Children's heart surgery is set to restart at Leeds General Infirmary, a week after it was claimed data showed higher-than-usual death rates there.

Operations are due to resume early next week after a meeting between NHS bosses and other partners on Thursday night.
Data suggested death rates there were double that of other centres, but experts have questioned their accuracy.
However, the Department of Health (DoH) said the NHS was right to investigate safety at the unit.
A spokesperson said: "We support NHS England and the trust in their decision to suspend surgery last week on the basis that there were serious concerns that needed to be investigated.
"If the trust and the regulators are content that these concerns can now be explained or addressed then we would support a joint decision to resume surgery."
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust said work would be done over the weekend to give "sufficient assurance" the unit is safe to reopen, early next week.
Doctors and other medical experts said the data on death rates had not been verified and was not fit to base a decision to close the unit on.
Mortality data and staffing are just two of the concerns being looked at as part of a review into why children's cardiac surgery at Leeds General Infirmary was suspended last Thursday.
Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, NHS England and the Care Quality Commission have all been involved.
The indication is that if the trust can provide strong assurances that heart surgery is safe, then the unit could reopen early next week.
But discussions will continue over the weekend as part of the review, which is expected to last three weeks.
If the unit does reopen, Leeds General Infirmary will have to reassure patients and families that safety of care is paramount.
The NHS can ill afford another scandal after Mid Staffs.
Yet Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt will probably have the last say on the future of children's heart services, at Leeds and elsewhere.
A separate independent review is set to report to him on the whole restructuring of children's heart services in England.
But, Sir Bruce Keogh, the medical director of NHS England, said the figures were among a "constellation of reasons" the decision was made.  He has been backed by health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
A senior Westminster source has told the BBC that "as far as the secretary of state is concerned, Sir Bruce Keogh was right to ask questions about the safety of heart surgery at the unit".
Parents had criticised the timing of the suspension of surgery at the unit, which came 24 hours after a High Court judge ruled that a decision-making process to close it as part of an England-wide reorganisation of services was "legally flawed".
Stuart Andrew, the Conservative MP for Pudsey, called for "some really serious investigating" into the decision to suspend surgery.
Mr Andrew claimed a review of the mortality figures showed "Leeds is within the average and is a safe unit to use".
He said recent events raised questions about the NHS decision to close the Leeds unit for good and concentrate children's heart surgery in fewer centres.
"We are losing faith in that review process," said Mr Andrew.
"Some of these people are the same people on that decision-making body."
Lois Brown, whose five-year-old daughter had life-saving heart treatment at the hospital, described the decision to restart surgery as "fantastic".
Ms Brown has been involved in the campaign and court action to save the unit from closure.
She said she wanted answers as to why the unit was shut.
"I'm really relieved that children are going to get surgery at Leeds again," she said.
"For the past week and a bit we have been putting children's lives at risk for no reason, apparently."


Lionel Messi has been named winner of the Ballon d'Or for the fifth time, but does he fit a mould spanning 60 years?

The forward - standing 5ft 7in - comes in shorter on average than the 59 previous winners of the award, handed to the player deemed the best on the planet.
But what does such a rare player typically look like? Where are they from? And what heroics typically see someone take the honour?
From inaugural winner Stanley Matthews in 1956 to Real Madrid superstar Cristiano Ronaldo last year, we have profiled each of the recipients prior to Messi's win to analyse the "perfect" Ballon d'Or winner.
Note: The Ballon d'Or could only be won by European footballers between 1956 and 1994. Nominations were extended to include Europe-based players in 1995. In 2010 it became the world player of the year.
So if you're a 26-year-old, dark-haired, right-footed, German/Dutch-born Barcelona forward then you've a great chance of bagging the trophy.
But what about winning the World Cup or European Championship? Does lifting either trophy, or simply catching the eye that summer, help propel a player towards Ballon d'Or glory?
In World Cup years, 47% of Ballon d'Or winners helped their nation become champions - including England's 1966 hero Sir Bobby Charlton, France's 1998 match-winner Zinedine Zidane and Italy's 2006 victorious captain Fabio Cannavaro.
Only 36% helped their nation win the European Championship on the way to earning that year's Ballon d'Or.
However, strong performances by an individual at a major international tournament - for example, Czechoslovakia midfielder Josef Masopust at the 1962 World Cup finals, or USSR midfielder Igor Belanov at Mexico 86 - have helped unfancied names earn their place on the gold-covered bauble.
England winger Matthews, then aged 41, was the first player to win the prize - but only five other men from the UK have followed in his footsteps.


A Swansea man has been jailed for having a stash of bomb-making manuals and instructions on how to carry out "lone wolf" knife attacks.

Lee Griffiths, 26, from Clydach, was caught with terrorist material, including copies of so-called Islamic State magazine Rumiyah and the Anarchist Cookbook.
He was jailed for five years and four months at the Old Bailey in London.
The court was told that Griffiths, a Muslim convert, had been radicalised.
He received a hospital order in 2011 for a knife attack on his mother while she slept, the court heard.
Following his discharge last August, and while living at a residential home for mental health service users, it was told Griffiths was quickly radicalised.
Extremist material was uncovered after police raided his bedroom and seized his mobile phone last January.
The judge, Mr Justice Saunders, said it was impossible to say whether Griffiths' radicalisation was "as a result of the interventions of others or simply from what he found on the internet".
Sentencing, he said: "I am not of course sentencing this defendant for preparation of terrorist acts himself at the time of his arrest.
"It cannot, however, in my judgment be ruled out that at some stage, because of his mental instability, the defendant could have made use of the information himself or have supplied it to another to enable them to carry out a terrorist outrage.
"Whatever the nature of the defendant's mental problem, I accept that he is vulnerable but he is also dangerous.
"He has shown that he can be extremely violent for no reason and his radicalisation and beliefs cause considerable concern."
Earlier, prosecutor Simon Davis said the defendant had been sent to a medium secure mental health unit in Bridgend after he attacked his mother.
He was released from the Carswell clinic in August 2016 on condition that he live at the residential home in Swansea where he was routinely searched by staff when he went out.
Mr Davis said staff had noticed he changed from being interested in fishing, cooking and football to becoming fixated with Islam and serial killers.
His views became more extreme by last October when he also attended a mosque in Swansea.
The defendant, who worked at a local food bank, was described as vulnerable and easily led but computer-literate.
Barrister Ian Ibrahim, for Griffiths, said it was difficult to mitigate in the wake of recent atrocities but stressed the defendant was a "young man with a history of psychiatric illness".
Griffiths admitted five counts of possessing information which may be useful to someone who commits or prepares acts of terrorism and one of dissemination of a terrorist publication.


The epic Rosetta space mission to Comet 67P has come to end - with a bump!

30 September 2016 Last updated at 15:38 BST
The spacecraft made a planned crash-landing on to the surface of the comet on Friday afternoon, sending back lots of information to Earth in the process.
It left Earth back in 2004, with the mission to chase down 67P and study it.
It reached the comet in 2014, after a 10-year journey, and landed a space probe, called Philae, on to it.
But things didn't all go to plan, as Ricky's been finding out...


An increase in tourists visiting Skye is a factor behind a shortfall in the availability of homes for islanders, Highland councillors have heard.

The number of families categorised as homeless has more than doubled over the last 12 months from 15 in 2016 to 32.
Private accommodation previously available on long-term leases is now being offered as holiday lets.
Skye councillor Calum MacLeod said tourism had brought opportunities but also challenges.
A report to Highland Council's Isle of Skye and Raasay Committee on Monday said homeless families were having to spend longer in temporary accommodation before being offered a home.
Council officers said on average the time spent in temporary housing had increased from about 20 weeks to more than 27 weeks since 2015/16.
After the meeting. Mr MacLeod told BBC Alba: "We are lucky in some respects on Skye in that we are experiencing an increase in tourism, which is wonderful - it brings lots of opportunities, but challenges at the same time.
"One of the challenges is that with the increase in tourism a lot of private landlords are now seeing the opportunity to go to the commercial sector."
He said there was not enough "back up" accommodation left to offer homeless families.


Police have made an "urgent" appeal for information following an airgun incident in Angus.

A man in a black Honda car was seen with an air weapon near the nature trail at St Vigeans, Arbroath, at about 18:45 on Monday.
Officers at Tayside Police said anyone who witnessed the incident should contact them as a "matter of urgency".
The force is particularly keen to speak to a female jogger who was in the area at the time.


Greece's parliament has backed a government package of economic reforms aimed at ending the country's debt crisis and securing a new bailout.

In a late-night debate, Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras admitted many proposals fell short of his party's anti-austerity promises.
But he said there was a "national duty to keep our people alive and in the eurozone".
The proposals are to be studied by eurozone finance ministers later.
EU sources says Greece's creditors - the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund - believe the plan is positive.
Eurozone officials are also expected to discuss Greek requests for some of the debt to be rescheduled.
While a majority of the 300-member parliament backed the plans in the early hours of Saturday, several government MPs voted against or abstained.
Mr Tsipras is asking for â‚¬53.5bn ($59.47bn) to cover Greece's debts until 2018.
In return, he has given in to demands for a pension overhaul, tax rises and privatisations - measures rejected in a referendum last Sunday.
Greek banks are days away from running out of money and unless a deal is struck the country faces exiting the euro.
The BBC's Mark Lowen in Athens says the Greek reform package is a major climbdown for the prime minister, whose radical left-wing Syriza party was elected on a strong anti-austerity platform.


Welsh swimmer Chloe Tutton could be a medallist at the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, according to Beijing double gold-medallist Rebecca Adlington.

