumes power in coup after Shermarke is assassinated.
1970 - Barre declares Somalia a socialist state and nationalises most of the economy.
1974 - Somalia joins the Arab League.
1974-75 - Severe drought causes widespread starvation.
1977 - Somalia invades the Somali-inhabited Ogaden region of Ethiopia.
1978 - Somali forces pushed out of Ogaden with the help of Soviet advisers and Cuban troops. Barre expels Soviet advisers and gains support of United States.
1981 - Opposition to Barre's regime begins to emerge after he excludes members of the Mijertyn and Isaq clans from government positions, which are filled with people from his own Marehan clan.
1988 - Peace accord with Ethiopia.
1991 - Mohamed Siad Barre is ousted. Power struggle between clan warlords kills or wounds thousands of civilians.
1991 - Former British protectorate of Somaliland declares unilateral independence.
1992 - US Marines land near Mogadishu ahead of a UN peacekeeping force sent to restore order and safeguard relief supplies.
1993 - US Army Rangers are killed when Somali militias shoot down two US helicopters in Mogadishu and a battle ensues. Hundreds of Somalis die. US mission formally ends in March 1994.
1995 - UN peacekeepers leave, having failed to achieve their mission.
1996 August - Warlord Mohamed Farah Aideed dies of wounds and is succeeded by his son, Hussein.
1998 - Puntland region declares autonomy.
2000 August - Clan leaders and senior figures meeting in Djibouti elect Abdulkassim Salat Hassan president of Somalia.
2000 October - Hassan and his newly-appointed prime minister, Ali Khalif Gelayadh, arrive in Mogadishu to heroes' welcomes. Gelayadh announces his government, the first in the country since 1991.
2001 April - Somali warlords, backed by Ethiopia, decline to support transitional administration.
Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys - one of the leaders of the Islamists who seized much of southern and central Somalia in 2006
Somalia: Who supports who?
2004 August - In 14th attempt since 1991 to restore central government, a new transitional parliament inaugurated at ceremony in Kenya. In October the body elects Abdullahi Yusuf as president.
2004 December - Tsunami off Indonesia displaces 10,000s on Somali coast.
2005 February-June - Somali government begins returning home from exile in Kenya, but there are bitter divisions over where in Somalia the new parliament should sit.
2005 November - Prime Minister Ali Mohammed Ghedi survives an assassination attempt in Mogadishu.
2006 February - Transitional parliament meets in central town of Baidoa for the first time since it was formed in 2004.
2006 March-May - Scores of people are killed and hundreds are injured during fierce fighting between rival militias in Mogadishu. Worst violence in almost decade.
2006 June-July - Militias loyal to the Union of Islamic Courts take Mogadishu and other parts of south after defeating clan warlords.
Ethiopian troops enter Somalia.
2006 July-August - Mogadishu's air and seaports are re-opened for the first time since 1995.
2006 September - Transitional government and Islamic Courts begin peace talks in Khartoum.
Somalia's first known suicide bombing targets President Yusuf outside parliament in Baidoa.
2006 December - Ethiopian and transitional government put Islamists to flight, capturing Mogadishu.
Ethiopian troops, government forces routed the Islamic Courts Union's militias
Timeline: Ethiopia and Somalia
2007 January - Islamists abandon their last stronghold, the southern port of Kismayo.
President Abdullahi Yusuf enters Mogadishu for the first time since taking office in 2004.
Air strikes in south against al-Qaeda figures are first direct US military intervention in Somalia since 1993.
2007 March - African Union troops land in Mogadishu amid pitched battles between Islamist insurgents and government forces backed by Ethiopian troops, after UN Security Council authorised six-month peacekeeping mission.
Pirates operating out of Somalia make key international shipping lanes perilous
Q&A: Somali piracy
Piracy concerns
2008 May - The UN Security Council allows countries to send warships to Somalia's territorial waters to tackle pirates.
2009 January - Ethiopia completes withdrawal of troops, announced the previous year, and Al-Shabab capture Baidoa, formerly a key government stronghold.
Meeting in Djibouti, parliament elects moderate Islamist Sheikh Sharif Sheikh Ahmed president, extends transitional government's mandate for another two years.
Q&A: Who are Somalia's al-Shabab?
Somalia's al-Shabab join al-Qaeda
2009 May - Islamist insurgents launch onslaught on Mogadishu and advance in the south.
2009 October - Al-Shabab recaptures the southern port of Kismayo after defeating the rival Hizbul-Islam militia.
2010-12 - Famine kills almost 260,000, the UN says.
2010 January - UN World Food Programme withdraws from Al-Shabab areas of southern Somalia after threats to lives of its staff.
2010 February - Al-Shabab formally declares alliance with al-Qaeda, begins to concentrate troops for a major offensive to capture the capital.
2011 January - Pirate attacks on ships worldwide hit seven-year high in 2010, with Somali pirates accounting for 49 of 52 ships seized.
2011 July - UN formally declares famine in three regions of Somalia. Al-Shabab partially lifts ban on foreign aid agencies in south, and UN airlifts its first aid consignment in five years to Mogadishu.
Al-Shabab pulls out of Mogadishu in what it calls "tactical move".
2011 October - Kenyan troops enter Somalia to attack rebels they accuse of being behind several kidnappings of foreigners on Kenyan soil.
American military begins flying drone aircraft from a base in Ethiopia, Ethiopian troops return to central town of Guriel.
Kenya entered Somalia in October 2011 to curb al-Shabab Islamist militants
A lot to lose - Kenya's Somali gambit
2012 February-May - Al-Shabab loses key towsn of Baidoa and Afgoye to Kenyan, African Union and Somali government forces.
2012 August - Somalia's first formal parliament in more than 20 years is sworn in at Mogadishu airport, ending eight-year transitional period. Pro-government forces capture the port of Merca south of Mogadishu from Al-Shabab.
2012 September - MPs in Mogadishu elect academic and civic activist Hassan Sheikh Mohamud president over the incumbent Sharif Sheikh Ahmed. First presidential election in Somalia since 1967.
2012 October - African Union and government forces recapture Kismayo, the last major city held by Al-Shabab and the country's second-largest port, and the town of Wanla Weyn northwest of Mogadishu.
2013 January - US recognises Somalia's government for the first time since 1991.
2013 June - Veteran Al-Shabab leader Sheikh Hassan Dahir Aweys is taken into custody by government troops after he is ousted by more extreme Al-Shabab figure Ahmed Abdi Godane.
Spike in violence with various attacks by Al-Shabab, including on presidential palace and UN compound in Mogadishu.
2013 September - International donors promise 2.4 billion dollars in reconstruction aid in three-year ''New Deal''.
Shabab attacks Kenya
2013 September - Al-Shabab seize shopping centre and kill 60 people in Kenyan capital Nairobi, saying it is retaliation for Kenya's military involvement in Somalia.
2014 May - Al-Shabab says it carried out a bomb attack on a restaurant in Djibouti, saying the country is used as a launch pad to strike Muslims.
2014 June - Al-Shabab claims two attacks on the Kenyan coast which kill more than 60, saying operations against Kenya would continue.
2014 September - Al-Shabab leader Ahmed Abdi Godane killed in US drone strike. Government offers 2 million dollar bounty for his successor, Ahmad Omar.
2014 November - Government launches country's first postal service in more than two decades. Mogadishu's first ever cash withdrawal machine installed in a hotel.
2014 November-December - Al Shabab carry out mass killings in north-east Kenya, including on a bus and a camp of quarry workers.
2015 April - Al-Shabab claim responsibility for killing 148 people, mainly Christian students, at Garissa University College in northern Kenya.Kenya carries out air raids on Al-Shabab bases in Somalia in retaliation.
2015 May - US Secretary of State John Kerry pays brief visit to Mogadishu, the first officeholder to do so, a few weeks after Al-Shabab raid government quarter of the city and kill 17 people.
2016 February -  African Union leaders agree on need for more funding and support for their military presence in Somalia after weeks of increased Al-Shabab attacks on public spaces and pro-government troops. Government and African Union troops recapture southern port of Merca that Al-Shabab briefly seized.
2016 November - Leaders of two Somali regions, Puntland and Galmudug, agree to respect a ceasefire in the disputed city of Galkayo. Fighting in the city reportedly displaced 90,000.

