Liverpool have appointed club legend Steven Gerrard as their Under-18's manager - with the new boss looking to encourage a more "physical" style.

The ex-England captain replaces Neil Critchley, who will manage the U23s.
Gerrard hopes to curb the "show-boating mentality seen throughout academies".
"A lot of kids think they have to do 10 lollipops or Cruyff turns to stand out. We all love a bit of skill and talent but the other side of the game is huge, it is massive" he added.
Gerrard - who made 710 appearances for Liverpool - says he likes streetwise players but says "too many try to model themselves on players like [Cristiano] Ronaldo".
"You have to look at yourself and say, 'What are my strengths and how can I improve my weaknesses?"' he explained.
Gerrard plans to help the "soft" youth players transition from the "comfort zone" of an academy to the professional ranks.
"The kids in our academy are coming into an unbelievable place to work and there is a case where they get a little bit too much, too soon," he added.
"It is a big shock for them when they move on or get released.
"That's what you have to drive into the players: while you are here make the sacrifices and give it your best, don't get too comfortable because the hard work starts when you get out of the academy.
"I've seen a lot of players who have come out of the academy with huge reputations and go into the Melwood dressing room and then it is sink-or-swim and a lot of them sink.
"I have to help these players prepare for careers, not all with Liverpool's first team, but I feel if I can help them compete then it will help their careers depending on what level they get to."
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Gerrard returned to Liverpool as academy coach in February following his retirement from playing last year.
"I have learnt a lot from the coaching staff here already," he said.
"After speaking to Alex [Inglethorpe, Liverpool's academy director], we feel as though it is time to step up.
"Neil has done a fantastic job with the U18s, so I hope I can continue where he left off, encouraging and nurturing players into the U23s and eventually the first team."
Inglethorpe said: "Steven has brought invaluable experience and knowledge to us since joining the Academy, passing on some fantastic advice and guidance to our younger players.
"We both feel now is the perfect time for him to take the next step in his coaching career and manage his own team."
In his time as a player at Anfield, Gerrard scored 186 goals and helped the club win eight major trophies, including the 2005 Champions League final, when his goal inspired Liverpool's comeback against AC Milan.
After leaving Anfield at the end of the 2014-15 season, he moved to LA Galaxy and scored five goals in 34 appearances during two seasons in America before retiring.
He also made 114 England appearances, 38 as captain, putting him fourth in the country's all-time caps list.


A 13-year-old girl has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a man was stabbed to death.

Darren Kelly, 42, from Basildon, Essex, died after he was attacked in the street.
The girl is in custody, police said.
A 20-year-old man, 17-year-old boy and 15-year-old girl, all from Pitsea, and a 16-year-old boy from Basildon have been arrested on suspicion of murder and remain in custody.
A post-mortem examination found Mr Kelly, a lorry driver, was likely to have died from "multiple stab wounds and blood loss", Essex Police said.
His daughter Zoe said she was "heartbroken," adding she and her father were very close and lived a short walk away from each other.
"To know he's not going to be round the corner anymore is very hard," she said.
"I'm sure I can speak for everyone when I say that he's going to be truly missed."
Residents of Caister Drive, where the attack took place, say Mr Kelly rang their doorbells to ask for help after he was stabbed at about 21:30 BST on Tuesday.
Carole Crisp, 56, said: "He managed to get to our block and was just randomly pressing the buzzers for help.
"When I answered he said 'help me I've been stabbed'. I'm just in shock and so sad we couldn't do more."
At the scene: BBC Essex reporter Chris Flynn
Parts of Caister Drive are still sealed off, with much of the investigation centred outside two of the street's blocks of flats.
Since I've been here a lorry has been pumping the drains, with police officers and highways engineers working alongside. I saw someone else come along with a shovel to get what they could out of the drains.
Aside from the police presence, the street is relatively quiet with just the odd passer-by or neighbour coming and going, as people here come to terms with what has happened down their road.


A second dog seized by police was kept locked in kennels for two years without exercise, the BBC has been told.

