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The Government's planned cuts to legal aid present a "disturbing new landscape" which will be "bad for children, bad for women and bad for families", campaigners have said.
Launching a manifesto for family justice, the campaigners urged the Government to rethink its plans ahead of its Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill being considered by MPs next week.
Stephen Cobb QC, chairman of the Family Law Bar Association, said: "We have come together as a broad cross section of organisations deeply concerned by the consequences of the Government's proposals.
"We are facing a disturbing new landscape in which 600,000 people will no longer receive legal aid, 68,000 children will be affected by the removal of legal aid in family cases, 54,000 fewer people will be represented in the family courts annually and there will be 75% fewer private law cases in court."
Measures being introduced in the Bill would also see more people going to court on their own without legal representation, a move senior judges have warned could increase both costs and delays.
Mr Cobb added: "We face the very real prospect that many children and women who have been victims of domestic abuse will have to endure the further trauma of being cross-examined by their alleged perpetrator, who will not be eligible for legal aid."
Campaigners backing the call for a rethink include the Association of Lawyers for Children, the Bar Council, Caada (Co-ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse), the Children's Commissioner, the Family Law Bar Association, Gingerbread, Liberty, the National Federation of Women's Institutes, Resolution and Women's Aid.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "If there is evidence of domestic violence, child abuse or forced marriage, we are absolutely clear that legal aid must remain available.
"However, at more than £2 billion a year we have one of the most expensive legal aid systems in the world. It is also a system that has grown to encourage lengthy acrimonious and sometimes unnecessary court proceedings at the taxpayers' expense.
"That's why we feel it's right to encourage families, where appropriate, to resolve their disputes without going to court."
The Queen has shown her frugal side by arriving for a church service in the dress she wore to the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge's wedding.
When William and Kate walked down the aisle in April all eyes were on the bride's gown but the monarch was subtly making her own fashion statement.
The Queen wore a primrose yellow single crepe wool dress and matching coat and hat by her personal assistant Angela Kelly.
The monarch was able to leave the coat behind when she travelled with the Duke of Edinburgh to Canberra's oldest church for a traditional Sunday service.
Temperatures in the Australian capital were close to 30C with bright summer sunshine creating a feeling of high summer rather than the southern hemisphere spring the country was experiencing.
The dress featured hand sown beading at the neck in the shape of sunrays while the crepe hat had hand made silk roses and matching apricot coloured leaves.
Close to a thousand people had gathered around crash barriers erected close to St John the Baptist church, and when the royal couple - who are touring Australia - arrived they cheered and clapped.
The Queen walked into the place of worship with its rector the Reverend Paul Black followed by the Duke and clergy.
The service was held behind closed doors with more than 100 people sat in the pews including former Australian prime minister Kevin Rudd.
After the service the Rev Black, who has held his post for four years, said: "It was a great joy and delight for St John to have the Queen and Duke amongst our congregation."
The Government has handed over more than £18.6 million to schools to help them turn into academies, figures show.
Union leaders said it was a "waste of taxpayers' money" while one MP said the figure was "astonishing". The Department for Education (DfE) said the costs reflect the success of the academies scheme.
The academies programme was first established under Tony Blair's Labour government to boost standards in poorer areas. Last year, under the new coalition Government, Education Secretary Michael Gove opened up the scheme to allow all schools to apply for academy status.
Academies are semi-independent state schools, free from local authority control, that receive their funding directly and have more freedom over areas such as the curriculum and staff pay and conditions.
Schools applying to convert can submit an application for a "conversion support grant", a one-off payment of up to £25,000 to help meet the costs. The money is used to help meet legal and administrative costs, such as changing signs.
A response to a written parliamentary question asked by Lisa Nandy, Labour MP for Wigan, reveals that the total converter grant paid out so far is £18,642,779. In his response, Schools Minister Nick Gibb adds that "this is expected to increase as more converting schools are given grants to convert".
As of October 1, 1,031 schools in England had converted to academy status, while a further 495 had applied to do so, the written answer shows. It means that each of the 1,031 schools received the equivalent of just over £18,000 each.
Ms Nandy said: "It's an absolutely astonishing amount of money to spend on conversion. You have to ask the question whether this money would be better spent on all children and all schools rather than some schools and some children."