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Question: New Zealand fast bowler Doug Bracewell blamed the killing of a pet cockatoo by dogs for his decision to drink-drive.

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The 26-year-old was stopped by police in March, found guilty of a third drink-driving offence, and given 100 hours of community service and a ban.
Bracewell's lawyer said this was not about a disregard for road rules but a "genuine concern" for his partner.
"The cockatoo was of some significance to his partner and she was quite distraught," he said.
Lawyer Ron Mansfield told the Hastings District Court that Bracewell had been drinking at a function when his girlfriend called him about the cockatoo incident.
Bracewell, who has taken 72 wickets in 27 Tests, had previously said in a statement that he had made a "massive mistake" by driving home. He added: "This was no-one's fault but my own. I'm deeply embarrassed to have let down so many people, be they family, friends, or cricket-lovers."
Judge Bridge Mackintosh, who disqualified the cricketer from driving for a year, said: "This offending in my submissions should be seen as an unfortunate hiccup and something that doesn't reflect the man he has become or the sportsman."
New Zealand Cricket said it would not impose any additional penalty. It added that Bracewell is unlikely to resume his competitive cricket career until early next year as he recovers from a serious leg injury.
Bracewell, whose father Brendon and uncle John both played Test cricket for the Kiwis, was previously caught drink-driving in 2008 and 2010.
Other incidents:

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The 20-year-old suspect is due to appear in the Christchurch District Court on 4 April, officials said.
Police said they were also following a line of inquiry in relation to another person.
Ryder is in a medically induced coma after being attacked twice in quick succession as he left the bar.
He is believed to have suffered serious head injuries after the assaults and is now in intensive care.
At least 10 or more people are thought to have witnessed the incident, a police spokesman said earlier.
Ryder has a history of disciplinary lapses and alcohol-related incidents. Although he had been drinking before the assault on Thursday morning, police said  alcohol was not a factor.
The cricketer was in Christchurch playing for Wellington against Canterbury in the domestic one-day competition.
The 28-year-old had been due to fly to Delhi to start his $300,000 (Â£200,000) contract in the Indian Premier League.
He had chosen not to play for New Zealand since the Napier ODI against South Africa in February 2012 after he was disciplined by team management for being out drinking while carrying an injury.
Police believe two or three men attacked Ryder outside the bar, before following him to a car park and launching a second, more serious assault on the cricketer.
A witness told New Zealand's One News that she could hear the impact of the blows from inside the bar.
"As soon as the fight started there were probably four or five guys that ran out to pull them off him and hold them back while he stumbled off over the road," the witness said.
Ryder's friends and domestic and international cricketers have sent messages of support via social media.
New Zealand Cricket chief executive David White said he was "extremely concerned" for Ryder.
Meanwhile, the head of the country's Cricket Players' Association, Heath Mills, has flown to Christchurch to be with Ryder.
"The cricket community's very shocked at what's happened to Jesse. It's a sad day for us," he said.
The attack has also been condemned by Prime Minister John Key, who expressed his shock over the "sinister" and "vicious" incident.


Question: UKIP MEP Steven Woolfe will be kept in hospital for a further 48 hours following an altercation with a colleague in the European Parliament.

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Nathan Gill, another MEP, said his colleague would stay there for observation "as a precaution".
He insisted there was no danger to his health "even though it was at one stage touch and go".
He also said Mr Woolfe had "reached out a hand of friendship" to the other MEP involved, Mike Hookem.
UKIP has launched an inquiry into the incident in the European Parliament building in Strasbourg, after which Mr Woolfe subsequently collapsed and was taken to hospital.
The 49 year-old - among the favourites to be the party's next leader - had a precautionary brain scan which revealed there was no blood clot on his brain.
Nigel Farage said he has asked the party chair and secretary to conduct an investigation early next week.
He asserted "the truth will be discovered", adding: "Other claims being made in the media by representatives of UKIP who were not even there at the time are extremely unhelpful."
UKIP chairman Paul Oakden said there would be a full investigation and "appropriate action" if necessary.
The incident, understood to be between Mr Woolfe and fellow MEP Mike Hookem, took place during a heated UKIP meeting in the European Parliament.
UKIP sources said "a rumbustious argument" had taken place following claims Mr Woolfe had been considering defecting to the Conservative Party.
Accounts of what followed vary, with Mr Woolfe quoted in the Daily Mail as saying a punch was thrown at him.
UKIP did not deny Mr Hookem, who represents Yorkshire and North Lincolnshire, left the room with Mr Woolfe, although a spokeswoman is reported to have denied that a physical fight took place.
The BBC has been told it is believed that Mr Woolfe banged his head against a window or a wall but then got up. Following a vote two hours later "he collapsed" and doctors were called and his wife was contacted.
Speaking to the BBC's Newsnight programme, the UKIP chairman said the incident appeared to be a case of "two individuals who clearly got carried away" but it would be inappropriate to speculate over what caused Mr Woolfe to fall.
Mr Oakden said the events did not characterise or define UKIP, adding: "The party is far bigger than any one individual. That's something we have demonstrated particularly over these last few months."
In a statement, Mr Woolfe said: "The CT scan has shown that there is no blood clot in the brain. At the moment I am feeling brighter, happier, and smiling as ever.
"As a precaution, I am being kept in overnight awaiting secondary tests to make sure everything [is] fine."
Announcing an inquiry into the incident, UKIP interim leader Nigel Farage said: "It's two grown men getting involved in an altercation.
"It's not very seemly behaviour, but I'm not... going to get involved in the blame game, name names and say who did what."
Mr Farage has returned as UKIP leader until a fresh election is held to find a successor to Diane James. She announced her resignation on Tuesday after just 18 days in the job, citing professional and personal reasons.
Mr Woolfe, the MEP for North West England, later announced he will run for leader in the next election, having being unable to take part in the previous contest because he missed the deadline for submitting his nomination.
Raheem Kassam, the other candidate to have declared for the UKIP leadership so far, tweeted his best wishes for Mr Woolfe.
But after news of the altercation broke, one of UKIP's major donors, Arron Banks, issued a statement in which he threatened to withdraw his support for the party, saying it was at "breaking point".
He criticised UKIP's leader in Wales, Neil Hamilton, over comments he made in television interviews where he appeared to blame Mr Woolfe for events "before anyone knew if Steven was going to be OK".
Mr Banks also warned critics of Mr Farage not to prevent Mr Woolfe - who is seen as the interim leader's preferred successor - from standing.