On Monday it emerged a pit bull named Stella had been kept in a 3ft by 9ft cage for two years without exercise.
Now former kennel workers have released a video showing both Stella and a seized Rottweiler named Vinnie.
Devon and Cornwall Police said "immensely frustrating" delays in the judicial process left Vinnie in kennels for two years before he was destroyed.
The video, taken on the day Vinnie was put down, shows kennel staff playing with Vinnie while Stella, in the kennel next door, rubs noses with the Rottweiler through the metal mesh.
The BBC understands Vinnie had been trained as a guard dog and police said he was used to attack three people in 2013.
He was seized and placed in kennels but the court process took two years before a destruction order was carried out around 26 July 2015.
Former staff at the kennels say Vinnie had a "Do Not Enter" sign on his kennel and, as far as they were aware, was not let out for a period of two years.
Laura Khanlarian, who until December 2015 worked as an assistant at the private kennel used by Devon and Cornwall Police, said: "To move him from one cage to another he just went through the internal doors.
"He wasn't assessed like Stella so he really didn't leave the kennel at all.
"Vinnie had no contact until the day he was put down. I made that video an hour before when we were allowed in his kennel with him."
Another former worker at the kennel, who asked to remain anonymous, said: "Vinnie the Rottie had no human contact except being fed. He was deemed too dangerous to get out.
"But this was the dog that, once he knew you, wagged his tail, pushing himself against the bars, desperate for any attention.
"As far as I know he belonged to a man who trained him as a guard dog. Because he was possibly trained to bite we were told not to walk, go in with him, same as Stella as he was too dangerous."
Former staff at the kennels have told the BBC they offered to work with Vinnie and exercise him but were not given permission to do so.
After the BBC revealed Stella's plight, Devon and Cornwall Police Chief Superintendent Jim Nye said: "The welfare of dogs is extremely important to us.
"In the past year we have seized in the region of 100 dogs, and only Stella has been assessed as too dangerous and unpredictable for kennel staff to walk."
Following the release of the latest video, the force did not say if they or another body had ordered Vinnie - who is understood to not be among the last 100 dogs seized - to be kept without human contact.
However, in a statement they said: "Vinnie the Rottweiler was a dog seized and placed into kennels in 2013.
"Vinnie was a legal breed and was seized after it had bitten three people. Later the courts granted a destruction order on the dog who was put to sleep in the early to mid part of 2015.
"Within the last 100 dogs we have seized only Stella was deemed too dangerous to be exercised and instructions given to the kennel specifically in relation to this.
"It is important to stress that despite the very best effort of the police, the judicial process is not accelerated when a dog is placed in kennels. This is immensely frustrating for the police who hold animal welfare in the highest regard."
No-one from the kennels has commented.


National League Eastleigh are to sign former Republic of Ireland Under-21 stopper Graham Stack as player-goalkeeping coach from 1 January.

The 35-year-old, who previously played at Barnet for now-Eastleigh boss Martin Allen, has signed an 18-month contract.
Stack began his career at Arsenal, making five appearances in the League Cup for the Gunners before spells at Reading, Plymouth and Hibernian.
Allen's side are 12th in the table, 10 points below the top five.


A church leader in west Belfast has said bonfire organisers will have to rethink plans for future bonfires after two terraced homes were gutted during an eleventh night bonfire.

A third house was damaged.
It is thought the fires at Hopewell Square in the Shankill area may have been caused by burning embers being blown through the air by the wind.
Pastor Jack McKee said there was understandable anger with the organisers.
"There's a bit of anger directed at them in so far as there was no preparation for that type of event happening," he said.
"There was no expectation that it would happen.
"Anger is directed a little bit at the fire authorities because it was felt that they, knowing the size of the fire, knowing it was close to the homes, should have been here and doused the houses before the fire even went up."
In response, the Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service (NIFRS) rejected the claims and said its crews had visited the bonfire in Hopewell Square prior to the eleventh night.
"NIFRS crews engaged with bonfire builders, communicating our key bonfire safety messages and agreeing a safe route to the bonfire if NIFRS resources were required to attend any incident at the location," a statement said.
"NIFRS policy is not to deploy or commit operational resources to bonfire locations prior to ignition or before a 999 emergency call has been received by NIFRS regional call centre (RCC).
"NIFRS RCC received multiple 999 emergency calls to a fire in the roof of a terrace house at Hopewell Square at 00.54hrs, appliances were mobile to the incident at 00.55hrs with appliances in attendance at 01.01hrs.
"Our initial fire investigation would indicate the probable cause of the fire to be caused by flying embers from the bonfire rather than radiated heat from the bonfire itself."


Antrim and Armagh will meet in the Ulster Senior Hurling Final for the second year in a row after semi-final wins on Saturday.

Antrim's quest for a 16th title in a row got off to a brilliant start as they beat Donegal 3-24 to 1-10 at Celtic Park.
In Inniskeen, Armagh edged a keenly-contested local derby with Down on a 1-17 to 2-12 scoreline.
The provincial final will be played on Sunday, 16 April.
Donegal led briefly against the Saffrons after a Davin Flynn goal, but James McNaughton's netted 26th-minute reply handed Antrim a lead they would not relinquish.
Antrim led by 2-9 to 1-5 at half-time, with Loughgiel clubman McNaughton firing a second goal in the 32nd minute.
The reigning champions built up a 15-point lead inside 12 minutes of the restart, with Daniel McKernan scoring their third goal.
In the other semi-final, two goals by Malachy Magee helped Down to a 2-5 to 0-7 lead.
Down were reduced to 14 men at this stage, after the dismissal of Caolan Baile in the 25th minute.
A Dylan McKenna goal levelled the tie at 1-10 to 2-7 inside 13 minutes of the restart, with the sides level on three further occasions, until Armagh fired two injury-time points, to ensure a two-point win.


Figures released by the NSPCC in November showed that online or cyber bullying had increased by 88% in the last five years.