The 20-year-old Rhondda swimmer missed out on 200m breaststroke bronze by 6/100ths of a second in Rio.
But Adlington, who won 400 and 800 freestyle gold medals in 2008, says there's more to come from Tutton.
"I'm sure we'll be seeing her on the podium at World, Commonwealth Games and in Tokyo," she told BBC Wales Sport.
"Chloe is definitely the future, 100%.
"She's only 20 years old, she's come into her first international global meet and she's come fourth.
"I think she should be very proud of her achievement.
"She's got such a bright future ahead of her and more British records between her and Molly [Renshaw] I'm sure."
Tutton said she was honoured by Adlington's description of her as the future of British swimming.
"That's really nice, especially coming from Rebecca Adlington. It's such an honour.
"It's been an incredible experience, it's been a roller-coaster lots of ups and downs, but I'm really proud to be on this team.
"I'm sure it won't be normal for the rest of my life after this as I'll be able to look back and think 'I'm an Olympian now' and that's always been my dream.
"Tokyo 2020 was always my target so hopefully I can pull that off as well."
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Adlington was delighted by the success of another Welsh swimmer, Jazz Carlin, who claimed silver medals in the 400 and 800m freestyle.
Carlin missed the 2012 London Games after illness and Adlington has been impressed with her commitment.
"She's had to fight back, but that's what makes Jazz the world-class swimmer she is," added Adlington.
"She's so resilient, so determined and dedicated to prove to herself as much as everyone else that she is this world class athlete.
"And it's so nice to see her reach that potential because I've known it from racing her back in '09.
"She's got that hunger and that 'I want to succeed mentality' and she's so lovely.
"It couldn't go to a more deserving person as well.
"It's been a long time coming - a few missing the teams, a few finishing fourths.
"But this is the one that you want to do well at, the Olympic games, and for her it is fantastic."
Hear Rebecca Adlington's interview on Radio Wales Sport, 19:00 to 21:00 BST, Monday, 15 August.


Channel 4 has commissioned a full new series of Chris Evans' anarchic chat show TFI Friday following its one-off revival earlier this month.

Eight episodes of the show have been ordered and will air later this year, the broadcaster has confirmed.
Evans, recently confirmed as the new host of the BBC's Top Gear will return to present the programme.
TFI Friday, which mixed music and chat with stunts and skits, originally ran from 1996 to 2000.
A one-off revival of TFI Friday was broadcast on 12 June and featured appearances by former Oasis singer Liam Gallagher, Roger Daltrey and F1 champion Lewis Hamilton.
The show drew a peak audience of 4.2m viewers.
A short filmed sketch showed former Top Gear host Jeremy Clarkson instructing Evans in how to present the motoring show.
Evans was confirmed as the new lead presenter just four days after the programme was broadcast on Channel 4.
"Chris is the best of the best of live broadcasters and I never doubted for a moment that this TFI would live up to expectations," said Jay Hunt, Channel 4's creative officer.
"Confirming a series was a no-brainer."
"TFI Friday is indeed coming back for a short but perfectly formed run of eight shows pre Christmas," Evans tweeted on Tuesday.
Transmission dates and information about being part of its studio audience would follow soon, he promised.
"Oh my goodness, are we really going to get to do this again?" he added in a statement. "Looks like it - and leading into Christmas too.
"I might actually spontaneously explode on live television due to over excited-ness.â€Ž Does that still count as unpredictable cos [sic] I've said it now?"
Channel 4 said the show would feature "top celebrity guests, leading music acts and a variety of colourful segments" and would "once again be a key part of the Friday night schedule".


The idea of getting biometric data - fingerprint and iris scans - of a billion people would seem to be an impossibly complex task.

But the Indian government is in the final stages of enrolling all of its citizens in the world's largest ID system. Siva Parameswaran of the BBC's Tamil Service finds out how they did it.
The system is known as Aadhaar, which means foundation.
It started as a voluntary programme to help tackle benefit fraud - and is now described as "the largest and most sophisticated ID database in the world".
Once the government committed to it - with the hope that it would be able to use it to raise more taxes, register voters and identify the hundreds of millions of drivers using false licences - it began taking the details of people whenever they came into contact with state agencies.
Biometric details were - and continue to be - recorded in schools, hospitals, childcare centres and special camps.
Aadhaar's website claims that 90% of Indians are now registered, though this figure is disputed by activists.
Aadhaar, or a Unique Identification Number, is allocated to every Indian and remains their national identity document forever.
It has become virtually impossible to do anything financial without it - such as opening a bank account or filing a tax return.
However, the scheme does in theory remain voluntary, and the highest court is hearing a petition on making it compulsory; the final judgement is awaited.
When Indian cricket star MS Dhoni accidentally had his number published on Twitter in March 2017, it exposed the many worries Indians have about having one single code so crucial to many aspects of their lives.
One fear is that it will become a method of financial surveillance.
Questions have also been raised about the moral authority of the government to force citizens to share biometric data. Activists say it is breach of the UN's Fundamental Right of Privacy.
People's Union for Civil Liberties activist Suresh told the BBC that citizens were not briefed about the implications of sharing their private data, but did so as they feared they would not be able to carry out financial transactions, gain admission to educational institutions and access subsidised food products from government-run shops.
"There is no guarantee that the data will not be leaked and also no accountability structure is in place," Suresh explained.
Activists also fear that it will be impossible to ensure that data will not be misused or abused, though authorities told the BBC that all the biometric data was well protected.
Investigative reporter Saikat Datta of the Observer Research Foundation says that Aadhaar has been converted into "the world's biggest surveillance engine."
And while India has a billion phones, laws for protecting the data on those phones are antiquated.
When the National Identification Authority of India Bill was introduced in 2016, it was sent to a special committee of the Parliament, whose members made scathing remarks about the project.
This committee recommended that enactment of legislation on data protection and privacy law was a "prerequisite" for the Aadhaar scheme.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also strongly criticised the scheme in 2014.
But Aadhaar's authorities say their data protection goes far beyond what is required in the law.


The SNP won every seat in Tayside on the way to a Scotland-wide landslide in the general election.

The party gained Dundee West from Labour and held Dundee East, completing a clean sweep of the city where it already held both Holyrood seats and the council.
It also held Angus and Perth and North Perthshire, and gained Ochil and South Perthshire, Falkirk and Stirling.
Labour lost out in each of the gains on a catastrophic night for the party.
The SNP's Chris Law overturned a Labour majority of more than 7,000 in Dundee West, winning 61.9% of the vote on the way to beating Labour candidate Michael Marra by more than 17,000 votes.
Dundee East representative Stewart Hosie, also the party's deputy leader, saw his majority soar from 1,800 at the last election to more than 19,000, winning 59.7% of the vote.
In Angus, the SNP's Mike Weir also increased his majority, winning 54% of the vote and almost twice as many votes as his nearest challenger, Conservative candidate Derek Wann. Mr Weir thanked the people of Angus for "putting their trust in me and the SNP".
Pete Wishart, formerly the SNP's chief whip at Westminster, also took more than half of the vote in Perth and North Perthshire, finishing almost 10,000 votes clear of his Conservative opponent Alexander Stewart.
Mr Wishart said it had been a "fantastic night", adding that he was "not going to be so lonely any more" at Westminster.
Tasmina Ahmed-Sheikh took Ochil and South Perthshire for the SNP, toppling Labour's Gordon Banks by a margin of more than 10,000 votes.
In Stirling, Steven Paterson also took what had been a Labour seat by a five-figure margin, finishing 10,000 votes clear of Labour candidate and city council leader Johanna Boyd.
Labour suffered an even heavier defeat in Falkirk, where the SNP's John McNally polled 19,701 more votes than Labour rival Karen Whitefield. The area's previous representative, Eric Joyce, won a majority of 7,843 in 2010.


A prison nurse who let a colleague take penile swabs from him and used offensive language towards inmates has been cleared to return to work.

Toby Bunting was suspended from HMP Peterborough while the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) heard his case.
He greeted prisoners with "hello bitches" or "hello slags" and did not declare drugs offences, it heard.
The NMC said it was in the public interest that a "skilled" nurse could work again.
Mr Bunting, who no longer works at the prison, was originally suspended for six months by the nursing body following a hearing in February.
He admitted a number of offences, including letting a colleague take swabs from him for training purposes.
The hearing heard Mr Bunting used inappropriate language to describe his colleagues, and showed one diagrams of penises.
It was also told he was convicted of drugs offences in the US in 1998 and 2000, but failed to declare them on his application form. The offences took place between January 2009 and November 2010.
Considering his case again following the suspension, the nursing body said Mr Bunting intended to do a return to practice course in January and would like to work again as a registered sexual health nurse.
It said the panel had also received medical evidence that showed he was managing his current health conditions.
The panel said: "You apologised for your failings and demonstrated clear remorse and understanding of the impact those failings had on colleagues, patients and the reputation of the nursing profession."


Former Leicester manager Nigel Pearson says he felt proud but "very detached" when they won the Premier League.

