内容摘要：The structures would then become buried and provide a home for fish, crabs and other marine life in the new saltmarsh, offering protection from predators, Groundworks said.

The structures would then become buried and provide a home for fish, crabs and other marine life in the new saltmarsh, offering protection from predators, Groundworks said.

A backlash from some voices in the UK can be expected, even though successive Conservative and Labour prime ministers have been working towards the same broad goal.Tory leadership candidate Tom Tugendhat argued the deal had been "negotiated against Britain's interest" and it was "disgraceful" that such talks had begun under the previous Conservative government.

He called it a "shameful retreat" that leaves "allies exposed", while the former foreign secretary James Cleverly called it a "weak" deal.Human Rights Watch (HRW) said the deal will "address the wrongs against the Chagossians of the past but it looks like it will continue the crimes long into the future”.There must be meaningful consultations with the Chagossians or the UK, US and now Mauritius will be responsible for "a still-ongoing colonial crime", Clive Baldwin, senior legal advisor at HRW said in a statement.

But there can be no doubting the historic significance of this moment.Half a century or more after the UK relinquished control over almost all its global empire, it has finally agreed to hand over one of the very last pieces. It has done so reluctantly, perhaps, but also peacefully and legally.

The remaining British overseas territories are: Anguilla, Bermuda, British Antarctic Territory, British Virgin Islands, Cayman Islands, Falkland Islands, Gibraltar, Montserrat, Pitcairn, Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands, Turks and Caicos Islands. There are also two sovereign base areas on Cyprus under British jurisdiction.

Following the Chagos announcement, the governor of the Falklands said the islands are safe in British hands."He faced motor neurone disease with great courage, and he would talk to anybody about it," said Tony.

"He wanted everybody to know. So this is great, because it's letting people know."He carried the baton for as long as he could, and then when he couldn't carry it any more, we've taken it on for him."

Ian's wife, Catherine, was also there supporting the swimmers, hoping for "a world free of MND".She said, when people were diagnosed, she wanted doctors to be able to "just go bang, here is a jab... so that sufferers are all fine again".