Christine Blower, general secretary of the National Union of Teachers said: "At a time when local authority and schools budgets are being cut, it seems an extraordinary waste of taxpayers' money that such financial rewards are being handed out to schools that are simply converting to academies. As these schools already exist it is baffling why the Secretary of State feels they should be given thousands of pounds."
A DfE spokesman said: "Schools becoming an academy incur costs for various things such as legal fees, carrying out consultations and buying new signs and stationery. As a contribution to these costs, the department pays them a grant of £25,000. This was made clear on the day the policy was launched, and the costs so far reflect the runaway success of the programme."
Scottish Secretary Michael Moore has claimed that the Scottish Government's "small Scotland" approach risks relegating the nation to the sidelines in future international military interventions.
Speaking after the death of Col Gaddafi and the planned winding down of Nato operations in Libya, Mr Moore insisted that a "separate Scotland could not have protected Libyans from Gaddafi".
However, a spokesman for First Minister Alex Salmond described Mr Moore's statement as "bizarre", "inaccurate", "tasteless" and "ignorant" of the fact that 17 countries took part in the Libyan operation.
Mr Moore said UK Cabinet members, MPs, officials and diplomats from Scotland had helped deliver the UK position on Libya. He added: "I think people in Scotland would agree we should not lose that influence through the 'small Scotland' approach of the Scottish Government.
"Our experience in Libya proves we shouldn't be looking to downsize Scotland's international influence. We should be proud of it and prepared to use it to achieve good where we can.
"The Scottish Government needs to answer exactly what its defence force would look like outside the UK and whether it would be part of international memberships like Nato.
"Scotland deserves to know whether it is going to be part of making the world more secure or simply watching from the sidelines in the future."
The Scottish Government's Your Scotland, Your Voice paper states that an SNP-led independent Scottish Government would co-operate with international alliances such as Nato while not being a member.
Mr Salmond's spokesman said: "This bizarre statement from Michael Moore is as inaccurate as it is tasteless - he has shown a complete lack of judgment in issuing it.
"The SNP and Scottish Government fully supported the military action in Libya because it was endorsed by the international community through a Security Council Resolution - we opposed the disastrous and illegal war in Iraq which was so enthusiastically backed by the Tories, the Lib Dems' coalition partners."
Libya's new leaders will declare liberation later, officials said, in a move that will start the clock for elections after months of bloodshed that culminated in the death of long-time dictator Muammar Gaddafi.
But the victory has been clouded by questions over how Gaddafi was killed after images emerged showing he was found alive and taunted and beaten by his captors.
The long-awaited declaration of liberation will come more than two months after revolutionary forces swept into Tripoli and seized control of most of the oil-rich north African nation.
It was stalled by fierce resistance by Gaddafi loyalists in his hometown of Sirte, Bani Walid and pockets in the south. Sirte was the last to fall, but Gaddafi's son and one-time heir apparent and many of his fighters have apparently escaped, raising fears they could continue to stir up trouble.
With Gaddafi gone, however, the governing National Transitional Council (NTC) was moving forward with efforts to transform the country that was ruled by one man for more than four decades into a democracy.
In Tripoli, residents said they were relieved Gaddafi was killed, not captured, allowing the nation to move forward without fear that his supporters would try to sabotage the transition to democracy.
"If there was a trial, it would take some time. ... Maybe there would be revenge attacks," said Hosni Bashir, an oil worker who was attending the first meeting of a new political party in a Tripoli hotel. "Now, they (Libya's new leaders) can start."
Initially, NTC officials said the declaration of liberation would be made on Saturday. But spokesman Abdel-Rahman Busin said preparations were under way for a ceremony in the eastern city of Benghazi, the revolution's birthplace, on Sunday.
The transitional leadership has said it would declare a new interim government within a month of liberation and elections for a constitutional assembly within eight months to be followed by a parliamentary and presidential vote within a year.
On Saturday, acting prime minister Mahmoud Jibril, who has said he plans to resign after liberation, said the interim government "should last until the first presidential elections". Speaking at the World Economic Forum on the Jordanian shores of the Dead Sea, he also said the NTC must move quickly to disarm rebels who helped to overthrow Gaddafi's regime.
The number of drivers who have lost their driving licence due to failing eyesight has more than doubled in the last four years.
Those whose licence was revoked totalled 1,597 in 2006 but the figure was as high as 4,009 last year, according to figures obtained by the Co-operative Motor Group following a freedom of information request.