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He said it was a "big shock" to be sacked in June 2015 by the Foxes, who won their first top-flight title under Claudio Ranieri last season.
Pearson, in charge at Championship club Derby County since May, says he found being out of the game tough at times.
"They've gone on and achieved something that really, in the modern game, is impossible," he told Football Focus.
"I'm delighted for the players and the staff there."
However, he added: "I felt pride - but I was very detached, actually."
Leicester became English champions for the first time in their 132-year history, finishing 10 points ahead of second-placed Arsenal - and they won the league having been 5,000-1 outsiders with many bookmakers at the start of the season.
"It's a great story for football," added Pearson. "It's a bit like the Olympic stories, where there's this real interest in sport for sport's sake, rather than for the financial side of it, and some of the other stories that go with high-profile sport.
"Leicester will have earned a lot of new fans over the last 12 months in particular - and it's really made a brand new story."
Pearson has had two spells as Leicester manager, with his second coming to an end shortly after he had guided the club to Premier League safety with a run of eight wins in their final 10 matches.
But he was also involved in several high-profile incidents, including calling a journalist an "ostrich" and clashing with Crystal Palace midfielder James McArthur on the touchline during a match.
Leicester said at the time of the sacking that their working relationship with Pearson was "no longer viable".
"It came as a big shock," Pearson said. "Some people say: 'Maybe you shouldn't be shocked.' But it came as a bit of a shock. A lot of a shock.
"And the timing, of course, is not great timing, really - just when pre-season is about to start. That happens in life sometimes.
"I'm talking about it now, and really, it's something I'm not overly fussed about talking about any more.
"It's a situation that has been dealt with over a period of time by myself and the family. We're all fine and we're all healthy - and we've moved on."
Pearson, 52, spent 11 months out of football before being appointed by Derby and he says he had not intended to take a full season's break when he left Leicester.
He said: "It was a break which I clearly didn't plan for, and I certainly wouldn't have expected to have been out for as long as I was, but there we are.
"I enjoyed certain parts of it, and other parts I found very, very difficult.
"Football's a very fickle industry in many ways in terms of how people perceive you, and whether you're thought to be the right person for jobs.
"There's a lot of very cheap talk around. I just tried to distance myself from all of that, really. It was an interesting year in many ways. I'd not been out of work for a while, and the circumstances of being out of work were not something that I particularly enjoyed."
Derby are 16th in the Championship after three matches under Pearson and play Aston Villa on Saturday, a club who were interested in appointing him as manager following their relegation from the Premier League at the end of last season.
Pearson said in June that he had held talks with Steve Hollis and Randy Lerner, then the club's chairman and owner respectively.
However, he has indicated that he did not reject Villa in order to join Derby.
Pearson said: "There was no crossover between the Aston Villa and the Derby situations.
"I'm always very wary of the types of stories where it's said you trade one off for the other and it's comparative. It didn't happen like that.
"The negotiation that went on, went on. It didn't happen. Then this opportunity came along and it did materialise - and I'm delighted that I'm here."
See Derby manager Nigel Pearson's interview with Mark Clemmit on Football Focus this Saturday at 12:15 BST on BBC One.


A Catholic teenager was tied to a wooden cross in a mock crucifixion as part of a "sustained course of victimisation and bullying" by work colleagues, a jury has heard.

The boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, also had religious and phallic symbols drawn on his face and body with permanent marker, York Crown Court was told.
Four men have gone on trial accused of religiously aggravated assault.
All four deny the charges.
Austin Newman, opening the case for the prosecution, told the jury the boy obtained an apprenticeship at a shop fitting company in Selby, North Yorkshire, in July 2014.
During his apprenticeship, he worked across the country with the four defendants: company manager Andrew Addison, Joseph Rose, Christopher Jackson and Alex Puchir.
Mr Newman said: "He was subjected to acts of bullying, which the Crown say went beyond anything that could reasonably be described as banter or high jinx in the workplace."
Mr Newman said the boy was a practising Roman Catholic and told the jury the defendants were motivated by hostility based on his religious observance.
Mr Addison, 30, Mr Jackson, 22, and Mr Puchir, 37, are accused of tying the boy to a wooden cross and hanging him from a wall "in a way which resembled a crucifixion" leaving him suspended about a metre above the ground for 10 minutes.
On another occasion, Mr Rose, 21, is accused of using a permanent marker to draw crosses and penises across a large proportion of the boy's body and face while he was asleep.
Mr Rose is also accused of spraying deodorant towards the boy's head and lighting it while he was asleep in bed.
Mr Addison is also accused of tying the teenager to a chair and leaving him locked in a room by himself and pulling the boy off the ground by his underpants - leaving him with cuts and bruises to his buttocks.
The prosecutor said Mr Addison remained silent when interviewed by police after his arrest in May 2015.
The other three defendants accepted their involvement in the incidents but claimed they were part of general workplace "banter", the jury heard.
Mr Addison, of Selby, and Mr Rose, of Bubwith, East Yorkshire, both deny putting a person in fear of violence by harassment and religiously aggravated assault by beating.
Mr Addison also denies a charge of assault by beating.
Mr Jackson, of Barlby, North Yorkshire, and Mr Puchir, of Edinburgh, , both deny religiously aggravated assault by beating.
The trial continues.


A diner who was turned away from a restaurant for wearing sandals had his evening saved by a homeless man who offered him his boots.

Akbar Badshah, from Bradford, drove "for an hour" to celebrate his wife's birthday at Fazenda's in Manchester but was told he needed different footwear.
He turned to nearby rough sleeper John, who said he would be "happy" to help and lend him his boots.
Mr Badshah now intends to thank John with a meal at the restaurant.
Mr Badshah, who also wanted to break his Ramadan fast, told BBC Radio 5 live: "The [staff] said, 'unfortunately we have to turn you away - do you have any spare shoes?'
"I said, 'I don't, I've driven an hour to get here, I'm starving, I've not eaten all day.'"
He and his wife Rozmin - who had previously suggested her husband should wear shoes - left the restaurant and later struck up a conversation with John, who had recently received a new pair of boots from an outreach shelter.
"We had a little chat and I just asked John, 'What shoe size are you?'," Mr Badshah said.
"He said, 'I'm a 14,' and I said, 'I'm a size 9, I'm in a bit of predicament... can I borrow your shoes?'
"He goes, 'Yes certainly, I'll be happy to lend you my shoes.'"
The couple went on to enjoy their meal as planned, then returned the boots to John, who told Mr Badshah he had just wanted "to help another human being out".
Mr Badshah said John only accepted a Â£10 note in thanks "on the third attempt".
Another man, who overheard the conversation between the pair, then gave John a Â£50 note, which Mr Badshah said was "good karma".
Mr Badshah said he now hopes to return to the restaurant with John for a meal.


An arson and vandalism attack last month on an African-American church in Mississippi was carried out by a black member of the congregation, police say.

Andrew McClinton, 45, was charged over the incident, in which "Vote Trump" was also spray-painted, a week before the presidential election.
Police suspect the attack at Hopewell Missionary Baptist Church was staged to make it look like a hate crime.
The news comes as Michigan police found an alleged hate crime to be false.
Police in Ann Arbor said a Muslim student at the University of Michigan fabricated a claim that a man threatened to set her on fire if she did not remove her hijab, a headscarf often worn by Muslim women, on 11 November.
Following an investigation, police determined she had lied about the incident. The unidentified student could face charges for filing a false report, said officials.
In the Mississippi case, the suspect has a long criminal record.
Mr McClinton was arrested on Wednesday and charged with first-degree arson on a place of worship.
He is due in court on Thursday in Greenville, where the fire occurred on 1 November.
Mississippi Insurance Commissioner Mike Chaney said: "We do not believe it was politically motivated.
"There may have been some efforts to make it appear politically motivated."
Hopewell Bishop Clarence Green confirmed that Mr McClinton, who lives about six miles from the church, is a member of the 200-strong congregation.
"This is the first I have heard of it," Mr Green told the Associated Press of the arrest.
Mississippi department of corrections records show Mr McClinton has a string of convictions dating back to 1991 for grand larceny, receiving stolen property and attempted robbery.
Greenville Mayor Errick D Simmons said: "There is no place for this heinous and divisive behaviour in our city.
"We will not rest until the culprit is prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law."
Last month he called the church burning "a direct assault on the Hopewell congregation's right to freely worship".
The fire made national headlines, such as the Atlantic's "A Black Church Burned in the Name of Trump".
A GoFundMe page raised more than $200,000 of donations in two days for the church, but has since been taken down.
The attack stirred up painful memories of church burnings during the Deep South's Jim Crow era of enforced racial segregation.
Greenville is a predominantly African-American Mississippi River port city and a Democratic bastion in a strongly Republican state.
Church leaders say the structure will probably have to be completely rebuilt.


There was no ceremony this time but the penultimate train carrying coal from Tower Colliery to Aberthaw arrived bang on time.

The power station in the Vale of Glamorgan has been taking Welsh coal for decades but this 1,450 tonne delivery on Wednesday afternoon was one of the final ones.
Coal used to come from the deep mines of the south Wales valleys until the final underground operation at Tower - re-opened by the miners themselves 13 years earlier - closed down in 2008.
Since then, Aberthaw has relied exclusively on supplies from opencast and drift mines, including Tower Colliery's surface business.
Welsh coal itself is "low volatile" - which means it is harder to burn.
Aberthaw and its boilers were built specifically to burn this type of coal, making it almost unique in Europe.
But a tightening of environmental regulations on toxic nitrogen oxide emissions and the decision to make the station generate only at peak times mean only very tiny amounts of Welsh coal will be used in future.
Instead, coal from Russia and Australia - easier to burn and with fewer emissions - is being imported; although still in relatively small amounts.
Richard Little, station manager, has contracts until 2021 and still believes the plant has a role, until the next generation of energy suppliers can step up.
"Aberthaw will support the transition from a very coal-dominated UK generation system to a more gas and renewable future - we see ourselves as a bridge between those two things," he said.
"Although there have been periods over the summer when coal generation has fallen to zero, when margins are tight, the UK very much needs the capability of the remaining coal plants."
It has inevitably meant a scaling back and the station is undergoing its second round of redundancies in three years.
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Geoff Jenkins, 60, agreed his voluntary redundancy on Wednesday and will be leaving in a few months after 37 years.
The operations supervisor has seen four different owners and what seems constant change, driven by economic and environmental factors.
"A lot of investment has been put in the plant to deal with emissions and to keep us on top and it has been continual since the early 1990s," he said.
"It has been a very exciting and good place to work but it's a battle because we know we're a coal station."
But he is hopeful there is a future, with two sons also at the plant.
"I've told them stay here as long as possible," he said. "The management  are looking ahead at which ways we can survive, running differently - winter only and not summer. It could give us a chance to run maybe another 10 years.
"In that time, with the electricity market changing, the chances are we could end up as a combined cycle gas turbine site like Pembroke or Staythorpe [Nottinghamshire].
"As the workforce comes down, hopefully they can transfer. These lads have had to change and learn all new operating procedures - they've adapted to everything thrown at them."
Mr Jenkins added: "We'll be here from when there is shortage of supply in the winter, and be here when solar and wind power isn't available until nuclear and new gas comes on line, so we're topping it up and then they'll quietly close us down."
A "thank you" note from Tower was attached to the front of the coal train, as it arrived to unburden its wagons.
Mr Little said the end of a long history with the Hirwaun colliery had come a couple of years earlier than envisaged, with decisions taken over emission levels, but he fully understood the impact on both miners and power station workers.
"We've been working closely with them for a long time so they understand what's coming, and we were inevitably moving to a position where our consumption of Welsh coal was going to reduce," he said.
The European Commission took the UK Government to court last year, claiming it had been pumping out more than double the legal amount of nitrogen oxides for seven years.
Greenpeace claims shutting Aberthaw now on its existing emissions would save lives spread across Wales and England.
The environmental group's chief scientist Dr Doug Parr said it was time to think about the workforce rather than "eking out a little more profit" at an ageing station which was inevitably going to close.
RWE Generation defends its record and said local air quality standards had been within European and UK limits for the last 15 years.
Inside Aberthaw's control room, you can watch the furnaces burn on one screen, while monitoring emission levels for "SOX and NOX" - sulphur and nitrogen - air and water quality and noise. If any of the on-screen displays turn from green to yellow, this will be recorded.
Those in charge have not given up on Aberthaw having a future in some form.
"People are anxious to know what exists beyond this power station - and there is a possibility of future generation on this site," Mr Little said.
"But even if this doesn't happen, we're looking at options to move people to Pembroke where we have a big gas station and to re-skill people in readiness for that transition which will inevitably come for everyone."