The body of Robert Lane, 50, was found in a house on Drage Street on Thursday.
Post-mortem tests were inconclusive and a 35-year-old man arrested over the death has been released on police bail.
Mr Lane stood unsuccessfully in the 2015 general election for North East Derbyshire and intended to run for police commissioner but failed to file papers in time.
Police said further tests were being carried out in an effort to determine the cause of death.
Mr Lane taught at secondary schools across the country for more than 20 years and was a freelance writer.


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Question: Air strikes on rebel-held areas of Syria reportedly killed at least 100 people hours after the US and Russia announced plans for a truce.

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An air strike on a market in Idlib killed up to 60 people while at least 45 died in strikes on Aleppo province, opposition activists say.
A 10-day truce is meant to start on Monday, followed by co-ordinated air strikes against jihadist militants.
Turkey and the EU welcomed the plan but warned that further action was needed.
Turkey said aid must be delivered from the very start while EU foreign policy chief Federica Mogherini looked towards a "political transition".
A spokeswoman for Syria's opposition said the plan provided some hope but more details were needed about how it would be enforced.
In the capital, Damascus, the government endorsed the deal, the state news agency Sana reported.
There has been no official reaction from Iran which, like Russia, is allied to Syrian President Bashar al-Assad.
The conflict in Syria, which began with an uprising against Mr Assad, has raged for five years and claimed the lives of more than a quarter of a million people.
Millions have fled abroad, many of them seeking asylum in the EU, but nearly 18 million people remain in Syria, which has been carved up by fighting between government and rebel forces.
When a busy vegetable market was targeted in Idlib, as many as 90 people were injured in addition to those killed, media and opposition activists say.
Some of Saturday's air strikes are believed to have hit the towns of Anadan and Hreitan near Aleppo, Syria's second city.
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Getting a deal was an achievement, given the sour atmosphere between Moscow and Washington. It offers some fragile hope about stopping the slaughter.
But there is scepticism about its chances. That is because a lot is going to have to go right, quite quickly, if the agreement is to work. One necessity is President Assad's consent. A week-long ceasefire might be possible, but a political deal to end the war is still out of sight.
The Assad regime's survival depends on the Russians, so he will listen to them. But with Russia's help, the Assad regime is looking more robust. So it is hard to see why the president, or his Russian allies, would want him to go.
The war in Syria is made up of layers of conflict, which connect up to regional and global rivalries. That makes it very hard to calm, let alone end.
The truce is due to take hold at sunset on Monday, at the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Adha.
Under the plan, Syrian government forces will end combat missions in specified opposition-held areas.
In an unexpected development, Russia and the US will then establish a joint centre to combat jihadist groups.
These include IS but also Jabhat Fateh al-Sham, the group known until recently as the Nusra Front, when it was allied to al-Qaeda.
The deal was reached in Geneva, Switzerland, between US Secretary of State John Kerry and his Russian counterpart, Sergei Lavrov.
Jihadist groups like so-called Islamic State and Jabhat Fateh al-Sham (formerly known as Nusra Front) face the joint might of the Russian and US air forces
Moderate rebels and civilians in the areas they hold will no longer face the threat of indiscriminate air strikes such as barrel-bombing although the Syrian air force will not be grounded completely; aid deliveries will be allowed to areas currently under siege
President Assad will be in a stronger position as the US and Russia engage two of his most effective military opponents while moderate rebels observe the truce with his forces
Mr Lavrov said only the Russian and US air forces would operate in areas designated for co-ordinated strikes but added that the Syrian air force could operate in other areas.
Welcoming the deal, Turkey, which launched its first major military incursion into Syria last month,  said it was essential to halt fighting across Syria and deliver humanitarian aid to those in need "from the first day".
"The agreement... is very welcome," said Ms Mogherini, stressing that a UN proposal for a political transition would be "the starting point for resumption of the intra-Syrian talks".
Previous diplomatic initiatives have foundered on President Assad's refusal to give up power, leading to widespread scepticism about the latest initiative.
February 2012: Syrian government "categorically rejects" an Arab League plan calling for a joint Arab-UN peacekeeping mission
June 2012/January 2014/January 2016: Three failed UN-sponsored peace conferences in Geneva
September 2013: Kerry and Lavrov negotiate a deal to strip the Syrian government of its chemical weapons in return for the US backing away from air strikes. Since then, the government has again  and repeatedly been accused of using toxic chemicals against rebel-held areas
February 2016: World powers agree in Munich on a nationwide "cessation of hostilities" in Syria excluding jihadist groups. There is no agreement on any joint US-Russian operations. The  "pause" quickly unravels as Assad promises to regain control of the whole country
March 2016: President Vladimir Putin declares "mission accomplished" in Syria and orders removal of "main part" of Russia's air army in Syria. Russian air strikes have continued ever since

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He told French media the accusations were "rhetoric" that did not take into account the realities in Syria.
French President Francois Hollande had suggested Russian air strikes on Aleppo could amount to war crimes.
The rebel-held east of the city is under renewed bombardment after a ceasefire deal broke down.
Despite recriminations over who was to blame for its failure, Russia and the US agreed on Wednesday to resume talks on Syria.
Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov will now meet his US counterpart John Kerry and other key regional powers in Switzerland on Saturday.
Russian UN Ambassador Vitaly Churkin said he hoped some progress would be made at the talks but admitted it would be hard.
Speaking with the BBC's Lyse Doucet in New York, he said there was international disarray over how to end the fighting.
Mr Churkin too rejected allegations of Russian war crimes in eastern Aleppo but expressed what he called incredible regret over civilian casualties. He said if they were caused by his country's bombing it would be a heavy burden on Russia's psyche and soul.
Mr Putin told France's TF1 TV channel that Russia would pursue "terrorists" even if they hid among civilians.
"We can't allow terrorists to use people as human shields and blackmail the entire world," he said, adding that civilian deaths were the "sad reality of war".
Responding to claims that Russian air strikes on civilian areas amounted to war crimes he said: "It's political rhetoric that does not mean much and does not take into account the realities in Syria.
"I am deeply convinced that it is our Western partners, first and foremost of course the United States, who are responsible for the situation."
Russia has accused the US of secretly supporting al-Qaeda-linked jihadists in Syria in its bid to topple Syrian President Bashar al-Assad. The US rejects the claim.
Earlier this week, Mr Putin postponed a planned visit to France after Mr Hollande insisted that talks would be confined to Syria.
The Kremlin was also angered by a Franco-Spanish UN Security Council resolution on Aleppo at the weekend that Russia vetoed.
"They put forward the resolution knowing that it would not pass... in order to incite a veto," Mr Putin said.
"Why? It was aimed at inflaming the situation and fanning hysteria around Russia."
Moscow has repeatedly denied attacking civilians, saying it targets terrorist groups in Syria.
But earlier this week, Mr Hollande said: "These are people who today are the victims of war crimes. Those that commit these acts will have to face up to their responsibility, including in the ICC [International Criminal Court]."
Neither Russia nor Syria is a member of the ICC.
Washington broke off all negotiations with Moscow nine days ago amid extreme tension over failure to secure a truce.
The US State Department said that in Saturday's talks Mr Kerry would discuss a "multilateral approach" to ending the crisis, "including a sustained cessation of violence and the resumption of humanitarian aid deliveries."
The key regional powers, Saudi Arabia, Turkey and Iran are also expected to attend the talks in Lausanne.
Mr Kerry will follow his talks in Switzerland with a trip to London on Sunday.
The UN has appealed for a halt to the violence to allow aid into the besieged territory.
On Wednesday, at least 15 people, including children, were killed in an air strike on a marketplace in a rebel-held part of the Syrian city of Aleppo, activists say.
The strike was one of 25 in the rebel-held east on Wednesday that left a total of 25 people dead, they added.
Government forces, backed by Russian warplanes, launched an all-out assault to take control of Aleppo last month.
The Syria Civil Defence, whose rescuers are known as the White Helmets, said a number of women and children were at the market in the Fardous area when it was hit.
Video purportedly showing rescuers coming under attack from the air as they tried to rescue the injured was also shared on social media by pro-opposition activists.
Aleppo, once Syria's largest city and the country's commercial and industrial hub, has been divided roughly in two since 2012, with President Assad's forces controlling the west and rebel factions the east.
On 4 September, government forces re-imposed a siege on the east, where about 275,000 people live, and launched a major offensive to retake it after the collapse of a truce brokered by the United States and Russia.
Since then, the bombardment has killed more than 300 people, according to the UK-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights.