Group managing director Tony Guest said: "Good eyesight is essential to safe motoring, and we would urge anybody who has concerns over their vision to contact a specialist. There is no room for complacency when it comes to road safety."
The Co-operative Motor Group said the law demanded that any driver with concerns over their eyesight should see a doctor or eye specialist and - if they are advised to do so - they must then contact the Driver and Vehicle Licensing Agency to inform it if they have a condition that makes it dangerous to drive.
Failure to do so is punishable by a fine of up to £1,000, and will also invalidate driver insurance.
These were the number of licences revoked: 2006 - 1,597; 2007 - 2,612; 2008 - 2,764; 2009 - 3,014; 2010 - 4,009.
David Cameron has spoken of the "chilling effect" of the eurozone crisis on Britain.
He arrived at an EU summit in Brussels insisting the issue had to be tackled once and for all - and it involved all member states and not just those in the single currency club.
"The crisis in the eurozone is having an effect on all our economies, Britain included." the Prime Minister insisted.
"It's having a chilling effect. We need to deal with this issue and so it's right to have a European council (summit) and for the European council to discuss this issue here in Brussels today."
EU leaders were taking their turn on the third day of talks designed to forge an economic crisis response which will calm market fears and deliver reassurance that the eurozone has a credible package of measures to withstand current and future economic shocks.
On Saturday EU finance ministers, including Chancellor George Osborne, produced a provisional agreement to the tune of 100 billion euros (£87 bn) on strengthening European banks' liquidity.
Bank recapitalisation will not affect British banks which have already been shored up since the current economic crisis began in 2008.
But the issue is one of three parts of an ambitious package deal due to be announced at another EU leaders' summit in Brussels next Wednesday.
The leaders are striving for an accord on the other two parts - a massive increase in EU bailout funds, rising potentially from billions to trillions, and a 50% write-down of Greek debt repayment.
Draft summit conclusions on the table confirm there will be another summit on Wednesday: the text welcomes the agreement on banking sector measures "and invites the Council to finalise this work at its meeting of 26 October".
A senior Cabinet minister has warned Tory MPs that they would be expected to vote against a Commons motion calling for a referendum on Britain's future in Europe.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said that staging a popular vote on Britain's EU membership was contrary to Government policy and should not be supported by Conservative MPs.
He said the Government would be imposing a three-line whip in Monday's Commons debate on a backbench motion calling for a referendum ordering them to vote against or face the prospect of disciplinary action.
"Right now the immediate and urgent issue is sorting out the crisis in the eurozone. Investment, job prospects, economic growth in Britain are all threatened by the current crisis in the eurozone and this, frankly, right now is a distraction," Mr Hammond told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show.
"The three-line whip remains because the motion is contrary to Government policy. Governments impose a three-line whip to protect their policy when a motion is laid in the Commons which contradicts it."
Europe minister David Lidington said the motion went way beyond anything that was in the Conservative general election manifesto.
"I think the actual motion that we've got is the wrong one to have. I think the idea that you should have a referendum on a rather abstract idea of renegotiating is a mistake," he told Sky News's Murnaghan programme.
"What that motion seeks to do is to make a specific commitment of Parliament telling the Government that they want a Bill introduced to commit the Government to hold a referendum on certain things, that goes way beyond what was in the Conservative manifesto in 2010, let alone the coalition agreement."
David Cameron is facing potentially the most dangerous rebellion of his premiership so far when MPs vote.
Sixty Tory MPs have now signed a motion calling for a referendum on whether the UK should remain in the EU, leave or renegotiate its membership, while another 33 have signed compromise amendments which ministers say also run counter to Government policy.
Tunisians are voting in elections that are a culmination of a popular uprising that ended decades of authoritarian rule and set off similar rebellions across the Middle East.
Tunisians will elect an assembly that will appoint a new government and then write the country's constitution to replace the 23-year presidency of Zine El-Abidine Ben Ali, who was overthrown by the month-long uprising on January 14.
Tunisia's revolution set off a series of similar uprisings across the Middle East that are now being called the Arab Spring, and if Tunisia's elections produce an effective new government they will serve as an inspiration to pro-democracy advocates across the region.
Scotland will become an independent nation, the country's First Minister has said.