Prince Harry has been knighted by his grandmother, the Queen, for "services to the sovereign".

The prince, 30, has been made a Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order (KCVO), Buckingham Palace confirmed.
A personal award given by British monarchs for service to them, the honour was given privately at the palace earlier.
The prince is to leave the Army later this month after 10 years of service, including two tours in Afghanistan.
During his military career he has publicly supported charities including Help for Heroes and ABF the Soldiers' Charity.
In March 2014 he launched the Invictus Games for injured members of the armed forces.
He also helped set up the charity Sentebale in Lesotho to help children affected by HIV and Aids.
After leaving the Army, the prince will do voluntary work with a conservation project in Africa and with disabled veterans in the UK.
When his plan to leave the Army was announced in March, he said it had been a "really tough decision" which left him at a "crossroads".
He is said to be considering his options regarding his longer-term plans.
Queen Victoria instituted the Royal Victorian Order in 1896.


Five Americans have each been sentenced to 10 years in jail by a court in Pakistan after being found guilty of terrorism charges, prosecutors say.

The five men - aged between 18 and 25 - were convicted of conspiring to commit terrorist attacks on Pakistani soil and of funding banned jihadist groups.
They were arrested in the north-eastern city of Sargodha in December.
The case is one of several involving alleged "home-grown" American Muslim militants linked to Pakistan.
The men have been identified as Ramy Zamzam, of Egyptian descent, Waqar Khan and Umar Farooq of Pakistani descent, and Aman Hassan Yemer and Ahmed Minni, who are of Ethiopian descent.
None were known to law enforcement agencies before they disappeared in November from their homes in Alexandria, Virginia.
After the young men went missing one of their families found a farewell video message said to have shown scenes of war and calls for Muslims to be defended. This prompted their families to contact the US authorities.
By Syed Shoaib HasanBBC News, Karachi
The convictions will come as no great surprise to those following the case in Pakistan.
Anti-terrorism courts in Pakistan  are usually sympathetic to the police, particularly as the country's anti-terrorism law gives more weight to circumstantial evidence. However, such convictions are usually overturned by higher courts in accordance with regular Pakistan law which brings out the deficiency in investigation.
The hearings can continue for years, long after pressure to get a sentence has passed. In recent times, several such high-profile terrorism verdicts have been overturned by superior courts. Therefore there is much hope yet for the Sargodha five, and their case is by no means over.
Later, when the families learned their sons were staying in Sargodha, at the house of a relative of one of the group, they gave the location to the FBI.
Prosecutors said the men were intending to travel to Afghanistan to fight alongside the Taliban, and that they had also used e-mail and YouTube to contact an al-Qaeda operative called Sayfullah.
When they were arrested, they were in possession of maps of sensitive locations, suggesting attacks were being planned, prosecutors added.
The five men denied having any links to al-Qaeda and insisted they wanted to go to Afghanistan solely for charity work.
They also accused US FBI and Pakistani investigators of torturing them and trying to frame them. Officials have denied the accusations.
The judge found them guilty of two charges but acquitted them of three others.
He handed down two prison terms for each man - 10 years for criminal conspiracy and five for funding a banned terrorist organisation - which are to be served concurrently. They were also fined a total of $820.
A lawyer for the men, Hassan Katchela, said they would appeal.
"We are a bit surprised because we believed there was not a case for conviction," he told reporters. "We are confident and we are going to file appeals against these convictions in the high court."
Khalid Farooq, the Pakistani father of Umar Farooq, vowed to pursue an appeal as long as was necessary.
"It is a matter of great disappointment. We were not expecting it," he told reporters of the verdict outside the jail in Sargodha.
"We will go to every forum, from the high court to the international court. We will file an appeal in Lahore high court in seven days."
However, Deputy Prosecutor Rana Bakhtiar said he planned to seek longer sentences.


Russian gas firm Gazprom has confirmed it has halted gas supplies to Ukraine after a breakdown on pricing talks.

It comes a day after Ukraine's state energy firm Naftogaz announced it was suspending gas purchases from Russia.
That announcement came after EU-brokered talks aimed at keeping supplies running for three to six months broke down without agreement.
Gazprom said it halted the supply because Ukraine did not make an "advance payment" for July's delivery.
CEO Alexei Miller said Russia stopped delivering gas to Ukraine at 10:00 local time (07:00 GMT) on Wednesday.
"Gazprom won't deliver gas to Ukraine at any price without prepayment," he was quoted by Russian media as saying.
Naftogaz said on Tuesday: "Since the additional agreement between Naftogaz and Gazprom is expiring on 30 June, and the terms of further Russian gas deliveries to Ukraine were not agreed at today's trilateral talks in Vienna, Naftogaz is suspending purchases from the Russian company."
The Ukrainian firm said it would continue transporting Russian gas supplies to other European customers.
It is the second time in a year that Russian fuel supplies have stopped running to Ukraine.
Russia cut off gas supplies in June 2014 as the conflict between the government in Kiev and pro-Russian rebels in the east of Ukraine escalated.
It also hiked prices after Ukraine's Kremlin-backed leader Viktor Yanukovych was ousted in February 2014.
For the past year, the European Union, which mediated at the price negotiations in Vienna, has forged a series of temporary agreements that need to be renewed every three months.
Ukraine consumes about 50bn cubic metres (bcm) of gas per year, producing about 20bcm but importing the rest.
On average, Kiev experiences four months a year when the average temperature is below 0C.
The two countries have fought several gas price wars in past years with Russia cutting supplies in 2006 and in the winter of 2008-09.


Mexico expects to extradite drug lord Joaquin "El Chapo" Guzman to the United States by February, the country's top security official says.

But Guzman can appeal any decision to extradite him and his lawyers say they will "fight until the end".
He faces multiple charges in the US, including drug trafficking and murder.
The leader of the notorious Sinaloa drug cartel is being held in a maximum security prison in Ciudad Juarez, near the US border.
He was arrested in January after six months on the run following his escape through a tunnel in his jail cell.
He had already escaped a maximum security facility once before, spending 13 years at large.
Renato Sales Heredia, Mexico's national security commissioner, said in a TV interview that the government hoped to extradite the cartel boss "in January or February".
But lawyer Jose Refugio Rodriguez said there were too many appeals pending for the extradition to happen so quickly.
"That's not enough time," Mr Rodriguez said, adding that the only way to send Guzman to the US by early next year would be "to take him out [of jail] by force".
Mexico agreed to transfer Guzman in May after the US guaranteed he would not face the death penalty.
A judge began reviewing the case last month, but it is unclear when a ruling will be announced.


Impress your family and friends this Easter weekend with some of these chocolate egg nests.

25 March 2016 Last updated at 06:45 GMT
These colourful treats are simple to make and only use five ingredients (see below).
Watch Martin's guide to how to make them.
Always make sure you have an adult with you when you're cooking in the kitchen.
225g/8oz plain chocolate, broken into pieces
2 tbsp golden syrup
50g/2oz butter
75g/3oz cornflakes
36 mini chocolate eggs


Police in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh have been left red-faced after charging a toddler with theft.

Two-year-old Ravi had been named in a police complaint along with three men, one of whom was his relative.
Police attempted to arrest the toddler on Tuesday - causing his alarmed father to take Ravi to the district court, where he explained the situation to senior police officers, reports said.
Ravi's name was taken off the complaint after the senior officers intervened.
A theft had been reported from Bajehra village in Sitapur district on 20 September, police said.
On the basis of a complaint by the victim and other villagers, police registered a case against four men, including the boy, the Press Trust of India reported.
All four were accused of "theft", "trespassing at night" and "dishonestly receiving stolen property". It is not clear why Ravi's name was included in the initial complaint.
The three accused adults have already been arrested and lodged in jail.
Under Indian law, police cannot file a criminal case against a child below seven years of age, but there have been several instances in the past when police have done so.
Last year, two policemen were suspended for charging a one-year-old child with "coercion" ahead of a by-election, also in the state of Uttar Pradesh.
In 2011, a five-year-old boy in Bihar state was charged with disrupting the peace during village council elections. Police later said it was a case of mistaken identity and they meant to charge his elder brother with disorderly conduct.
In 2006, the Bihar police charged a six-year-old girl with attacking them and helping her father escape from police custody.
And in neighbouring Pakistan, a nine-month-old boy was accused of planning a murder, threatening police and interfering in state affairs.


Crystal Palace's Ibrahim Kargbo Junior admits match-fixing allegations against his father are making him doubt whether he would ever play for Sierra Leone.