15 March 2017 Last updated at 22:08 GMT
With the explosion of social networking that figure could increase, but is it something students and schools are well enough prepared for?
School reporters at St Patrick's College in Maghera have been investigating.
This report was originally broadcast as part of BBC News School Report.
You can find more School Report stories produced by young people in Northern Ireland here.


A Christmas tree in the centre of Larne has been replaced after complaints that it was an "eyesore".

It has been swapped for a more festive offering, ahead of the town's annual tree light switch-on ceremony.
Local people and councillors had taken to Facebook to cry bah-humbug about the "sad-looking tree."
It comes after a festive village tree in Bushmills was removed in 2014 after it was described as "one of the worst ever seen in the UK".
UUP councillor, Mark McKinty, posted a photo of the Larne tree on social media and said: "I'm all for recycling, but when your Christmas tree goes up looking like it's spent a few years on the compost heap, that is a bit much."
Angry comments were also left on the Mid and East Antrim Council's 'Larne Christmas Switch On' page.
Larne resident Ian Stokes, said "for many a year Larne has always been the laughing stock of local councils for their awful trees."
But Mid and East Antrim Council have proven their festive spirit by bringing in a brand new replacement before the local Christmas parade and light switch-on on Friday.
A spokesperson said, "Mid and East Antrim Borough Council has responded to concerns about the condition of the recently erected Christmas tree in Larne.
"Council officers carried out an inspection earlier this week and as a result it has been replaced."
TUV Councillor Ruth Wilson shared news of the replacement on Facebook, with one user replying, "glad to hear the tree is being replaced. The other one was an eyesore."


A woman who suffered burns to 96% of her body in a crash in France has won a £1m-plus settlement.

Catrin Pugh, 22, from Rossett, Wrexham, was returning from a ski season, when a coach burst into flames, killing the driver and injuring passengers.
She was given a one in 1,000 chance of survival, spent three months in a coma and has had 200 operations since the French Alps crash in 2013.
The seven-figure settlement was reached with the owner of the coach firm.
Her bus crashed as it travelled down a steep mountain road which features 21 hairpin bends near Alpe d'Huez, killing the 63-year-old driver.
"I remember being on fire. It's a feeling that's very difficult to describe," she said.
"You just feel very numb everywhere and I have since learned that's because it had burned through my nerve endings."
When she was pulled from the wreckage, medics gave her little chance of surviving, with Ms Pugh describing it as "like a scene from a horror film".
She added: "I thought I was going to die.
"I remember them asking me where it hurt the most and me screaming 'it hurts everywhere'."
Ms Pugh, who was 19 at the time, is believed to be the oldest person to survive such severe burns that ravaged her body from her scalp to the soles of her feet.
She spent eight months at a specialist burns unit in Merseyside, suffered post-traumatic stress disorder, had to learn to walk again and still struggles to grip things.
But she said the most devastating blow was losing her sight, with her recently told damage is permanent.
She added: "My eyes didn't get burned, but because I was so ill and nearly lost my life on a number of occasions, it caused my optic nerve to get damaged.
"I have been left with no central vision and that's what you use to see detail. I can't see people's faces.
"I will walk into a bar and I won't be able to see my friends until I'm a foot away from them."
Ms Pugh said the undisclosed total she received will help pay for care.


Anne Moffat's colleagues at Girlguiding UK said she was "a truly special person who was talented, warm and gracious".

As an 18-year-old, she joined the Girl Guides, as it was then known, and in later years rose to be its head of marketing and communications.
On 7 July 2005, Ms Moffat, 48, left her home in Old Harlow, Essex, and headed to her office in Buckingham Palace Road, Victoria.
She was standing very close to Shehzad Tanweer when he detonated his bomb and is not believed to have survived the initial blast.
Ms Moffat was born on Christmas Day 1956 in Lanark, and her brother Christopher told the 7 July inquest she had been "a very special Christmas gift".
She studied art at college and began her career at the Girl Guides as a graphic designer - the first of many roles during her 20 years at the organisation.
A few days before the bombings, she had been at the Hampton Court Flower Show, promoting a new rose named in honour of the Brownies' 90th birthday.
Muriel Dunn, a former international manager at The Guide Association, said her loss was "a terrible tragedy".
"I will always remember her quiet manner, her professionalism, her expertise in her work area and her charm and warmth when working with others.
"I am so glad I had the pleasure of knowing her."
Ms Moffat's brother said she was "dedicated to professionalism at work" and spent many hours in the evening and at weekends at Guiding events.
Outside work, she loved architecture, sculpture and gardening, as well as socialising.
"She was a strong-minded and determined person, but had a close network of friends," he told the inquest. "Everyone who ever knew Anne respected her qualities of honesty and integrity."
In her handbag on the day she died was a booklet about the Make Poverty History campaign.
"This gives you an idea of Anne's commitment to helping making a better future for others," her brother said.
Mr Moffat added: "You never really appreciate the light emitted by a candle in a darkened room until the candle is extinguished.
"This sums up Anne, as she shed so much light on so many other people's lives."


For three decades the chances of toppling the SDLP in South Down have been about as strong as the prospect of anyone scaling the Mourne mountains barefoot.