Alex Salmond said he was "confident" his Scottish National Party would win the referendum on independence that is set to take place.
Speaking on the BBC's Andrew Marr show, the First Minister said: "In my waters, in my heart, in my head I think Scotland will become an independent country within the European Community, with a friendly, co-operative relationship with our partners in these islands."
The SNP's landslide victory in May's Holyrood elections - which saw the party become the first to secure an overall majority of MSPs - means people in Scotland will be given the chance to vote on the country's constitutional future.
No date has yet been set for that referendum, but SNP leaders have said it will take place in the second half of Holyrood's five year long parliamentary term.
Mr Salmond said the referendum would include the option of voting for independence, but would also give voters the chance to opt to keep Scotland in the UK but with increased powers
This option - dubbed 'devo-max' - would give Scotland complete control over taxation and spending north of the border.
The First Minister said: "What will be on the ballot paper is a straight yes no question to independence, that's what we said we would do in the election campaign."
He went on: "The proposal is to have a second question, in the same way as we had in 1997, which would offer a fiscal autonomy option.
"I'm not for limiting the choices of the Scottish people, I leave that to Westminster." And he added: "I am confident we will win the referendum on Scottish independence."
Sir Richard Branson's Virgin Money looks to be in pole position to land Northern Rock as the auction of the nationalised lender nears its conclusion.
Final bids for the Newcastle-based bank are due this week, with the Sunday Times reporting that Virgin will pip buy-out vehicle NBNK to the prize.
The sale is likely to crystallise a loss of at least £400 million for taxpayers, who pumped in £1.4 billion after the bank's collapse four years ago.
Meanwhile, Lloyds Banking Group is expected to veto a straight sale of the retail banking business that it must spin off to meet competition rules.
The Sunday Telegraph said a stock market flotation of the Project Verde business, which includes 632 branches, was now a near certainty.
It is another blow for NBNK, which was the only remaining bidder after placing a valuation on Verde of less than half its book value, or £1.5 billion.
NBNK, which is led by Lord Levene and former Rock chief executive Gary Hoffman, viewed the Lloyds branches as the base for a move on Northern Rock, which it believes would be too small to survive as a standalone bank.
Virgin's other rival for Northern Rock, the American private equity firm JC Flowers, is reportedly on the brink of dropping out of the bidding process.
Virgin is backed by Wilbur Ross, the billionaire Wall Street investor, as well as an Abu Dhabi investment fund and a large British pension fund.
The current eurozone financial crisis, which has led to fears over the stability of the European banking system, is likely to have drained the appetite of bidders for both banking operations.
A powerful earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 7.2 has struck eastern Turkey, collapsing some buildings and causing a number of deaths according to officials.
The quake struck eastern Van province, the US Geological Survey said. It caused widespread panic throughout the province as well as neighbouring cities.
It toppled some buildings in central Van as well as the neighbouring town of Ercis, officials said. Several strong aftershocks were also reported.
"There are so many dead. Several buildings have collapsed, there is too much destruction," said Zulfikar Arapoglu, the mayor of Ercis told NTV television. "We need urgent aid, we need medics."
Residents spilled out into the streets in panic as rescue workers struggled to evacuate people, believed to be trapped under collapsed buildings, television footage showed.
In Van, at least two buildings collapsed, Bekir Kaya, the mayor of Van, told NTV. One of them was a seven-story building, according to the state-run Anatolia news agency.
The USGS originally gave the magnitude as 7.3 but later corrected it to 7.2. It said the quake had a depth of 20 kilometres (12.4 miles), which is relatively shallow and could potentially cause more damage.
Turkey's Kandilli observatory gave it a preliminary magnitude of 6.6 but put its depth at 5 kilometres. Several aftershocks as strong as magnitude 5.5 followed, the observatory said.
The quake's epicentre was in the village of Tabanli in eastern Van province, bordering Iran. But it was felt in several provinces across the area.
Earthquakes are frequent in Turkey, which is crossed by faultlines. In 1999, about 18,000 people were killed by two powerful earthquakes that struck north-western Turkey.
Britain has urged the new Libyan government to mount an investigation into the killing of former dictator Colonel Muammar Gaddafi.
Defence Secretary Philip Hammond said the reputation of the new National Transitional Council had been "a little bit stained" by the way Gaddafi died at the hands of his captors.