Kargbo senior has always denied 2014 allegations of match-fixing made by the Sierra Leone Football Association.
The 17-year-old's father is a former Leone Stars captain and now plays for non-league English side Dulwich Hamlet.
"I really don't know if I'd play [for Sierra Leone] as what they've done to my dad is not nice," he told BBC Sport.
"You never know we'll see what God wants."
Kargbo Jnr could also play for Belgium after he moved to Europe at the age of eight to join his father who was playing professionally and secured citizenship.
Father and son were talking after a pre-season friendly on Tuesday between their two teams although the pair did not take to the pitch at the same time.
Kargbo senior says he will not pressure his son about any international commitments he has to make in the future.
"What they've done to me is bad but I won't decide my son's future. He can decide his future for himself," Kargbo senior insisted.
"My wish for him as a father is to be in a place where he'll be happy. If playing for Belgium will make him a globally successful player then why not."
"Everyone wants to see his son successful and become a winner."
"But you never know what'll come out of Sierra Leone. Maybe things will change for good but I don't see it coming soon."
Kargbo senior enjoyed the bragging rights on Tuesday as his Dulwich Hamlet side won the match 2-1.
"See him playing against my team is also something special for me. This is something I'll never forget in my life," he added
"Having a son like this developing so fast makes me a proud dad."
Kargbo Junior paid tribute to his father as well
"I've learnt a lot from my dad because he's like a role model to me," he added.
"I have always wanted to learn from him as he's been there and he knows what it takes to be a professional.
"What I admire about him is that he behaves like a professional on and off the pitch and I'm really proud of him."
Kargbo junior joined Crystal Palace last season from Reading and has been playing for their under-18 team.
"My target is to play Premier League football this coming season for my team even if it's for few minutes, that would be really good for me," he said.
"I want to score lot of goals whether that's for the Crystal Palace under-18, under-23 or first team. I know I'm capable of doing it for the first team."


House prices in Northern Ireland continued to rise in the third quarter of this year, but at a slower rate.

Prices were up to 5.4% compared to the same quarter in 2015 - in the previous four quarters the annual rise was more than 7%.
Compared to the second quarter of this year, prices were almost flat, rising by just 0.8%.
The figures are from the NI Residential Property Price Index, which analyses almost all sales, including cash deals.
The average standardised price, across all property types, is just over Â£124,000.
The biggest annual rise in the third quarter was in the Antrim and Newtownabbey council district where prices were up by 7.3%.
The smallest annual rise was in Ards and North Down where prices were up by 2.1%
Among property types the biggest annual rise was for terraces, up by 7.1%.
The smallest annual rise was for apartments which were up by 4%.
The number of deals completed in the third quarter was 5,200.


This year's Royal British Legion Poppy Appeal is calling on members of the public to recognise younger veterans and serving soldiers.

The charity says people commonly associate Remembrance and the poppy with older, World War Two veterans.
The "rethink Remembrance" campaign will launch with a video installation in London, featuring four videos of young veterans' experiences.
It comes as some charities have said younger veterans are being forgotten.
The Royal British Legion said the aim of the campaign was to challenge common perceptions.
Its survey of 1,000 adults found most only associate the poppy, Remembrance and the charity's work with the two World Wars and elderly veterans.
Only just over a third of those surveyed identified Remembrance with thinking about those who are currently serving.
In the charity's videos, World War Two veterans aged between 88 and 97 tell a story of conflict or injury.
But it is later revealed in the videos that the stories are not their own, and actually belong to the younger veterans or service personnel.
The younger people featured in the videos are:
Stewart Harris, from Rhyl, served in the 1st Battalion Welsh for 13 years and has post-traumatic stress disorder.
He suffered brain damage and was left blind in his right eye and partially deaf after the Mastiff vehicle he was travelling in was hit by an IED in Afghanistan in 2012.
His story is read in the video by 92-year-old World War Two Royal Naval veteran Roy Miller.
Mr Miller tells the camera: "I was so low, I was shouting at the kids, getting angry at my wife - I begged her to leave me.
"I felt alone, helpless. I was taught that soldiers don't discuss feelings.
"So I walked into the waves. I can still feel the water around my feet. And suddenly, I had this vision of my girls - they saved me.
"I stopped, walked home, and got help."
This year's fundraising target for the Poppy Appeal has been set at a record amount of Â£43m, and 150,000 collectors will aim to hand out more than 45 million poppies across the country.
Claire Rowcliffe, director of fundraising at the Royal British Legion, said: "Individuals and families from across the generations of our Armed Forces community need the Legion's support, as well as our older veterans.
"When you pin on your poppy, or pause to remember, we're inviting you to rethink Remembrance and who it is you picture when you think of a veteran.
"We hope through our campaign this year we will help people understand who they are supporting when they donate."
The video installation in Paternoster Square, near St Paul's Cathedral, will be open to the public from 27 to 29 October.


A judge has rejected an Alabama law that puts teenage girls seeking abortions through a court-like process with a lawyer representing the foetus.

The 2014 law requires pregnant girls who want abortions without parental consent to notify a district attorney.
But a federal judge sided with the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) and ruled the law unconstitutional and a violation of a girl's privacy.
The state argued it was intended to determine a minor's maturity.
State lawyers also contended the law was still a "confidential, and expeditious option for a teenager who seeks an abortion without parental consent".
The law granted judges the power to appoint a lawyer for the foetus, known as guardian ad litem, and allowed prosecutors to question the girl to decide whether she's mature enough for an abortion during a trial-like proceeding.
The ACLU argued that process allowed prosecutors to call to witness a girl's parents, teachers or friends to help determine if she is too immature to have an abortion, which could subject them to physical or mental abuse.
Since 1987, girls aged under 18 in the state must get permission from her parents before she can get an abortion, but a judicial bypass was available if the girl could show her mental maturity in cases which involved abuse.
The legislation in 2014 mean parents or a legal guardian could appeal against the judicial bypass, thereby delaying the procedure until the girl could no longer seek an abortion.
US Magistrate Judge Susan Russ Walker on Friday said the law unconstitutionally placed "an undue burden on a minor in Alabama who seeks an abortion through a judicial bypass" and breaches confidentiality by involving other people from her life.
It is unclear how many cases have been tried under the law, but Judge Walker said earlier this summer a district attorney objected to an abortion request by a 12-year-old girl who had been raped by an adult relative.
The girl was 13 weeks pregnant when she appeared before a family court judge, records show.
A judge granted the abortion on 27 June and a district attorney appealed against the decision the same day.
However, the Alabama Court of Civil Appeals sided with the girl on 12 July.
The ACLU, which represented the Montgomery abortion clinic Reproductive Health Services in the lawsuit, hailed the decision as "a victory for women, for young people, and for reproductive health in Alabama".
The Alabama attorney general's office, which defended the law, said in a statement on Monday it was reviewing the ruling.


Wales finished the Commonwealth Youth Games with 13 medals as boxer Sammy Lee added a second gold on the final day of competition in the Bahamas.

The 18-year-old defeated Scotland's Lewis Johnstone in the 81kg final.
It was Wales's fourth boxing medal of the Games - adding to their four in the pool, one in the rugby 7s and two each in athletics and tennis.
Swansea swimmer Lewis Fraser won 100m butterfly gold, adding to his earlier bronze in the 50m butterfly.
Wales finished 10th in the medal table.


The Great British Bake Off will move to Channel 4 after the BBC lost the contract with the company who make the hit programme.

It's thought that Channel 4 offered more money to Love Productions who make Bake Off.
This year's series, which is currently airing every Wednesday evening, will be the last to be shown on the BBC.
It's not known yet whether the presenters or two judges, Mary Berry and Paul Hollywood, will move with the show to Channel 4.
It's not known yet if there will be any changes to the format of the programme. But it's likely that the show will now have one or more advert breaks in it.
Jay Hunt, who is Channel 4's chief creative officer, said: "Channel 4 is very proud to be the new home for The Great British Bake Off.
"I'm delighted we have been able to partner with the hugely talented team at Love Productions to keep this much loved show on free-to-air television."
The BBC said: "Working with Love Productions, we have grown and nurtured the programme over seven series and created the huge hit it is today.
"We made a very strong offer to keep the show but we are a considerable distance apart on the money. The BBC's resources are not infinite."
Bake Off was 2015's most-watched programme, with 15.1 million viewers for the final, according to viewing figures.
It's also won a total of nine Bafta awards.


Three more suspected al-Qaeda militants have been killed in a drone strike in southern Yemen, local officials say.

The men were travelling in a car in Shabwa province early on Monday when it was hit by a missile and destroyed.
Witnesses told the AFP news agency that a helicopter arrived soon afterwards to retrieve their bodies, suggesting one might have been a senior militant.
More than 40 militants are now believed to have been killed in a series of drone strikes over the past three days.
On Sunday, drones fired missiles at al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula (AQAP) training camps in the remote, mountainous area of Wadi Ghadina, in the neighbouring province of Abyan, killing about 30.
An official source at the High Security Committee was cited by the state news agency, Saba, as saying those targeted were "leading and dangerous elements" of al-Qaeda and were of various nationalities.
The operation was based on "certain intelligence information that terrorist elements were training in those camps and planning to target vital civilian and military facilities", the official added.
On Saturday, a drone strike on a lorry in the central province of Bayda killed another 10 suspected militants and three civilians, according to Saba. Officials said intelligence had suggested that AQAP planned to attack military and civilian sites in the city of Bayda.
The US carries out drone strikes in Yemen in support of the government's efforts to tackle AQAP and its allies, but typically does not comment.
The attacks come days after a video was posted online showing AQAP leader Nasser al-Wuhayshi telling a large gathering of militants in Yemen that the jihadist group would fight Western "Crusaders" everywhere.
"O brothers, the Crusader enemy is still shuffling his papers, so we must remember that we are always fighting the biggest enemy, the leaders of disbelief, and we have to overthrow those leaders, we have to remove the Cross, and the carrier of the Cross is America," he declared.
On Sunday, the chairman of the House of Representatives Committee on Homeland Security, Michael McCaul, said AQAP posed "probably the greatest external threat" to the US.
"And so I think the fact the administration now is going aggressively against these terrorists... is a very positive sign," he told ABC News.