But after an amazing Northern Ireland Assembly election result in the constituency in March, Sinn Féin can see the summit.
The party began 155 votes behind the SDLP on the previous assembly poll result of May 2016.
They emerged 6,650 votes ahead.
That is why many believe Chris Hazzard, one of Sinn Féin's two candidates in that election, is set to become the party's first MP for South Down.
But there is a caveat - or two.
Firstly, the SDLP's Margaret Ritchie easily beat Mr Hazzard in the 2015 general election - the margin was 5,891 votes.
And, of course, there is the old claim that in Westminster elections many unionists lend their votes to the SDLP to ensure Sinn Féin is defeated.
Right? Well, maybe not this time.
According to Paul Smyington, the editor of the Down Recorder newspaper, unionists who were spooked by the surge for Sinn Féin in March are telling voters on the doorsteps to "vote for the union".
He claims that could have an "important impact on this election".
Not that Ms Ritchie appeared bothered about the unionist factor two years ago.
In her victory speech, she told her supporters: "Let us be very clear that the SDLP vote increased and that we have a solid majority now in South Down without any votes being lent to us.
"So, let's lose that myth now."
That claim is about to be put to the test.
Asked about the forthcoming election, the outgoing SDLP MP chose her words carefully.
"I, as an MP who has served for the last seven years, have been an MP for all of the constituents in South Down, representing them on a wide range of issues," she said.
"Every vote is valued for me and I look forward to many, many people right across the constituency - irrespective of political affiliations - voting for Margaret Ritchie on 8 June.
"They will get an MP who will represent them both here in the constituency and at Westminster 24-7, 365 days per year."
Sinn Féin has been putting a massive effort into the constituency.
About 400 people, including the party president Gerry Adams, attended Mr Hazzard's campaign launch in Newcastle.
"When the results were coming in in March more people joined Sinn Féin in the six hours during the count than had previously joined in the previous six months in South Down," said Mr Hazzard.
"There's an appetite now for Sinn Féin that is growing year-on-year.
"We have canvas teams out in nearly every village and town every night and certainly the message coming back is positive.
"People see the work that we are doing, the leadership that we are giving and they're coming on board."
The largest unionist party, the Democratic Unionist Party, is not represented this time by the well-known Jim Wells but by a first-timer, 32-year-old accountant Diane Forsythe.
She said the election in March was a wake-up call for unionists.
"There's definitely that strong feeling that I'm getting on the doors that people are wanting to come out and put their pro-union support on the ticket," she said.
"I would ask them to do that because ultimately lending their vote to any nationalist party is a vote against the union."
Ulster Unionist Harold McKee, who lost his assembly seat in March, said the unionist mindset this time is difficult to read.
"I'm hearing mixed views on it," he said.
"I am a unionist and if I stand as a unionist I'll not be asking someone else to vote for another party - I expect them to vote for me."
The Alliance Party shocked many by out-polling the Ulster Unionists in March.
It is represented this time by councillor Andrew McMurray, who said the party has a "solid base".
"I think the positive, progressive and pro-European messages that we're putting out will hopefully resonate with the voters and they will show that South Down wants that Alliance voice."
Sinn Féin knows that Ms Ritchie cannot be written off.
But coming so soon after the assembly election and the Sinn Féin surge she will have to fight harder than ever if the SDLP's winning streak in South Down is to continue.


A month into this season's FA Cup, 160 non-league clubs find themselves three rounds away from the first round proper.