Graphic footage broadcast around the world from the scene showed a wounded and bleeding Gaddafi being manhandled by fighters loyal to the NTC before apparently being shot.
"It is not the way we would have liked it to have happened. We would have liked to see Col Gaddafi going on trial, ideally at the International Criminal Court, to answer for his misdeeds," Mr Hammond told BBC1's The Andrew Marr Show.
"I think that the fledgling Libyan government will understand that its reputation in the international community is a little bit stained by what happened.
"I am sure that it will want to get to the bottom of it in a way that rebuilds and cleanses that reputation."
Anti-capitalists protesters have warned they are in it for the long haul and are prepared to spend Christmas staked out at St Paul's Cathedral.
The cathedral is closed to thousands of Sunday worshippers because of the Occupy London campaign outside the historic building.
The church is losing around £16,000 per day as a result of the decision to close its doors amid health and safety concerns.
An even larger sum is expected to be lost today when the cathedral would usually raise vital revenue from Sunday collections.
The protesters said the closure of St Paul's was an unfortunate decision and unnecessary.
"As far as we are aware, we abided the fire inspection and environmental and health inspection," a 41-year-old protester named Jo said.
Jo, who declined to give her surname, is unemployed after living abroad.
She said she and many others were prepared to continue the stance as long as it took to effect real change.
"I'll be sitting here until there's real evidence the underlying system that allows a few to get very rich while others starve will change," she said.
Sean, an 18-year-old civil servant who also withheld his surname said he had taken a week off work to join the protest and was prepared to camp at the cathedral on Christmas Day and beyond.
The Met Office has issued severe weather warnings for parts of England and Wales, as heavy rains are predicted to hit some areas.
People are urged to "be aware" of the possibility of severe weather in several regions across Great Britain, including: Northern Ireland, Wales, West Midlands, South-West England, London and South-East England.
Areas likely to be hit the hardest by the extreme weather are Cornwall, West Devon, Pembrokeshire and Northern Ireland, according to the Met Office, which said there could also be the possibility of some flooding.
The weather service's website said: "Periods of heavy rain, accompanied at times by strong winds, will affect parts of western Britain during Monday.
"The public should be aware that quantities of rain may be sufficient in a few places to disrupt travel and give rise to localised flooding.
"In Northern Ireland the heaviest rain is expected to arrive later in the day."
Many regions are likely to see 30-60mm of rain, and in some torrential downpours could bring more than 100mm, the Met Office website said.
"Presently the most vulnerable areas look to be Cornwall, West Devon, Pembrokeshire and the whole of Northern Ireland.
"In Wales and Southwest England the heaviest rain is likely to fall during daylight hours, in Northern Ireland it is more likely to be in the evening.
"Gusts exceeding 50mph may exacerbate any problems, by leading to leaves and other minor debris blocking drains."
Retired holidaymakers who were swept to their deaths in a flash flood in Spain have been described as "the most devoted couple you would ever want to meet".
Kenneth Hall, 72, and his wife, Mary, 70, from Bootle, Merseyside, were visiting a market in Finestrat, near Benidorm, when torrential rain led a river to burst its banks at around midday on Friday.
Water surged through a dried-up ravine and deluged traders who set up their market stands in the area each week.
Neighbour and close friend Pat Mercer, 62, said the Halls were midway through a fortnight's holiday to the Costa Blanca resort of Benidorm when the tragedy struck.
She said: "They went to Benidorm twice a year. They loved it out there, they went there for the last 20 years or so.
"They went to all the shows out there.
"They were fabulous, they were the most devoted couple you would ever want to meet."
She added: "Kenny was a proper gentleman. Mary was happy-go-lucky. She loved living around here."
The Government's planned cuts to legal aid present a "disturbing new landscape" which will be "bad for children, bad for women and bad for families", campaigners have said.
Launching a manifesto for family justice, the campaigners urged the Government to rethink its plans ahead of its Legal Aid, Sentencing and Punishment of Offenders Bill being considered by MPs next week.
Stephen Cobb QC, chairman of the Family Law Bar Association, said: "We have come together as a broad cross section of organisations deeply concerned by the consequences of the Government's proposals.
"We are facing a disturbing new landscape in which 600,000 people will no longer receive legal aid, 68,000 children will be affected by the removal of legal aid in family cases, 54,000 fewer people will be represented in the family courts annually and there will be 75% fewer private law cases in court."