Looking back on his more than 50 years in the hotels business, Isadore "Issy" Sharp is modest about his achievements.

"I've been fortunate to be a reasonable success," says the 85-year-old Canadian.
Mr Sharp's definition of "reasonable success" must be different to most people's, because he is the founder of the Four Seasons Hotels chain.
Starting with just one hotel in Toronto in 1960, the company he grew today runs 99 hotels in 33 countries, and enjoys annual revenues of more than $4bn (Â£3.1bn).
And despite Mr Sharp being halfway through his ninth decade, he remains the company's hands-on chairman.
"I still participate in the approval process of the hotels we're building, aesthetics and architectural concepts, and changes occurring in the company - they still come across my desk for final approval," he says.
In establishing a global network of hotels that have become a household name, Mr Sharp has never made his formula for success a secret. He says it is all down to offering the best possible service, which - crucially - he says is only possible if staff are happy.
"It comes down to one principle that transcends time and geography, religion and culture," he says. "It's the golden rule - do unto others as you would want done to you.
"It is the simple idea that if you treat people well, the way you would like to be treated, they will do the same."
Easy to say but harder to implement, cynics might say. But Fortune magazine has named Four Seasons as one of the 100 Best Companies to Work For every year since its list began in 1998.
Four Seasons is also well known for having one of the lowest staff turnover rates in the hotel industry.
Born in Toronto in 1931 to Polish parents who had emigrated to Canada via the then British Mandate for Palestine, Mr Sharp gained a degree in architecture, and started his working life in his father's construction business.
After building a hotel for a client, and noting its swift success, Mr Sharp decided to construct his own.
But with no experience of the hotel industry, he couldn't find anyone to lend him the money he needed.
He says: "I just couldn't understand why people didn't see it as a good idea.
"In the evenings after work I'd be promoting and talking to people, to buy into this idea. It took five years to find all the investors.
"When you have a passion, a belief about something, it allows you to persevere."
Even with backers on board, Mr Sharp couldn't afford a posh address, instead he built the first Four Seasons hotel in a down-at-heel part of downtown Toronto.
He says: "I needed a lot of land, and that seedy area where prostitutes plied their trade was the only part of town where I could buy a lot of land that was quite cheap."
Despite its location, the hotel - which opened in 1960 - was quickly a success, and soon Mr Sharp opened a second.
Within a decade the company was expanding overseas, growing at an average pace of two hotels per year. Aimed at the luxurious top of the market, the hotels remain not cheap to stay in, but Mr Sharp says people will always pay more for luxurious surroundings, and better service.
Adding that he is always looking at additional things to offer guests, Four Seasons was among the first hotel companies to introduce complimentary shampoo, 24-hour room service, and same-day clothes cleaning and pressing.
"From day one until today, it was about being innovative," says Mr Sharp.
It wasn't all plain sailing for the business though, as the firm found itself in some financial difficulty during the mid-1970s recession that followed the 1973 oil crisis.
The resulting high inflation meant that Four Seasons couldn't afford to pay back the money it had borrowed to build a hotel in Vancouver.
Mr Sharp was ultimately able to renegotiate the deal, but the scare meant that he changed the company's financial model.
Whereas previously it paid for and built its own hotels, from that point on it switched to operating hotels that had been funded and constructed by real estate owners and developers. Under the agreements, Four Seasons leads the design of the new property, and runs it with near total control.
The next big change came in 1986 when the business floated on the stock market, until in 2007 it was bought by Microsoft founder Bill Gates and Prince Al-Waleed bin Talal of Saudi Arabia.
They paid $3.8bn for 95% of the company, split equally, while Mr Sharp maintained a 5% stake.
Mr Sharp continued as chief executive until 2010, when he switched to the role of chairman.
According to Tony Pollard, president of the Hotel Association of Canada, "Four Seasons' success is attributed to one factor and one factor only, and that is Isadore Sharp.
"He has always been exceedingly attentive to detail, namely guest wishes and desires. This has translated over the years into outstanding guest service which the world has come to appreciate and expect at Four Seasons."
Mr Sharp says he could not have achieved anything without the support of his wife of 60 years, Rosalie.
"Over the years I was working six, seven days a week, very long hours," says Mr Sharp. "I married someone who did a good job picking up on things I slipped up on.
"In dealing with personal life, time with family, I wasn't always there when I should have been. But these are the choices we make, and at the time I didn't have the maturity or option."
Looking ahead, Mr Sharp admits that he is more able to enjoy the fruits of his labours, stealing away a little time for tennis or a game of  bridge with his wife.
But he says he still cares as much as he always did about Four Seasons.
"I help in keeping the company moving in a direction that is developing the brand, preserving our existing partnerships, and making sure our new partners can elevate the business."


An off-duty policewoman from County Tyrone has been sentenced to nine years in jail for causing a fatal crash while twice over the legal alcohol limit.

Eilish MacSherry, 41, admitted causing the death of 49-year-old father of two Paul Mills by dangerous driving and drink driving in October 2015.
She will serve four-and-a half years in prison and the remainder on licence.
She also pleaded guilty to failing to stop following a collision with another car just before the fatal crash.
A prosecution lawyer said "had she stopped at the time she would have saved the life of Mr Mills and not put anyone else in danger.
The court heard that cars had to swerve out of her way as she entered the 40mph limit on the Clanabogan Road at a speed of over 80mph on the wrong side of the carriageway before colliding head on with Mr Mill's stationary car.
She was also found to have taken a number of prescription drugs which would have significantly impaired her driving.
A defence lawyer said the accident should never have happened and that "a life has been lost that should never have been lost."
He said his client accepted she was "entirely responsible" and "she offers her deepest regret and the most fulsome apology she can".
He said MacSherry, of Brookmount Heights in Omagh, had been a serving police officer from a Catholic background describing her as "a role model for the new police service and had dedicated her life to community policing in Belleek and Kesh".
The judge read the victim impact report from Paul Mills' widow Anne which described how her "whole world turned upside down with two policemen at the door".
Mrs Mills wrote that telling her children was "the hardest thing I have ever had to do.
"The screams of one, and the quiet sobs of the other will stay with me for the rest of my life."
"Their idyllic childhood was brought to an abrupt end by a person who should not have been driving that night."
The defence lawyer said MacSherry had been a "chronic alcohol addict" for two years and had suffered from the breakdown of her marriage in the days before the crash.
At the time of the accident she was wearing her pyjamas, dressing gown and slippers and had no recollection of what happened.


A murder inquiry is under way following the death of a man who was knocked down by a car outside a city centre hotel.

Alex Jeffery, 21, was hit after being involved in a fight outside the Cambridge City Hotel, on Downing Street, on 1 November, police said.
Mr Jeffery, of Orchard Road in Melbourn, was taken to hospital but died from his injuries a week later.
A post-mortem examination is due to take place in the next few days.
In a statement, Mr Jeffery's family said he was a "fun loving, kind and caring son, grandson and brother".
Det Ch Insp Jerome Kent, who is leading the investigation, said he believed some people had seen what happened during the incident at 03:40 GMT but had not yet spoken to police.
"In particular I am keen to speak to the two security guards who came to Alex's aid," he said.
"I would also urge anyone who may have been travelling in the car involved in this incident or knows who the driver is to come forward.
"This is a devastating and traumatic time for the family and is it vital we catch the person responsible."


Urgent work is needed to rebuild the relationship between Scotland's teachers and the country's exam body, according to MSPs.

Holyrood's education committee said it had heard "eye-opening" accounts of unclear guidance and mistakes in exam papers.
A survey of teachers carried out by the committee suggested two-thirds had little trust in the SQA.
Its report made a series of recommendations for improvement.
Much of the criticism of the Scottish Qualification Authority (SQA) stems from perceived problems around the introduction of new exams, including National 4 and 5 and the new Higher.
It has included concerns over last year's Higher geography exam, which was described as "poor, shocking, terrible, worst ever and nothing like the specimen or previous paper" by members of the Scottish Association of Geography Teachers.
The SQA also admitted a series of mistakes in the national 5 computing science exam.
And in 2015, the pass mark for Higher maths was dropped to just 34%, and to 60% for an A grade, with the SQA admitting the exam had been too hard.
The education committee's report said the SQA had produced qualifications that had led to an "onerous workload, a breakdown in trust and threats of industrial action by teachers".
It said it had received clear evidence pointing to a breakdown in the trust of the SQA by teachers.
And it raised concerns about exam scripts that either contained errors or were difficult to understand.
Among its key recommendations were:
The report followed scrutiny of four key public bodies charged with developing and implementing education and skills policy - the SQA, the Scottish Funding Council (SFC), Skills Development Scotland (SDS) and Education Scotland.
It also raised concern about the recommended abolition of the SFC as part of moves to put all of the Scottish government's economic agencies under a single national board.
The report questioned the evidence for the change, and called on the Scottish government to carefully consider the impact abolishing the SFC board will have on higher education, including on widening access, before proceeding.
SNP MSP James Dornan, the committee's convenor, said: "The evidence our committee received was nothing less than eye-opening about some of the problems faced by those working so hard on the front line of education.
"We heard first-hand about the time-consuming burden of guidance that has been placed on teachers, something the cabinet secretary has already shown his commitment to deal with.
"However, there continues to be confusing and contradictory messages coming from the very bodies that should be making it easy for our teachers to focus on the needs of our children."
Mr Dornan said the committee had told the organisations concerned "in no uncertain terms" how their actions impact on teachers.
He added: "The committee found it hard to understand how, in particular, the SQA has met the needs of Scotland's learners having designed qualifications that have created a huge workload for teachers and led to a breakdown in trust and threats of industrial action."
The SQA thanked the committee for its recommendations, which it said would now be studied in detail.
A spokesman said: "Our relationship with teachers is critically important to the successful delivery of Scotland's qualifications system and every year 15,000 teachers work with us as appointees.
"We are committed to addressing the committee's findings, especially in this period of change, and are working to continue to improve our communication with the wider community.
"We are already streamlining the documentation associated with the qualifications as new arrangements are rolled out.
"We are keenly aware of our responsibility to establish and maintain the standard and quality of qualifications for the benefit of learners across Scotland."