Among those dreaming of a tie with a Football League side are the paralysed footballer who bought his former club, an ex-Premier League striker taking his first steps in management and a team that has not played a home game in more than 3,000 days.
BBC Sport looks at the stories of some of the clubs involved in this weekend's second qualifying round.
Having just broken into his hometown club's first team and been put forward for England schools trials, George Dowell appeared to be at the start of a promising career as a footballer.
But, at the age of 17, that was cruelly taken from him when a car crash in 2010 left him paralysed from the chest down.
It was a devastating blow, but one that Dowell would not let get the better of him and, despite his condition, he was determined to remain involved in football.
So he did, by buying the club he once played for.
"I am enjoying it," said Dowell, a former defender for non-league side Worthing FC.
"It is busy but being chairman of the club gives me a purpose and it is all good fun at the moment."
Dowell is now 22 - making him one of the youngest owners in the world - but the progression from his accident to buying Worthing FC was not easy.
He had been the passenger in a friend's car when it came off the road on the way back from a fast food restaurant, crashing into a field.
Dowell cannot remember much about the accident itself, instead waking up in hospital to be told he would never walk again.
"I broke my spine," he added. "It was hard to come to terms with my situation to start with.
"There were some long days and it was not great, but I have great friends and family and they helped me come through it."
During his 10 months in hospital, he and his friends made plans to start a football team when he returned home, but such talk was put on hold while he underwent rehabilitation.
"I wasn't in the right frame of mind to do it straight away," said Dowell. "However, around 18 months ago I asked a few of my mates if they were still interested in getting a team together and they said yes, so we did it."
Creating a team with his friends was his first foray back into football, but soon after he learned that his former club Worthing FC was struggling financially.
With debts of £200,000 - and £6,000 a day needed just to keep the Isthmian League Division One South club's doors open - Dowell, who had received a payout from the driver's insurers, decided to act.
"I had read in the local newspaper in November last year that Worthing were struggling financially and I still knew some guys at the club," he said.
"I spoke to them about it and they set me up with a meeting with the people in charge at the time. It went from there really."
All the debts are now paid off and the club is making a profit but Dowell's input has not stopped there.
Since taking over in April, he has overseen a complete revamp of the club's 4,000 capacity Woodside Road ground, the crown jewel being the installation of a state-of-the-art 3G pitch.
"It is no longer just open on match days but seven days a week," Dowell adds. "The 3G pitch is fully booked from 5pm until 10pm every night and now we are just starting up a development centre for under eights and under 16s."
Dowell has now set his sights on overseeing success on the pitch in the long term.
"I have a five-year plan and that is to get promoted to the Conference South," he said. "That's two promotions and it would be the first time for the club to get to that level, which would be amazing."
On Saturday, they travel to Evo-Stik Southern Premier side St Neots Town in the FA Cup second qualifying round.
"You saw the magic of the FA Cup last year with some of the runs non-league teams went on," says Dowell.
"If you go on a long run then it really puts you on the map."
Hook Norton may be more famous for beer than football, but the Oxfordshire village's local team is looking to change that as they continue their historic FA Cup journey this weekend.
Located a stone's throw away from the village's brewery, Hook Norton FC - nicknamed the Brewery Boys - won their first FA Cup game in their 117-year history by beating Frimley Green 5-0 in the extra preliminary round on 15 August.
Since then, they have seen off Burnham and Eastbourne United to set-up a clash with National League side Weston-super-Mare.
It has the potential to be the upset of the round, with Hook Norton, from the 10th tier of English football, playing four divisions below their opponents.
"It is basically like a Conference team playing a Premier League team," said primary school teacher Joe Davies, Hook Norton's 26-year-old manager.
"That is the enormity of the game and to welcome a club of Weston-super-Mare's size is massive for us."
To say Hook Norton are minnows would be an understatement. With a population of 2,000, the entire village could fit inside Weston-super-Mare's 3,500 capacity stadium with plenty of room to spare.
"It has brought the village together," added Davies.
"Our U12s are going to be mascots and the U17s will be car park attendants, while the village shop is providing our food for the whole weekend.
"The brewery called us the other day to say they will send a couple of crates of beer down. It is a really exciting time."
For a club of Hook Norton's size, the financial rewards of an FA Cup run are massive. So far, they have earned £7,000 in prize money. Win this weekend and a further £4,500 will be coming their way.
Davies, though, is wary of lessons learned from several clubs from the professional ranks who have ended up spending beyond their means, only to fall upon hard times.
"I am not a manager who is going to blow 700 quid on a player," he added. "It goes back into the club.
"The players deserve the plaudits for winning the games but behind the scenes there are a lot of hard-working people.
"This FA Cup run is such a reward for their hard work and they deserve all the credit they can get."
Gloucester City kick off their FA Cup campaign when they host Kidlington on Sunday but, for the ninth season in a row, they will not actually be playing 'at home'.
Since 2007 they have been playing at the stadiums of other teams after a flood left their Meadow Park ground almost completely submerged in water.
"It was devastating," remembers Tim Harris, the current manager who was also in charge of the team eight years ago.
"Within three or four hours the water was up to the goalposts."
Since 2010, they have played their home games at Cheltenham Town's Whaddon Road - located 12 miles away from Gloucester - but were given a boost in October last year when plans for a new stadium at Meadow Park was given the go-ahead by the local council.
A significant step taken in their bid to return home, it was a massive boost for the club and its fans.
A year, on however, it is still not clear when exactly Gloucester City will finally be able to give up their nomadic existence. Some 'technical issues' with their application for full planning permission earlier this year led to a delay in work being able to start on their new stadium.
"It has been moving slowly, but we will get there," added Harris.
"What we need is a good cup run. That would help revitalise the club."
Scoring in the FA Cup on his return to football following a near-fatal motorcycle accident was a special moment for Matt Jansen.
The former Blackburn striker got two goals in a third-round tie in 2003 as Rovers won 4-1 at Aston Villa. A remarkable achievement, given that just five months earlier he had been in a coma following the crash in Italy.
Now Jansen is hoping to recreate that winning feeling in the FA Cup once again - this time as manager of Conference North side Chorley.
Jansen, now 35, took his first steps into football management earlier this year when he moved up from assistant after previous manager Garry Flitcroft - the ex-Blackburn Rovers captain - resigned to spend more time with his family and his business.
"I'd been concentrating on my coaching badges, so it came out of the blue a little bit," said Jansen, who had been Flitcroft's right-hand man at the club since 2010.
"However, when I was offered the chance I was delighted. I get less time on the golf course now and my handicap is suffering, but I wouldn't swap it for the world."
Jansen also played for Crystal Palace and Bolton in the Premier League and worked under the likes of Terry Venables, Graeme Souness and Sam Allardyce during his playing days. He has tried to incorporate the best of their management styles into the way he works at Chorley.
"You wouldn't want to cross Graeme Souness, but he was a good guy too," added Jansen.
"Sam Allardyce was another guy you wouldn't want to anger, but at the same time he was a funny guy and he knew how to get the best out of you.
"I try to take the best from all of them, but I am not a ranter and raver. Generally I prefer to talk to my players on an individual basis and get the best from them that way."
The injury Jansen suffered in 2002 while on holiday in Italy prevented him from building on the heights he had reached in the early part of his career.
But his time at the top had seen him develop some useful contacts in the game and that set him up well for the world of management.
"I live next door to Wigan boss Gary Caldwell and he said if I ever need players, to let him know," Jansen said.
"I also know Uwe Rosler at Leeds and Simon Grayson at Preston. It is good to have these contacts because it is a long season and injuries can set in."
With five wins from the last eight games, things are going well for Chorley and Jansen.
Next up is Frickley Athletic in the FA Cup on Saturday. Having enjoyed cup success during his playing career, Jansen is hoping to be able to inspire his Chorley players to pull off a surprise or two in this year's competition.
"I scored when Blackburn beat Tottenham to win the 2002 League Cup," Jansen said. "I only mention it about two or three times a week to the lads.
"It should be good for the players, though. Doing well in the FA Cup can really raise the profile of the club and hopefully we can do that this season."