Measures being introduced in the Bill would also see more people going to court on their own without legal representation, a move senior judges have warned could increase both costs and delays.
Mr Cobb added: "We face the very real prospect that many children and women who have been victims of domestic abuse will have to endure the further trauma of being cross-examined by their alleged perpetrator, who will not be eligible for legal aid."
Campaigners backing the call for a rethink include the Association of Lawyers for Children, the Bar Council, Caada (Co-ordinated Action Against Domestic Abuse), the Children's Commissioner, the Family Law Bar Association, Gingerbread, Liberty, the National Federation of Women's Institutes, Resolution and Women's Aid.
A Ministry of Justice spokesman said: "If there is evidence of domestic violence, child abuse or forced marriage, we are absolutely clear that legal aid must remain available.
"However, at more than £2 billion a year we have one of the most expensive legal aid systems in the world. It is also a system that has grown to encourage lengthy acrimonious and sometimes unnecessary court proceedings at the taxpayers' expense.
"That's why we feel it's right to encourage families, where appropriate, to resolve their disputes without going to court."
The Government has been urged to do more to help the "forgotten army" of medium-sized businesses because they can no longer rely on bank lending.
The CBI said firms with a turnover of between £10 million and £100 million represented less than 1 of economic revenue and 16% of all jobs.
The business group said the Government should make bond markets more accessible to medium-sized companies, which could kick-start demand through credit easing.
They should also be able to access a broader range of capital release equity, the CBI urged.
John Cridland, director general of the CBI, said: "Medium-sized businesses are truly a forgotten army, and now is the time to unlock their potential.
"We should be championing, nurturing and encouraging our mid-sized firms so that more of them grow and create jobs. For too long these companies, which could inject tens of billions of pounds into our economy, have fallen under the radar of policymakers.
"I want the UK to have its own version of the German "Mittelstand" - a backbone of medium-sized firms which export, innovate and generate growth. These future champions would help the UK weather unexpected economic shocks, and act as a new engine for growth.
"To achieve extra growth, medium-sized firms must have access to new kinds of finance. This means opening UK bond markets to medium-sized businesses, encouraging use of venture capital, and making it easier for large companies to invest in medium ones, possibly in their supply chains."
A Department for Business spokesman said: "We welcome the CBI's focus on the UK's mid-sized companies, and today's report. This sets out a range of ways in which businesses, representative bodies and the Government can support this important group.
"The Government is already focused on this group as part of the growth review, and we will be setting out our proposals alongside the autumn statement in November."
David Cameron has been involved in a furious row with French president Nicolas Sarkozy as tensions over the eurozone crisis boiled over.
The two men clashed during a six-hour EU summit in Brussels as leaders sought to hammer out a solution to the problems gripping the single currency.
The row erupted after Mr Sarkozy tried to insist that a follow-up meeting on Wednesday should be restricted to the 17 eurozone leaders.
At one point in the exchanges, the French president was quoted as telling Mr Cameron: "We are sick of you criticising us and telling us what to do. You say you hate the euro and now you want to interfere in our meetings."
In the end, however, Mr Cameron won his battle to ensure that all 27 member states would be there.
The decision to hold a further summit this week means that Mr Cameron has had to call off visits to Japan and New Zealand ahead of the Commonwealth heads of government meeting in Perth, Australia.
According to EU officials, Mr Sarkozy complained that he was tired of reading in the newspapers about advice Mr Cameron and his Chancellor were offering the eurozone. He said George Osborne had been present on Saturday for the agreement on strengthening banks - an issue which affects all 27 countries, although Britain will not need to take action.
Now, on the two remaining issues involving only the eurozone, he argued that Britain and the rest should stay away. The argument ran on, with Mr Cameron finally winning a concession involving a one-hour meeting of the 27 leaders before the 17 break away separately for final negotiations.
The Prime Minister said there had been talks on whether the 27 should meet first or second, pointing out that if the 17 had the final say, Europe would risk destabilising market confidence if the other 10 then tried to "unpick" the deal.
At an end-of-summit press conference, Mr Cameron urged the eurozone leaders to take responsibility for delivering a credible response to restore market confidence in the single currency. While progress was being made, he said that more needed to be done ahead of Wednesday's meeting.