A diver rescued in the Pentland Firth could have been found much sooner if local advice had been followed, a fisherman has claimed.

Hamish Mowatt said he phoned the coastguard three times, telling them they were searching in the wrong place.
The diver was rescued on Thursday after spending 11 hours in the water.
The Maritime and Coastguard Agency (MCA) said the search took into account information from planning software as well as local knowledge.
The diver, 40-year old Ivan Doychev from Bulgaria, was reported missing by the dive boat "Fair Morn" just before 17:30 on Wednesday.
He was eventually rescued by a passing sail training vessel after spending more than 11 hours in the water.
Mr Mowatt, from South Ronaldsay, has fished in the Pentland Firth for more than 40 years.
He told BBC Radio Orkney that the diver had been found "despite the search operation not because of it".
But the MCA said: "Both the Coastguard helicopter from Sumburgh and the Thurso Lifeboat covered the area in which the diver was later found."
Mr Mowatt said resources were redeployed to the wrong area after he had advised search teams that the diver would be found between Duncansby Head and the Pentland Skerries.
"Everybody went west, when the man was going east. It's that simple.
"The guy was lucky. He was found. But he could have been found at seven o'clock at night.
"I told the Thurso lifeboat where to go, and they were told by Shetland Coastuard 'No. Turn around. Go west.'"
In a statement, the agency said it provided "a consistent approach to search and rescue operations regardless of the geographical location of its co-ordination centres".
The MCA said its policy was "to review all incidents as a matter of routine to ensure it remains an effective and efficient emergency service".
Ivan Doychev said he was kept going by the sight of helicopters and boats searching for him as he drifted in the Pentland Firth.
He said he hopes to go back to his work as a scallop diver in Orkney this weekend despite his ordeal.


Adrian Lewis claimed the final Premier League play-off place as Dutch favourite Michael van Gerwen clinched top spot in the table in Rotterdam.

Double world champion Lewis defeated Gary Anderson 7-2 to take the last top-four spot ahead of Peter Wright.
He will face Van Gerwen, who beat Phil Taylor 7-5 to collect a £25,000 league leader's bonus, in the semi-finals.
Taylor will play defending champion Anderson in the other last-four tie at London's O2 Arena on 19 May.
Van Gerwen's narrow victory over his closest rival Taylor capped a superb evening for the home crowd, as the Netherlands staged a round of Premier League matches for the first time.
Robert Thornton 3-7 James Wade
Peter Wright 6-6 Raymond van Barneveld
Adrian Lewis 7-2 Gary Anderson
Phil Taylor 5-7 Michael van Gerwen


A man has died after his car was hit by a train on a level crossing in Gloucestershire.

The vehicle was struck by the Great Western Railway London Paddington to Cheltenham Spa service at 15:10 GMT.
The man, who was believed to have been driving the car, died at the scene of the crash in the Frampton Mansell area, British Transport Police (BTP) said.
No-one else was injured in the crash and officers are investigating the circumstances.
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BBC reporter Jason Dean, who is at the scene, said passengers were taken off the train in small groups, spoken to by police, and then taken to a nearby pub or reunited with relatives who have come to collect them.
"Officers are now working to identify the man and inform his family and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch have been notified of this incident," a BTP spokesman said.
The accident happened at the same crossing where a trail biker Paul Martin, 37, from Stroud, died in May 2014.
A report by the Rail Accident Investigation Branch found he may not have heard the train's warning horn because he was wearing a crash helmet.
The crossing, a metal gate at the end of a field leading to railway tracks, is a "user-worked level crossing", meaning people wishing to cross the line have to contact a signaller using a dedicated phone to get permission.
Trains passing through the crossing are permitted to travel at up to 50mph, Network Rail said.


An MP who backed moves to scrap Parliament's centuries-old tradition of printing laws on calf skin has admitted he "made a mistake".

A Commons committee has said official copies of Acts of Parliament should be printed on archive paper to save money.
But member David Amess, Southend West MP, told the BBC he had had "second thoughts" and vellum should remain.
Fellow member James Gray, MP for North Wiltshire, said switching to paper would save "very little money, if any".
He was late for the meeting in October when the Commons Administration Committee decided to back a call from Lord Laming that Acts of Parliament should be recorded on "high-quality archive paper" instead of the vellum.
It said specialised printing on vellum cost too much and top quality archive paper could last for 500 years.
Lord Laming said the "slightly over Â£100,000 per year" cost of vellum could not be justified, when archival paper was "superior for print quality". An online database of legislation is also kept.
The change must be agreed in the House of Commons, which rejected a previous bid to ditch vellum in 1999.
Now one committee member has changed his mind.
"I should have given more careful consideration to what we had been asked to decide upon. I now believe that I made a mistake in not voicing my concerns then," Mr Amess told BBC Sunday Politics West.
"It's very precious and is at the heart of the United Kingdom's tradition as being the mother of all parliaments."
Paul Wright, manager of vellum manufacturer William Cowley, said he was "gobsmacked" at the committee's decision. He calculated the average yearly cost at nearer Â£47,000.
North Wiltshire MP Mr Gray said vellum would last for 5,000 years at least and "can be kept in an ordinary cupboard" while paper would require "a new archive centre" with environmental controls to stop it degrading.
"I can't think why it is that this committee in Parliament are thinking about changing something that's done perfectly well for 1,000 years. It's a real piece of Parliamentary history," he said.


The Greens have launched an "MP pledge card" on the last day of the election campaign that promises to "keep out the Tories and keep Labour in line".

Leader Natalie Bennett said the Greens offered British people "a chance to vote for real change".
Green candidates are standing in 571 seats - up from the 335 contested in 2010 - yet the party has only one MP, Caroline Lucas, in Brighton Pavilion.
Ms Bennett insisted that her party will "stand up for what matters".
She spoke out ahead of a visit to a Bristol food distribution centre with cook and blogger Jack Monroe, who has switched her allegiance from Labour to the Greens.
Poverty gap
"In less than 24 hours, people in Britain have a chance to vote for real change and to elect more Green MPs into the House of Commons," Ms Bennett said.
"Those Green MPs will do all they can to keep out the Tories, and they'd hold a Labour minority government to account on issues like austerity, climate change and investment in our health service."
Ms Bennett, on the campaign trail with Darren Hall, her party's candidate in Bristol West, was critical of the fact so many people were having to resort to using food banks. A list of the candidates standing in Bristol West can be found here.
"One of the defining issues of this election is the gaping gap between rich and poor in this country," she said.
"We have 147 billionaires in the same country where one million people need food banks to feed their families.
"Only the Greens are putting forward the bold solutions we desperately need to tackle inequality in Britain.
"That means a living wage of Â£10 an hour by 2020, a welfare state that truly supports people and a tax system which ensures that the richest individuals and largest corporations pay their fair share," added Ms Bennett, who is standing in Holborn and St Pancras.
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Extreme heat drove a koala in the southern Australian city of Adelaide to slake its thirst from a drain.

Adelaide sweltered through four consecutive days of 40C-plus temperatures until rain on Sunday brought cooler weather.
Paul Jansen was driving to a Christmas carols event on Sunday when he spotted the thirsty marsupial.
Mr Jansen, who filmed the incident, told the BBC he was amazed by the amount of water it was drinking.
"It didn't mind the attention or the road noise, it was just focused on the drink," Mr Jansen said.
"They don't usually drink so much water, it's usually extreme cases."
Fauna Rescue of South Australia volunteer Anne Bigham said the organisation took around 60 calls about koalas every day during the heatwave.
She said it was hard to determine whether a koala was heat-stressed or suffering renal failure, a kidney disease common in South Australian koalas.
The koala in the video likely left its tree because it was feeling ill and took the opportunity to rehydrate at the drain, she said.
"I think they're just feeling so rotten that they come down to the ground," she said.


Three men have been arrested in connection with a fatal shooting in County Limerick on Saturday.

A 51-year-old man died after he was shot in the head at a motorcycle club in Mountfune, a rural area outside the village of Murroe.
It is believed a number of people were at the club when a man approached the victim and fired at least one shot.
The man was rushed to hospital, but was later pronounced dead.
It is understood the victim was from the area.
Police said it was too early to say what the motive was, and they are investigating a number of lines of inquiry, however, they do not believe it was gang-related.
The three men who were arrested were detained in the Limerick area late on Saturday night.
Two are in their late 40s and the other in his 20s.


Five tiny Pacific islands have disappeared amid rising seas and erosion, Australian researchers say.

The missing islands, part of the Solomon Archipelago, were not inhabited by human beings.
But six other islands were found to have seen swathes of land turn into sea, destroying entire villages.
The researchers say it is the first scientific confirmation of the impact of climate change on Pacific coastlines.
The study, published in Environmental Research Letters, looked at 33 islands using aerial and satellite imagery from 1947 to 2014, combined with historical insight and local knowledge.
It found that the archipelago had seen sea levels rise as much as as 10mm (0.4in) every year for the past two decades.
The five that have vanished were all vegetated reef islands of up to five hectares (12 acres) in size that were occasionally used by fishermen but not populated.
"They were not just little sand islands", leader author Simon Albert said.
One of the six islands that have been heavily eroded is Nuatambu Island, home to 25 families. The research says it has lost 11 houses and half its inhabitable area since 2011.
The researchers say their study is the first that scientifically "confirms the numerous anecdotal accounts from across the Pacific of the dramatic impacts of climate change on coastlines and people".
However, the report stresses that the inundation does not result from rising sea levels alone.
It found that shoreline recession was substantially worse in areas exposed to high wave energy, and that extreme events and inappropriate development were also factors contributing to the erosion.
The Solomon Islands, a nation made up of hundreds of islands and with a population of about 640,000, lies about 1,000 miles north-east of Australia.
Some communities are already adapting to the changed conditions. Several Nuatambu islanders have moved to a higher neighbouring volcanic island, the study said.
Other people were forced to move on the island of Nararo.
One of them, 94-year-old Sirilo Sutaroti, told researchers: "The sea has started to come inland, it forced us to move up to the hilltop and rebuild our village there away from the sea."
Taro, the capital of Choiseul Province, is set to become the first provincial capital to relocate residents and services.