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Question: Lincoln City have signed midfielder Billy Knott on a one-year deal following his release by Gillingham.

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Knott made 24 appearances for the Gills last season after joining from Bradford in June 2016, but was placed on the transfer list in May.
The 24-year-old ended last season on loan with Lincoln, helping them win promotion from the National League.
"We had a great end to last season and it was only right to come back here," he told Lincoln's club website.
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Plymouth-born centre-back Ellis, 28, has made just 12 appearances since joining the Cumbrians from Shrewsbury on a permanent basis last summer.
It is his second spell at the New Lawn, having spent the 2009-10 season with Rovers on loan from Torquay United.
The deal follows fellow defender Charlie Clough's move to Barnet for an undisclosed fee on Monday.


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Question: Illegal skin bleaching products are being sold in shops in Coventry, a BBC investigation has found.

Cosmetics which claim to lighten skin by using cancer-linked chemical hydroquinone were banned in the EU in 2001.
A BBC reporter was able to buy six creams and three tested positive for hydroquinone.
Analytical chemist Andrew Reid said of the chemical: "It kills cells. It's the sort of thing used to clean toilets."
Reaction to skin bleaching investigation, plus more Coventry news
The undercover BBC Coventry & Warwickshire reporter visited 13 shops that predominantly serve people from Afro-Caribbean and Asian communities in and around Coventry.
They bought six illegal skin bleaching products from six of the shops.
Mr Reid, head of life sciences at Coventry University, said: "Three out of the six products we tested did indeed contain the nasty chemical hydroquinone.
"That's a dangerous substance which will destroy the melanin producing cells.
"The sun will damage your skin and you could end up with a cancers like melanoma or leukaemia."
Aspiring model Mutsa Chikwana, 24, of Holbrooks, Coventry, said she started using a skin lightening product after a photographer edited pictures to show her skin a few shades lighter.
"He said [the photographs] had to be a certain shade," said Ms Chikwana.
"It's quite shocking. It did not look like me.
"But if you look at the pageants it's always the light skinned girl that's won, or it's always the light skinned girl that's got that top job."
A social media campaign - #unfairandlovely - is working to challenge the widely-held belief in many parts of the world that fair skin is the most attractive.
Prof Steve Garner, head of criminology and sociology at Birmingham City University, is studying the use of skin lightening products in England.
A study in Birmingham, Bristol and London found the majority of Black or Asian woman using the creams were aged 16-24.
He said: "This problem is going to get exponentially worse unless we deal with it... and that's in terms of public health and regulating the laws that do exist.
"The ideas around using skin lighteners to change your appearance are, in some cases, borderline mental health issues."
National Trading Standards has joined with UK Border Force officials to tackle banned skin lightening products getting into the country.
Warwickshire Trading Standards officer Eleanor Lake said the authority had seized 1,000 illegal skin lightening products at Coventry airport since May.
"We've found that some of them have contained up to 13% hydroquinone and significant amounts of mercury and these are dangerous substances which can lead to cancers," said Ms Lake.
"The idea is that they're putting these products on their skin to make themselves more beautiful  - but ultimately they're causing themselves harm."

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Eloise Aimee Parry, 21, from Shrewsbury, died in hospital on 12 April after taking tablets believed to contain dinitrophenol, known as DNP.
Two websites that sold DNP were closed following her death but a BBC investigation found one had reopened under a different name.
The site has now withdrawn the pills.
Although the website is not the one thought to have supplied Miss Parry, it was one of two closed by Interpol following her death.
An Inside Out investigation for the BBC found the business was still running with a new web address.
Eloise's mother, Fiona, said she was appalled the site had continued to operate.
Together with Mrs Parry, the BBC confronted the man who runs the site from Turkey - Orhan Topcuer - who subsequently agreed to withdraw the pills.
In an online call with Mr Topcuer, Mrs Parry, a chemistry teacher, asked him: "It doesn't worry you that people die?"
Mr Topcuer replied: "If they don't know what they are using, they shouldn't use it."
Mrs Parry revealed: "The girl who died was my daughter and it bothers me that there are people like you out there who are quite happy to sell this stuff.
"There will be people who have died because of buying the stuff that you've sold."
She said she did not understand how "an industrial chemical, an explosive, can be made into tablets and sent around the world, keep killing people and not get stopped".
"I'm appalled and the fact that this stuff looks so professionally packaged may help to give it some legitimacy when we know what it really does."
In July, an inquest ruled Eloise's death was caused by an accidental drugs overdose.
Coroner John Ellery heard the student, who studied at Glyndwr University in Wrexham, sent a text message in which she said: "I think I am going to die.
"No-one is known to survive if they vomit after taking DNP. I am so scared."
The sale of DNP is the subject of an ongoing investigation, named Operation Pangea, involving police, Interpol - the international police organisation - and the Food Standards Agency.
The Food Standards Agency said: "This is a global trade and that requires a global response which is why we're working with international agencies."
Interpol's executive director of police services, Tim Morris, said the organisation had made "significant progress" by shutting down, "illegitimate online pharmacies and seizing illegal and counterfeit pharmaceutical products".
Inside Out is broadcast on BBC One West Midlands at 19:30 on Monday 7 September and nationwide for 30 days thereafter on the iPlayer.


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Question: Eurozone ministers have cast doubt on Greece's ability to push through austerity measures needed to release a 130bn euro ($170bn; Â£110bn) bailout.