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A schoolboy has been found guilty of burgling the home of a 90-year-old widow who suffered a stroke within hours and later died.

The 16-year-old, who cannot be named, had downed a litre of vodka when he called at the Swansea home of Jean Thyer on 28 September last year.
He admitted stealing the pensioner's purse but had denied burglary during his trial at Swansea Crown Court.
Sentencing was adjourned until 13 February for reports to be prepared.
During the trial, the court heard Mrs Thyer was found collapsed at her home in Killay, Swansea, the morning after the teenager's late evening visit.
The regular church-goer, who had lived at her address for over 50 years, died in hospital within a few days.
Jurors heard the teenager, who was 15 at the time, claimed he called at the victim's home because he was lost, and had no intention of burglary.
He claimed he stole her purse "on the spur of the moment," running off as the widow was on the phone calling a neighbour for help.
But a jury took just four hours to reject that version of events and unanimously found him guilty.


Journalists at Johnston Press in Northern Ireland have voted overwhelmingly to approve strike action.

The company owns the News Letter, the Derry Journal and the Morton Newspapers chain.
The strike ballot was in response to cutting 13 editorial positions.
It does not mean a strike is inevitable but one can now be called at a week's notice.
Johnston is an Edinburgh-based firm which owns more than 200 papers across the UK.
The trade publication Press Gazette estimates that Johnston has shed around half its journalists in five years.
The company has been struggling with long-term falls in sales.
However, Nicola Coleman of the NUJ said that while journalists face "yet another attack on their working conditions and struggle to serve their communities and produce quality newspapers, senior executives in Johnston Press are rewarding themselves handsomely".
Ms Coleman, the union's Irish organiser, said the company's annual report revealed a bonus arrangement "for the retention and 'incentivisation' of senior managers (excluding executive directors) of Â£3.9m".
She added: "This is in stark contrast to how our members are treated, having endured pay freezes for years and who have only recently seen small percentage increases to their salaries, while restructure after restructure has reduced editorial staffing levels by more than half and wiped out almost all promotional opportunities."


A girl aged 16 has been jailed by a German court for six years for what is seen as the country's first attack by a sympathiser of jihadist group Islamic State (IS).

Safia S, who was 15 at the time, stabbed and seriously wounded a police officer in the neck at the central station in Hanover.
Prosecutors described the attack as ordered and supervised by IS.
She was convicted of attempted murder and helping a terrorist organisation.
Safia S, described as a German Moroccan, was also found guilty of grievous bodily harm. Her defence had called for her to be cleared of the other charges and given a lesser sentence.
A 20 year-old man, Mohamad Hasan K, was jailed for two and a half years on Thursday because he knew of the planned attack but failed to alert authorities.
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Safia S stabbed the 34-year-old policeman on 26 February last year, weeks after flying to the Turkish city of Istanbul to join IS in Syria. Although her mother brought her back she kept in touch with the jihadist group over the internet.
The judge cited messages on her phone as evidence that the attack was in support of IS. One text was sent to Mohamad Hasan K after the jihadist attacks in Paris on 13 November 2015 in which she wrote: "Allah bless our lions who carried out an operation in Paris yesterday".
Security camera footage from Hanover station showed her staring at two police officers. When they asked to see her identity card she lunged at one of them with a knife.
The girl later wrote to the police offer to apologise for her attack and she repeated her apology during the trial. Her legal team said they would appeal against the verdict.
Her family had warned the authorities that she had become radicalised and lawyer Mutlu Guenal argued that "the real failure lay with police".
Under German privacy laws, defendants' surnames are not publicised. The case at Celle regional court was heard behind closed doors because of Safia S's age.
Police in Hanover are also investigating a suspected jihadist plot to target an international football friendly, four days after the Paris attacks.