Viktor Orban's tough approach to the migrant crisis has positioned him as one of Europe's most controversial leaders.

His comments describing the situation as "Germany's problem" and insisting that Hungarians have "the right not to live together with populous Muslim communities" drew strong criticism from EU politicians.
But the Hungarian prime minister has long riled many of his European colleagues with divisive domestic and foreign policies, including close ties with Russia.
Despite forging the country's strongest government since the fall of communism, his democratic and economic credentials have been questioned.
After a surge in the number of refugees entering Hungary he is reaching out to anti-immigrant opinion across Europe.
As a young lawyer, Mr Orban attracted attention on 16 June 1989 by publicly demanding the withdrawal of Soviet forces and the holding of free elections.
According to the CV posted on the official prime ministerial website, he was already a founding member of the Federation of Young Democrats (Fidesz), which he would eventually make Hungary's party of government.
He was elected an MP in the 1990 vote that followed the country's transition to multi-party democracy.
Assuming the leadership of Fidesz in 1993, he moved the party to the right and in 1998 became prime minister at the head of a centre-right coalition.
That first Orban administration took Hungary into Nato and cut inflation while maintaining economic growth.
Hurt by corruption scandals and regarded by some as divisive, it fell after a single term and Mr Orban spent the next eight years in opposition.
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Out of government, Mr Orban was regarded by political analysts as a populist, to the extent that in 2007 the UK's Economist awarded him its "politics of the gutter award", citing his "cynical populism and mystifyingly authoritarian socialist-style policies".
But bickering on the left played into the hands of Mr Orban, and in 2010 Fidesz and its Christian Democrat allies were returned to power with an overall majority.
Mr Orban said his landslide victory represented the desire of Hungarians to "close the chapter of post-communism".
Some view him as a pragmatist; he himself insists he is providing strong, stable political leadership, with policies that reduce bureaucracy and empower individuals as responsible members of society.
He soon embarked on the constitutional and financial reforms that have so antagonised his opponents.
His supporters say he has introduced long-needed structural changes, such as restricting early retirement in the police and military and making the welfare system more transparent.
But critics accuse his government of imposing a conservative agenda on everything, from the media to the economy and religion.
In December 2011 parliament approved a controversial new election law that halved the number of MPs and redrew constituency boundaries. Opponents said it tilted the system in favour of Mr Orban's Fidesz party.
A month later tens of thousands of people took part in protests in Budapest against the measure, branding the prime minister a dictator - or "Viktator".
Another taunt shouted by the crowd was "bovli", or "junk" in Hungarian, mocking the downgrading of the country's credit rating under his premiership.
A central bank law was also passed on 30 December 2011 in defiance of EU and IMF warnings that it would infringe on the bank's independence.
The law would become a key stumbling block in negotiations over the country's massive bailout.
The European Commission - the EU's executive arm - went on to take legal action against the government over reforms to the central bank, data protection and the judiciary.
And in 2013 Hungary's constitutional court struck down the controversial electoral law, saying it restricted voter rights.
More protests have followed, with tens of thousands taking to the streets over corruption allegations and Mr Orban's relationship with Russia.
In 2014, the government approved a â‚¬10bn (Â£8.3bn) deal with Russia over the financing of two new reactors at the Paks nuclear power plant.
Mr Orban went on to criticise EU sanctions imposed on Russia over the Ukraine crisis.
But last December he suffered a serious setback when Russia cancelled its plans for the South Stream gas pipeline - a project which he had backed in defiance of the EU.
His popularity has waned in recent months, with his Fidesz party losing two seats in by-elections this year.
The result saw the far-right party Jobbik win its first ever individual constituency seat in parliament. following moves to woo centrist voters.
With Jobbik set to present a major challenge in Hungary's 2018 parliamentary elections, Mr Orban is keen to appear both powerful and patriotic.
His policy on migration - including the construction of a 175km (109-mile) fence along the border with Serbia - is his latest show of strength.


A woman spotted walking near the A90 in her nightclothes in the early hours of Sunday has been found safe and well.

Police issued an appeal amid concern she might need assistance after the sighting at 02:20 near Stracathro service station in Angus.
A spokesman later confirmed that she had been traced at her home nearby and she was in good health.
Officers thanked the media and public for their help.


China will give official status to all of its "unregistered" citizens, many of them children born illegally under the one-child system,  in plans announced this week.

If implemented at local level, this could change the lives of 13 million Chinese, who will now be allowed access to crucial services like education and health that they were previously excluded from.
Being "unregistered" in China means not having a household registration document, known locally as a hukou.  In more than 60% of cases, those without a hukou were victims of the one-child policy (others are those born out of wedlock or who are homeless). China has announced it will soon move from a one- to a two-child policy. But for the last 37 years, parents in many areas who gave birth to more than one child were required to pay local family planning officials a hefty fine (called a "social maintenance fee").  Most would pay because if they did not, their child would not get a hukou.
The hukou system is a controversial system of household registration required by law in China. It was set up in the late 1950s to control the movement of people between cities and the countryside. It requires all Chinese people to be classed as either urban or rural. Critics have compared it to a caste system, intended to control internal movement and aimed initially at stopping farmers moving to cities.
Gaining a hukou brings with it not only access to schooling and medical treatment but other social benefits too. Anyone wanting to open a bank account, take out medical insurance or get married needs one. You also need a hukou to buy train and plane tickets.
In some ways it's not. According to the Chinese constitution and other laws, all citizens, regardless of family planning policies, have a right to a hukou. But in practice things have worked very differently. The plan announced envisages big change in real terms. This is more of a central government initiative, or directive, to get local governments and especially local family planning units to take note.
There are many theories.
The Ministry of Security says that they are concerned about the effect on social stability. The idea being that millions of undocumented people, often forced into using unofficial or illegal means to get by, is not something any police chief wants to see.
Amnesty International's China expert William Nee says the Chinese government "always uses social stability as a reason for change".
"It could also be down to the amount of criticism the government has been getting  - both domestically and abroad - for a situation which has been a blot on China's record for years."
Unicef China has been campaigning for change in this area for years, particularly as children are amongst those most affected and so "most vulnerable" if they are not registered.
Their chief of communications, Shantha Bloemen, thinks the announcement's timing might also "be linked to this year's five-year plan, to eradicate poverty completely by 2020".
The central government has made previous announcements about hukou reform which have not always been put into place.
But Unicef's Shantha Bloemen said this announcement seemed particularly "significant."
Professor Duan Chengrong of Renmin University, one of the country's leading demographers and advocates of hukou reform, also believes that in this instance the local officials will listen to their superiors.
Well, yes. It is for these 13 million people, many of whom are now middle aged and have lived most of their lives as "unofficial" people. However, there is the additional question of which hukou will they be given. They will want a hukou corresponding to the area where they are living - eg Beijing. But if they are not and are instead given a remote, rural hukou, they will join hundreds of millions of migrant workers and migrant children who have full access to services, but only in their home towns and not in the cities where they reside and earn their living.
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Real Madrid's Gareth Bale has been named in the Wales squad for the Euro 2016 qualifier against Belgium on 16 November.

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Bale had not played since Wales beat Cyprus 2-1 in October, but came off the bench for Real in Tuesday's Champions League win against Liverpool.
Wales manager Chris Coleman hopes Bale, 25, gets more game time for Madrid against Rayo Vallecano on Saturday.
"It will be nice if he gets an hour," said Coleman.
"He'll probably play 90 minutes knowing Gareth and it will do him good just to get that little bit of rhythm back in his play before he joins up with us.
"He looked good coming on against Liverpool, looked quick looked sharp so that's positive."
Coleman's side top Group B going into the match with the World Cup quarter-finalists in Brussels.
Aaron Ramsey and Joe Allen return to the squad following injuries.
Both players missed October's qualifiers against Bosnia-Hercegovina and Cyprus through injury, but have returned to action for their clubs since then.
Allen played 90 minutes for Liverpool against Real Madrid in the Champions League while Arsenal's Ramsey featured against Anderlecht in the same competition.
Three other players who also missed Wales' last two qualifiers, West Ham defender James Collins, Celtic full-back Adam Matthews and Wolves captain Sam Ricketts, return to Coleman's squad.
Wolves midfielder Lee Evans and Newcastle United defender Paul Dummett, who pulled out of the last squad because of injuries, are also included.
Evans is one of four uncapped players in the squad along with goalkeepers Owain Fon Williams of Tranmere and Liverpool's Danny Ward and Leicester City striker Tom Lawrence.
Wales will be without Leicester midfielder Andy King who is suspended and Reading striker Simon Church (damaged collarbone) and Wolves midfielder Dave Edwards (knee ligament damage).
Wales squad: Wayne Hennessey (Crystal Palace), Owain Fôn Williams (Tranmere Rovers ), Danny Ward (Liverpool), Ashley Williams (Swansea City), James Chester (Hull City), James Collins (West Ham United), Ben Davies (Tottenham Hotspur), Paul Dummett (Newcastle United), Neil Taylor (Swansea City), Sam Ricketts (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Chris Gunter (Reading), Adam Matthews (Celtic), Danny Gabbidon (Cardiff City), Emyr Huws (Wigan Athletic), Joe Ledley (Crystal Palace), Joe Allen (Liverpool), Aaron Ramsey (Arsenal), Lee Evans (Wolverhampton Wanderers), Hal Robson-Kanu (Reading), David Cotterill (Birmingham City), George Williams (Fulham), Tom Lawrence (Leicester City), Jake Taylor (Reading), Gareth Bale (Real Madrid)