At a meeting of finance ministers in Brussels, Germany's Wolfgang Schaeuble said a plan agreed by Greece's fragile coalition after days of talks was "not at a stage where it can be signed off".
The EU and IMF demanded stringent cuts in return for the bailout money.
Unions have already called a 48-hour strike in protest at the measures.
The BBC's Chris Morris, in Brussels, says European ministers want to see more evidence that the measures will actually be implemented.
There is also serious concern that the overall plan for Greece - involving the new bailout as well as an agreement for private banks to write off a substantial chunk of Greek debt - still doesn't do enough to put the country on a sustainable economic path, our correspondent says.
Luxembourg's Prime Minister Jean-Claude Juncker, head of the so-called eurogroup of finance ministers, also said he doubted whether the Greek plan was ready for approval.
"I do not have reasons to believe that there will be a definitive deal this evening," he told reporters as he arrived for the Brussels meeting.
But he hailed the progress Greece had made and said eurozone countries were likely to thrash out a deal with Athens by next week.
By Chris MorrisBBC News, Brussels
The pieces of an overall deal on Greece are beginning to fall into place. But the agreement between political parties in Athens is just one part of a complex set of negotiations involving the second financial bailout and a deal with private banks to write off 100bn euros of Greek debt.
Crucially the whole package has to satisfy the demand from creditors like the IMF that it will make Greek debt sustainable - and it's not clear that that point has yet been reached. So no-one will be signing any cheques straight away.
The question is who's going to pay. Eurozone countries like Germany believe they're contributing enough already. Private banks feel the same. Some have suggested that the European Central Bank could, under strict conditions, play a role. But there will be considerable argument over this complex choreography - not least because it involves vast amounts of money, and significant political risk.
Greece is trying to negotiate the bailout from the EU and International Monetary Fund (IMF).
It is the second such bailout, and lenders insisted on more austerity measures in return for the loan.
The mood among eurozone countries appears to be toughening on Greece, our correspondent says.
While the official view is still that Greece must be saved, he says there is more and more talk on the margins that a Greek default would not be a disaster.
The plan agreed by the Greek government includes 15,000 public-sector job cuts, liberalisation of labour laws, lowering the minimum wage by 22% and negotiating a debt write-off with banks.
But a key demand of the EU, IMF and European Central Bank was reform of the pension system, an issue that proved to be a stumbling block.
Prime Minister Lucas Papademos tried to convince his coalition partners to overhaul pensions and save 300m euros a year.
Talks broke up without an agreement, but officials later announced that a compromise had been reached. It was not clear how the 300m euro saving would be made.
The government needs the backing of the eurozone ministers and the approval of the Greek parliament before the deal can be finalised.
Neither Mr Juncker nor Mr Schaeuble detailed their doubts about the plan, but IMF officials had earlier hinted that it lacked any proposals for major institutional reform.
They were also seeking assurances that the agreed measures would not be affected by elections due in April.
Greece is already feeling the effects of an earlier round of austerity, put in place as part of a deal to release funds from a previous bailout.
Those cuts triggered widespread unrest and violent protests.
Greece is deep in recession with unemployment rising above 20%.
Unions have already said they will go out on strike over the latest austerity plans, condemning them as "painful measures" that would create misery.
Meanwhile, US President Barack Obama reaffirmed America's willingness to help stabilise the eurozone.
In a meeting with Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti, he also urged European countries to promote a strategy of growth.

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Industrial action began on Tuesday but was ramped up nationally by members of the big trade unions.
Thousands of people stopped work on Wednesday and marched through Athens to demonstrate over the measures being demanded by international lenders.
There were isolated clashes, but the most of the protest were peaceful.
Elsewhere in the country ferry services stopped and buses and trains were limited. Flights were also hit for several hours by the strike.
MPs are set to vote on controversial reforms on Thursday that will cut pensions and end tax breaks.
The left-wing Syriza government needs to make further savings before eurozone finance ministers agree to hand over further loan cash as part of its latest bailout deal.
Despite pouring rain, crowds of protesters joined a rally late in the morning in Klafthmonos Square in the centre of Athens. Further rallies were held elsewhere in the capital, including one organised by the communist-affiliated PAME union.
A large number of professions were involved in the strike, including the biggest trade unions, the GSEE and ADEDY:
The new austerity measures will not come into force until 2019 and 2020 but Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras has to persuade eurozone finance ministers next Monday to provide the next loan instalment of â‚¬7.5bn (Â£6.4bn; $8.2bn).
Mr Tsipras - who came to power pledging to resist austerity measures - said on Wednesday that he was hopeful the finance ministers would respond favourably to Greece's predicament.
Athens needs to repay 7.5 billion euros ($8.2 billion) of debt maturing in July. Mr Tsipras and German Chancellor Angela Merkel agreed during a call on Wednesday morning that a deal was "feasible" by Monday, a government official said.
Greece is facing its next big debt demand in July and has had three bailouts from the EU and IMF so far.
The country has fallen back into recession for the first time since 2012, according to figures that emerged on Tuesday.
Unemployment is running at nearly one in every four people with almost a 50%  jobless rate among young people.


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Question: BBC Sport's football expert Mark Lawrenson is pitting his wits against a different guest each week this season.