Chris Powell will remain in charge of Derby County for Saturday's match against Reading following the dramatic suspension of boss Nigel Pearson.

Pearson was removed from his role by owner Mel Morris hours before Tuesday's 2-0 win against Cardiff City, pending a club investigation.
The Rams have refused to comment beyond a brief initial statement.
"I have spoken to Mel and said I am very proud to lead the team," 47-year-old Powell told BBC Radio Derby.
"He said he wants me to and I will do it until I am told otherwise."
BBC Radio Derby also reported that the decision to suspend Pearson was taken pending the club's investigation into his behaviour and he is not expected to return as manager.
Derby's poor start to the season has seen them slip to third from bottom after a six-game winless run before the victory at the Cardiff City Stadium.
I have lost a mentor and a good friend and we will have to see what pans out in the future.
An emotional Powell, who was brought to the club as assistant boss by Pearson soon after the former Leicester City manager took over in the summer, said it was a "tough situation".
"I am close to Nigel; he is the reason why I am here," Powell added.
"He is a fine man and I have learned a lot from him but we had to get on with the game. I have spoken to him but it is not the time or place to talk about that now.
"The club will make further statements. I will just make sure the players are focused on the football."
Powell said the players held a meeting following Saturday's 2-1 home defeat against fellow strugglers Blackburn Rovers - which was encouraged by the management group - and responded magnificently to earn their second league win of the season against Cardiff.
"The gameplan and the team we all decided, along with Nigel. We always felt we were going to get a performance and what a performance it was," Powell added.
"It has been tough for us all. We have been a bit unfortunate, but results are what they are and you have to win games and get points.
"Derby County should be very proud of their team. In the circumstances it could have been quite easy to go the other way and blame what has happened, but they haven't.
"They have responded magnificently and all we can do is build on what we have done."


A doodle on a piece of wood by a former theme park worker has won the top prize in a contest which recognises the "lack of effort" required to create it.

Dismal And by "Bonksy" was one of 69 entries to this year's Turnip Prize.
Accepting his prize Mr Bonsky, from Bristol, said: "If you set your sights on the gutter and refuse to work hard your dreams really can come true".
The 53-year-old winner is said to have reluctantly accepted his prize, a turnip mounted on a six-inch nail
Organiser Trevor Prideaux said, "I am delighted with the lack of effort taken to create this work".
"This year's event attracted a total of 69 entries, which is exactly the same as last year.
"It's fantastic that Bonksy has won, he clearly has what it takes to be recognised in modern art circles and will be remembered in art history for no time at all!".
The ceremony took place at Wedmore's New Inn on Monday evening.
Other entries included a bread roll nestled in hay and a galvanized staple on a paper plate.
The contest satirises the Turner Prize - which is also presented later - by rewarding deliberately bad modern art.
The winner of the Tate Gallery's Turner Prize winner, meanwhile, receives Â£25,000, while runners-up each get Â£5,000.
In previous years, entries have been submitted from Ireland, Italy, France, Canada, Germany and the USA.
Winners of earlier competitions include David Stone in 1999 for Alfred The Grate (two burned rolls on a fire grate) and James Timms in 2003 for Take a Leaf out of my Chook (A raw chicken stuffed with leaves).
In 2007, the competition gained publicity after a work which mocked graffiti artist Banksy was disqualified for "trying too hard".
Titled By the Banksea, it showed a seaside Aunt Sally stencil holding a rocket launcher and firing a turnip over a wrecked seaside pier.
"Someone has thought too much about this one and tried too hard," Mr Prideaux said.
The shortlist of entries in 2015 has been whittled down from 69 to six.
Mr Prideaux said this year's art works were up to the "usual poor standard" with four people submitting "Jeremy Corbyn entries", although none made the shortlist.


Vigils have been held in Orlando, Florida, and around the world for the victims of Sunday's deadly gun attack on a gay nightclub.