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Lawro's opponents for this weekend's Premier League fixtures are Sting and his son Joe Sumner, who are both Newcastle fans.
"Football played a big part in my life growing up in Wallsend," Sting told BBC Sport. "The last trophy we won was the Fairs Cup in 1969 and I went to a lot of our home games during that run.
"Bobby Moncur was the captain and he was my hero - he still is.
"My favourite players are from that era - people like Jim Iley, all those old people. Footballers always seemed much older than me, but now they seem like my children. It's strange, it is just an age thing.
"Winning the Fairs Cup is still the best moment I've had as a Newcastle fan - it was fantastic, but we need to win another trophy."
Joe also grew up as a Toon fanatic, although is not a Geordie like his dad.
"I grew up in north London, so it was a strange kind of cultural mix where all my friends were either Tottenham or Arsenal supporters," he said.
"Most of them were Spurs fans so despite supporting Newcastle, who nobody else I knew cared about, I have sort of developed that Tottenham-style dislike of Arsenal - it is them I cannot stand losing to."
You can make your Premier League predictions now and compare them with those of Lawro and other fans by playing the BBC Sport Predictor game.
A correct result (picking a win, draw or defeat) is worth 10 points. The exact score earns 40 points.
All kick-offs 15:00 BST unless otherwise stated.
Tottenham v Bournemouth (12:30 BST)
Tottenham just swatted Watford away last week to make it six league wins in a row and I cannot see Bournemouth stopping them from making it seven.
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The Cherries stayed unbeaten in March to climb away from the relegation zone and posed Chelsea a few problems in their last match, but I still watched that thinking that a Blues win was inevitable.
It will be the same story against Spurs this time. Bournemouth are lively coming forward, but under sustained pressure they do not look like they have enough defensively to hold out.
Lawro's prediction: 3-0
Sting & Joe's prediction: 3-1
Crystal Palace v Leicester
Crystal Palace have won five of their past six league games, which has given them a bit of breathing space to the bottom three.
This is a good time for them to play Leicester, who are in between both legs of their Champions League quarter-final with Atletico Madrid.
I thought the Foxes' 1-0 defeat in Spain in the first leg was an OK result, but I would just be wary about them not having scored an away goal - if they concede next week, they are in trouble.
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Leicester manager Craig Shakespeare made lots of changes for their last league game, at Everton, with that match in Madrid in mind.
They lost 4-2 at Goodison Park, and were so open. If they play the same way against Palace, they will get punished.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Sting & Joe's prediction: 1-2
Everton v Burnley
Burnley beat Everton at Turf Moor in October thanks to a last-minute goal but it is going to be extremely tough for them to repeat that on Saturday.
Since suffering their only home league defeat of the season, against Liverpool in December, the Toffees have won seven league games in a row at Goodison Park, scoring 26 goals and conceding five.
I think Everton's excellent run will continue - and maybe Ross Barkley will deliver the knockout blow.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Sting & Joe's prediction: 2-1
Stoke City v Hull City
Stoke are having a shocking time, with four straight defeats.
I see them bouncing back with a win here, though, because Hull are just not the same force on the road.
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Only Burnley have a worse away record in the Premier League this season and the Tigers' biggest problem is it doesn't seem too difficult for teams to beat them once they leave the KCOM Stadium.
People are asking what is wrong with Stoke, but a couple of wins and they will be back in the fight for ninth place.
Lawro's prediction: 2-0
Sting & Joe's prediction: 1-1
Sunderland v West Ham
West Ham got the win they needed against Swansea last week and they are one of several sides who have got 36 points, and look like they are safe.
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Sunderland are obviously in a completely different situation at the bottom of the table, 10 points from safety.
I actually think the Black Cats will win this game, because they are at home and it is basically the last throw of the dice.
It is like a cup final for Sunderland because they have to win it. Like I have said before, though, they don't just need one victory to save themselves now, they need three or four.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Sting & Joe's prediction: 1-1
Watford v Swansea City
Watford were torn apart by Spurs last time out, but they are another team that look like they already have enough points to be safe.
The Hornets have won three and drawn one of their past five league games at Vicarage Road, and it is their home form that has kept them out of trouble.
Swansea, in contrast, have lost their past five games on the road. It seems a long time since they were on the up, although if Fernando Llorente is fit enough to start that would be a massive boost.
It is hard to see Sunderland and Middlesbrough getting out of trouble so the final relegation spot is between Swansea and Hull.
On current form, I'd back the Tigers to survive but there is time for that to change as well.
Lawro's prediction: 2-1
Sting & Joe's prediction: 2-1
Southampton v Man City (17:30 BST)
Southampton picked up a decent point when they went to Etihad Stadium in October. They deserved it too.
I predicted a 3-0 win for Manchester City over Hull last week, and would have been right if Claudio Bravo hadn't let me down with his late mistake that allowed the Tigers to score.
I am going for a City clean sheet again this time, though, and another victory.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Sting & Joe's prediction: 1-2
West Brom v Liverpool (13:30 BST)
Jurgen Klopp made a late change against Bournemouth that I thought actually helped the Cherries fight back for a point.
Then he essentially left his front six out against Stoke, but at half-time of that game thought 'woah, this isn't right.' He sent the cavalry on with the Potters ahead and it worked - the Reds won 2-1 and could have scored more in the end.
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Klopp will have to get his selection right this time but I fancy Liverpool to get a win here.
West Brom have just started to struggle for goals again and, with no wins in four, there is a danger their season could peter out.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Sting & Joe's prediction: 1-3
Man Utd v Chelsea (16:00 BST)
Manchester United were in action on Thursday in the Europa League and are struggling for numbers a little bit.
Chelsea, meanwhile, have had the week off after their win at Bournemouth last weekend - this is where not being in European competition makes a massive difference.
With United boss Jose Mourinho saying his side's best chance of making the Champions League is by winning the Europa League, you would expect him to play his strongest side against Anderlecht, who they play either side of this game.
I was tempted to go for a draw but, because of United's schedule, I am going to back Chelsea to take another step towards the title.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Sting & Joe's prediction: 1-2
Sting was impressed to hear United fans have used one of his songs for their chant about Henrikh Mkhitaryan.
United fans sing "Whoa Mkhitaryan, Henrikh Mkhitaryan, he's our midfield Armenian" to the tune of Englishman in New York.
"I am very happy about that," Sting said. "I like to see songs repossessed and refitted for different purposes. It is pretty good too.
"As a songwriter I think it is extraordinary the way those chants go around a massive group of people, and suddenly they are all singing the same thing."
Middlesbrough v Arsenal (20:00 BST)
Arsenal were all over the place against Crystal Palace last time out, but Middlesbrough will not cause them anywhere near the same sort of problems.
Palace and Boro are poles apart, and quite a few points apart now too.
Laurent Koscielny and Petr Cech could be back from injury, which will help the Gunners at the back, but I would expect them to win this game anyway.
Lawro's prediction: 0-2
Sting & Joe's prediction: 2-2
Lawro was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan.
*Does not include scores from postponed games.
Lawro's best score: 140 points (week 22 v James McAvoy)
Lawro's worst score: 20 points (week 28, but only five games played so far) or 30 points (week four v Dave Bautista)
From last week's Premier League games, Lawro got five correct results, with no perfect scores, from 10 matches for a total of 50 points.
He was beaten by  singer-songwriter Amy Macdonald, who got seven correct results with no perfect scores, for a tally of 70 points.

Lawro picked the winner in two of the four quarter-finals and six of the eight last-16 ties.
He enjoyed a 42% success rate in the group stage, correctly guessing the outcome of 15 of the 36 games.
The only group he failed to get a single result in was Group F, which saw Hungary and Iceland spring a surprise by finishing first and second.
Before the tournament Lawro chose 11 of the 16 teams that went through to the first knockout stage, including France, his pick to win the tournament on 10 July.
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Lawro's prediction: 1-1 (Wales to win on penalties)
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Lawro's prediction: 0-2


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Question: In our series of letters from African journalists, filmmaker and columnist Farai Sevenzo looks at the state of African football, bedevilled by the perennial problems of poor organisation, tactical indiscipline and rows over money.

There isn't a city or village, bar or community hall - except, of course, those being targeted by African jihadists - where the World Cup in Brazil has not taken centre stage over the past two weeks.
Unlike any other continent, Africa's footballers belong to us all - not to Nigeria, Ghana, Cameroon, Ivory Coast or even Algeria -  but to the whole expectant mass of us in our constant need to reassert ourselves as a continent of heart and talent, especially on the world stage that is Brazil 2014.
Four years on from the first World Cup on African soil, many of the same splattering of players have landed on Brazil's green fields only to raise our anxiety levels as we watched mediocre football garnished with ageing strikers, petulant red cards and kamikaze defences.
Furthermore, we smelt the stench of mutiny and rebellion over money amongst the ranks of our African stars all the way across the Atlantic Ocean separating Brazil from the west coast of Africa.
Ghana's President John Mahama was in no mood to have his football interrupted by players who were bickering over unpaid fees and he dispatched a plane with $3m (Â£1.76m) to appease the feuding team.
The Black Stars, meant to light up our World Cup with the purest of African football as they had done in 2010, had been threatening a power cut.
Cameroon's Indomitable Lions, who at one stage had threatened not to board the plane to Brazil over unpaid money, played without teeth.
Ivory Coast's Elephants, long considered the most talented team we could offer, surrendered a chance to reach the last 16 with an idiotic penalty in the dying seconds and will go down in history as the team that could never deliver.
Pele famously predicted that an African team would win the World Cup by 2000
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Only three teams have reached the quarter-finals: Cameroon in 1990; Senegal in 2002 and Ghana in 2010
2014 was the first time two African teams reached the last 16
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Would there be a silver lining in these dark clouds over Brazil? And would that lining be all about the silver? Nigeria's Super Eagles - Africa's current champions - soon missed a training session over disagreements concerning their bonuses.
It is altogether some miracle then that, for the first time, we had two teams through to the last 16 of this world cup as Algeria and the disgruntled Nigerians continued to stamp Africa's mark on Brazil.
But why are things so fraught in African football federations?  Why is it so easy for the headlines about African football to look like allegories of bad politics and corrupt governance?
It doesn't matter where you are - Zimbabwe, South Sudan, South Africa and beyond - Africa's football fans bemoan the administrators who generally fail to provide the national teams with the support they need.
Talent and potential remain unfulfilled, teams are stranded at football tournaments because federations could not afford return tickets, and South Africa, the hosts of 2010, have had 23 coaches in 20 years.
Those that have made it to Brazil cannot escape the organisational chaos of their own federations as the constant bickering over bonuses and fees has shown.
Yet, a country's appearance at the World Cup final is worth, at the last count, $8m.
There should, should there not, be enough silver to pay the talent? When we consider Ghana's spectacular performance four years ago, Cameroon's regular appearance at tournaments, and Nigeria's status as reigning African champions - where has all the silver gone? Why is the talent treated so shabbily?
It is almost certainly the case that football is too close to political patronage in many countries and those that run our federations are closer to government than the fans.
They will preach impractical patriotism as incentive enough to play, and leave themselves open to the lure of criminals' betting syndicates and bogus international fixtures to line their own pockets.
Is it any wonder then that there is a desperate lack of trust between the players and their federations?
Moreover, the African talent on display on the fields of Brazil is made up of international stars from every league in the world who at times carry their poorer countrymen, but who cannot be expected to work under the kind of dodgy federations the Messis, Ronaldos and Neymars of this greatest show on earth never have to deal with.
It is then we saw the egos. I don't know what other football fans can see on their televisions, but there were African coaches standing on the side lines who we knew had not picked the team, whose body language said: "I have no control over these moneyed and arrogant peacocks and this is not my fault."
As the curtain fell on Africa's participation at Brazil 2014, Nigeria and Algeria lifted the football from the mediocrity of Africa's football administrators at last - losing in the dying minutes to France and Germany - and lifted us all from the nightmare images of players kissing bundles of cash.
Having previously offered his resignation following his Africa Cup of Nations triumph, citing "a lack of support and respect", Nigeria's manager Stephen Keshi did resign after the French defeat - perhaps to become South Africa's 24th coach - but he has left a young exciting attacking team we will no doubt watch for years to come.
Planeloads of cash will not win us a World Cup, but it is time to treat African talent as talent and pay them what they're worth.
And that means talent on and off the field - for football administration should not be a job for life as it so often is in many federations.
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Nigeria closed the Rio Paralympics with eight golds, two silvers and two bronze medals to finish 17th in the medal table and top among African countries.
Compare that with the performance of Nigeria's able-bodied Olympians a few weeks earlier, who brought home just one bronze medal, finishing a lowly 78th in the Rio 2016 medal table.
Nigeria's Paralympians, who first competed in Barcelona in 1992, have always outperformed the Olympians.
At the London Olympics four years ago, the green and white flag was never hoisted at a medal ceremony.
In contrast, the Paralympic team returned home with 13 medals.
Their success is all the more remarkable when you consider the difficulty and discrimination that many disabled people face in Nigeria.
For Nigerians hoping to catch a medal-winning Paralympian moment this summer, there was one sport worth tuning in for: powerlifting.
The flurry of medals (six gold, two silver, one bronze) won in this "supreme test of upper-body strength and technique", as the organisers describe it, accounted for all but three of Nigeria's Paralympic medals.
For anyone baffled by this national powerlifting prowess, a single name is often given by way of explanation: Are Feyisetan.
Dubbed "king of the physically challenged", Nigeria's national powerlifting coach is a passionate advocate for disabled sport.
A former champion power lifter himself, Feyisetan also formed the national amputee football team in 2002.
Powerlifting, he tells me, is more than just a sport for those he trains. It provides "an opportunity to pull these athletes away from stigmatisation and help them in conquering poverty".
"People expect a disabled person to beg on the streets but they are breaking those stereotypes. Many people forget that some of these guys had a normal life before accidents crippled them - so they turn to powerlifting to forge another life."
The remarkable success of Nigeria's powerlifters comes despite poor training facilities and a lack of financial backing.
Much of the country's Paralympic infrastructure, dating back to 1990, has seen better days.
The athletes train on broken benches, inside the dark and dilapidated National Stadium in Lagos, the sprawling commercial capital, where congested streets are difficult to navigate even for the able-bodied.
Despite the incredible achievements of those he has trained and in some cases funded himself, Feyisetan says that his athletes are left in a precarious position because of the way disabled sport is undervalued in Nigeria.
"Financial support from big brand companies is less forthcoming because they are all interested in football.
"If we are not careful some of these athletes celebrating gold medals today could turn to begging in the next few years - they grow older and feel used and abandoned. We need to stop that trend."
Football is the number one sport in Nigeria and support for the national team is probably the one thing that pulls Nigerians together irrespective of ethnicity, religion or politics.
The contrast between the country's football team and its Paralympians could not be more stark.
Even with millions of dollars poured into the national effort every year, Nigeria has now failed to qualify for the Africa Cup of Nations (Afcon) twice in a row, despite having the continent's largest population by far.
Considering Nigeria reached the Round of 16 at the 2014 World Cup and were Afcon champions as recently as 2013, the team's fall from grace has been dramatic.
Nigeria's Olympic team managed to reverse the trend with a bronze medal at Rio, but given the competition is predominantly for players under the age of 23, this does not necessarily mean a renaissance for the full senior team, known as the Super Eagles.
So what lessons could Feyisetan and his team of Paralympic powerlifters teach the country's faltering football stars and administrators?
Discipline:
"They leave their homes and wheel their chairs from 05:00 because we start training by 06:00 every Monday, Tuesday and Friday. That is commitment," Feyisetan tells me when describing the team's training regime. Despite numerous unfulfilled financial pledges, the team has never boycotted a competition or gone public over unpaid wages.
By contrast, at the World Cup in 2014, Nigerian players boycotted training in a row over unpaid bonuses, one in a long line of similar disputes. The Nigeria Football Federation (NFF) regularly cites cash constraints and lack of sponsorship for the team's failures.
Loyalty:
Feyisetan has been the national powerlifting coach since 2006, rejecting lucrative offers from five different powerlifting federations.
Over the same period, the Nigerian football team has had 11 different managers.
Focus and fairness:
Officials are fond of meddling in team selections when it comes to football, but in powerlifting there is no room for top government officials to impose athletes on coaches or distract participants.
The powerlifters have constantly fought off local politicians' desire to hijack their successful discipline for publicity stunts.
Footballers are distracted by media attention and social media distraction - the powerlifters, who are less well known, focus solely on their sport.


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Question: A key suspect in August's deadly Bangkok shrine bombing has fled to Turkey, Thai police say.

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They believe Abudusataer Abudureheman, also known as Ishan, organised the bombing, which killed 20 people.
The 27-year-old from China's Xinjiang province is thought to have travelled to Istanbul at the end of August.
But Turkey has denied that the man fled to the country, saying it was not informed by Thai authorities that he was trying to enter.
Earlier Malaysian police announced the arrests of three people suspected of helping the bombers flee. Thai police have already arrested two suspects.
Over the weekend, an arrest warrant was issued for Mr Abudureheman. Police say he left Thailand for Bangladesh on 16 August, one day before the bombing.
"He departed Dhaka on 30 August for Delhi... From Delhi, he continued his travel to Abu Dhabi, and from Abu Dhabi he travelled on 31 August to Istanbul. This is his final destination," a police spokesperson said.
No group has said it carried out the attack at the Erawan shrine on 17 August, but Thailand has alleged that a network that includes foreigners was behind the bombing.
One the suspects already arrested, Yusufu Meraili, is a Chinese national born in Xinjiang, according to police. They say he has already confessed to handing a backpack to the suspected bomber at Bangkok's main railway station shortly before the blast.
The main suspect - a man wearing a yellow T-shirt who left a rucksack at the shrine moments before the explosion - is still believed to be on the run.
Xinjiang is home to a significant number of Uighur Muslims, and Chinese authorities have faced criticism for the perceived harsh restrictions placed on religion and culture in the region.
Thailand recently found itself in the spotlight following its forced repatriation of more than 100 Uighurs to China.
Malaysian police chief Khalid Abu Bakar said the three suspects were detained a few days ago and were assisting with the investigation.
The Pakistani man, Malaysian man, and Malaysian woman, were arrested based on a tip-off from Thai authorities.
Thai police say the suspects are involved in people smuggling and may have helped the bombers leave the country.
"Whether they are involved in our bombing incident or not we will have to wait and see," a Thai police spokesman said.
Five members of a single Malaysian family were among those killed in the bombing.

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A leaked Thai police memo says the information was passed by Russia's intelligence agency. More than 1.5 million Russians visited in 2013.
But Thai police say they have not been able to confirm the presence of these Syrians and officials called for calm.
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An IS-linked group also claimed it brought down the Russian airliner which crashed in Egypt's Sinai peninsula in October, killing all 224 people on board.
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The leaked memo, marked "urgent" and dated 27 November, was from a commander of Thailand's Special Branch and was sent to police units.
It says Russia's Federal Security Service (FSB) had told Thai police that the Syrian militants had entered the country between 15 and 31 October to target Russians.
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The memo reads: "They travelled separately. Four went to Pattaya, two to Phuket, two to Bangkok and the other two to an unknown location."
The plan was to target "Russians and Russia's alliance with Thailand," it says.
The memo calls for increased security around possible targets.
Pattaya and Phuket are both popular resort destinations for Russian tourists, and Christmas and New Year are peak seasons.
But Thai authorities said they had still to determine whether the Syrians had even entered the country.
A deputy spokesman for the Thai police Songpol Wattanachai confirmed the memo was authentic, but added: "So far it's only intelligence news that still needs to be proved... we have no proof if they are here for real or not."
National Security Council Chief General Thawip Netniyom said: "We have yet to find any unusual movement. Everything is safe, rest assured."
Immigration Bureau commissioner Nathathorn Prausoontorn told Reuters news agency that of the 231 Syrians who had entered in October, only 21 remain and there were "no irregularities" among them.
In August, a bomb at a Bangkok temple that killed 20 people was the first major attack on a tourist target in Thailand.
Two Muslim Uighurs were arrested and charged, although authorities say they are linked to people-smuggling gangs, not Islamist militants.
But the BBC's Southeast Asia correspondent, Jonathan Head, in Bangkok, says there are outstanding arrest warrants for a further 15 suspects for that bombing who are still at large.
There is a widely-held belief that it was carried out in retaliation for Thailand's controversial decision in July to repatriate more than 100 Uighur asylum seekers to China, he adds.


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Question: Television channels in Russia and Ukraine are using emotive language in their coverage of the conflict in the east of Ukraine, with Moscow-based channels employing particularly strong terms to compare Ukrainian authorities with Nazism.

Russian state TV's coverage of the crisis has been consistently sensationalist, using a wide repertoire of propaganda techniques to incite revulsion and hostility towards the authorities in Kiev.
Television in Ukraine has fastened on the role of the Kremlin and decries Russian media "lies", though with less emotive language than Moscow-based channels.
A constant refrain of Russian TV's reporting of the Ukraine crisis has been its attempts to equate the current authorities in Kiev and their supporters with fascists.
One of the ways they have done this is to brand them as banderovtsy, followers of controversial Ukrainian nationalist and wartime partisan leader Stepan Bandera.
Bandera was demonised by the Soviets and still is by Vladimir Putin's Kremlin as a Nazi collaborator, but is revered as a hero in parts of Ukraine.
The word junta is often used on Russian television to describe the Ukrainian government, suggesting a lack of legitimacy following the ouster of pro-Russian President Viktor Yanukovych in February.
More emotive is the use of the words "fascist" and "Nazi" in many Russian TV reports. They are words used in several contexts, from portraying the far-right Right Sector as Ukraine's real driving political force, to drawing parallels with World War Two.
Russian state TV widely uses the term "punitive operation" when referring to Ukraine's security operation in the east.
The term, which normally refers to wartime German reprisals on Soviet territory, was first heard during a speech by Mr Putin on state TV in March, in which he said that supporters of Mr Yanukovych were being threatened by "repressions and punitive operations".
Russia's state channels Rossiya 1 and Channel One have each used the term in more than 500 reports, and the word "punishers" more than 100. Their use is not universal, however. Gazprom-owned NTV has used the term sparingly, and has never used "punishers".
In Ukrainian newscasts, stories about Russia portray the country in a negative light but language has been restrained in comparison to that on Russian TV. There has also been mild criticism of the country's military commanders.
Coverage has evolved in recent days from suggestions of Russian involvement to direct accusations. Russian forces, which were previously described as "someone helping from the neighbouring state", are now openly accused of taking part in the fighting. According to one report on the 1+1 channel, Ukrainians "are being killed not only by terrorists, but also by Russia".
Pro-Russian separatists are routinely referred to as "terrorists" as Ukrainian channels follow the government line, irrespective of ownership or leaning.
Much Ukrainian coverage has been devoted to accounts of torture and kidnapping by pro-Russian fighters, and rebutting what it calls Russian media "lies" about the Ukrainian government's self-declared "anti-terrorist operation".
If the Russian stance on any issue is mentioned, it is invariably dismissed as "Kremlin propaganda" with Oleksandr Dubynskyy, a journalist working for Ukrainian 1+1 TV, referring to the Russian pro-Kremlin LifeNews rolling news channel as "liars and scoundrels".
Stronger editorial criticism of the Russian authorities can be seen away from news broadcasts, with documentaries and live discussion programmes promoting strong anti-Moscow views, and it is on live talk shows where the most outspoken views on Russia are heard.
The Freedom of Speech programme on ICTV and Shuster Live on Kiev's state-run UT1 both feature harsh criticism of Russia, voiced by numerous Ukrainian officials and politicians.
However, alternative opinions are also aired, and presenters make no attempt to block dissent.
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Zhanna Nemtsova told the BBC that she had received threats, and this was one of the reasons behind her departure.
In a newspaper column, she said Russian propaganda echoed the era of genocide in Nazi Germany and Rwanda.
Mr Nemtsov, a leading Kremlin critic, was shot dead in Moscow in February.
Five suspects have been arrested over the killing, all of them from the Russian republic of Chechnya. However, the investigation has not established who ordered the murder, and one of the suspects has said he was forced to make a confession.
Several critics of Russian President Vladimir Putin have left the country over the last few years, complaining of intimidation and authoritarianism.
A close friend of Mr Nemtsov, Vladimir Kara-Murza, was admitted to hospital with acute kidney failure last month. Doctors have not established a cause and his father told the BBC he suspected poisoning.
In a column for business daily Vedomosti, Ms Nemtsova said state-controlled media in Russia had contributed to her father's death by labelling him and other opposition leaders "traitors".
She accused pro-Kremlin journalists of spreading hatred and intolerance, and urged the West to impose sanctions against those involved.
"Many of the texts of Kremlin-controlled media recall the rhetoric of African propagandists," she wrote.
"Putin's information machine - similar to those in Nazi Germany and Rwanda - is using criminal methods of propaganda, and sowing hatred which generates violence and terror."