A Muslim cleric told those attending the Orlando event that Muslims stood united with them against "the ideology of hatred, death and destruction".
Similar gatherings have been held in countries including France, Australia, the UK and Germany.
The attack on Orlando's Pulse nightclub left 49 people dead and dozens wounded.
US authorities say gunman Omar Mateen pledged allegiance to so-called Islamic State (IS) shortly before the attack.
Several Pulse customers have told US media that Mateen was a regular visitor to the nightclub.
"Sometimes he would go over in the corner and sit and drink by himself, and other times he would get so drunk he was loud and belligerent," Ty Smith told the Orlando Sentinel.
Other witnesses said they recognised him from gay dating apps.
President Barack Obama is due to travel to Orlando on Thursday to pay his respects to the victims.
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Thousands of people gathered in central Orlando on Monday night, holding candles and flowers in tribute to the victims.
Imam Muhammad Musri, of the Islamic Society of Central Florida, said the attack had been "an act of terror, an act of hate".
"We condemn the ideology of hate and death and destruction and we call for all Muslim leaders and communities across this nation and across the world to stand up and to deal with this cancer and to remove it once and for all," he said.
The vigil was held outside the area's main performing arts venue, the Dr Phillips Center, which has become the site of a makeshift memorial.
"Pulse gave me confidence, made me realise I was normal and so much like everyone else," said Cathleen Daus, a former employee at the club who attended the vigil.
In New York, the lights of the Empire State Building were turned off as thousands attended a memorial event for the Orlando victims.
A vigil was also held in London's Soho district, the hub of the city's gay community, and there were cheers as 49 balloons were released, one for each of those who died.
Australia's landmark Sydney Harbour Bridge was lit in the rainbow colours of the gay community flag as hundreds gathered to pay tribute.
"This could have happened anywhere," Paul Savage told AFP news agency at the candlelit vigil.
Paris's Eiffel Tower was also lit up in rainbow colours, as well as the colours of the US flag, as people held a memorial to honour those killed and injured in Orlando.
In Berlin, more than 100 people gathered outside the US embassy to light candles, lay flowers and wave rainbow flags.
The deadliest mass shooting in recent US history ended when police shot Mateen dead. The attack also left 53 people injured, five of them in a serious condition.
On Monday, President Obama said the inquiry was being treated as a terrorist investigation.
However, he said there was no clear evidence that Omar Mateen was directed by IS.
FBI Director James Comey said there were "strong indications of radicalisation and of potential inspiration by foreign terrorist organisations".
"We're highly confident this killer was radicalised at least in some part through the internet," he said.
The two presumptive candidates running for US president spoke about what they would do to stop similar attacks.
Republican Donald Trump said changes were needed to the US immigration system which he blamed for allowing Omar Mateen's family to come to the US from Afghanistan.
Democrat Hillary Clinton called for action to stop militants getting hold of assault rifles, saying weapons of war had no place on America's streets.
Mateen began shooting inside the club around 02:00 (06:00 GMT) on Sunday, when the club was holding a Latin night and was packed with revellers.
An off-duty police officer working at the club fought Mateen in a gun battle before police reinforcements arrived.
Forced to retreat into a toilet, Mateen took hostages, Orlando police chief John Mina said.
Another 15 or so people were in another toilet, across the hallway, Orlando Mayor Buddy Dyer said.
Believing Mateen would kill again imminently, police used explosives and an armoured vehicle to break through a wall of the building and survivors began streaming through the hole they had created.
Mateen himself followed them out shooting and was killed, police say.
Cities around the world have been flying rainbow gay pride flags and illuminating buildings in solidarity with the victims of the shooting in Florida.
The names of 48 of the 49 victims have now been released: 41 men and seven women. They include:
The Pulse nightclub was holding its Latino night when the attack took place and many of the victims have Latino or Hispanic names.
Read more about the victims here
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Spray-paint and stencils are being used to spell out a message urging dog owners to clean up after their pets in the Scottish Borders.

It is the latest action from the local authority to tackle the problem.
The council has also produced a video with Hawick High School, run a poster campaign and appointed two enforcement officers on a 12-month trial basis.
Councillor David Paterson said the message would be spray-painted at known dog fouling blackspots.
"The stencils use chalk-based paint which means they are temporary," he said.
"We are taking the issue of dog fouling seriously, as can be seen with this and our various other educational activities related to the responsible dog ownership strategy.
"For those not willing to listen, there is now the real threat of an Â£80 fine through the appointment of enforcement officers as part of the year-long pilot."
He said he had met the officers who were "highly trained and committed to working with the council".
"They will only issue fixed penalty notices to those who do not observe the law," he added.


Welsh Olympic boxer Joe Cordina has confirmed he plans to turn professional in the "near future."

Cordina lost a split decision to Hurshid Tojibaev in the last-16 of the lightweight division at Rio 2016.
The 24-year-old, who won bronze the 2014 Commonwealth Games, said there were a number of factors to consider before turning professional.
"As it stands I'm still a GB boxer, still in camp but in the near future I will be turning professional," he said.
"I couldn't put a date on it. There's a lot of things that can affect things when you turn pro.
"You don't get the support from the lottery and UK Sport, you're on your own and it's a tough call."
Having achieved his goals of competing at the Olympics and the Commonwealth Games, Cordina said his ultimate ambition would be winning a world title.
Cordina knows two-weight world champion Joe Calzaghe and trains in the same gym, St Joseph's in Newport, as IBF featherweight world champion Lee Selby.
"I spar with him [Selby] quite a lot leading up to fights," Cordina told BBC Radio Wales Sport.
"He's someone you look to and if I want any advice I'm sure he'd give it.
"Same with Joe Calzaghe, if I look for any advice of him I'm sure he would pass it on.
"There's some big fighters in Wales that are coming through. You've got Liam Williams, Andrew Selby, Craig Evans and Nathan Cleverly's won a world title.
"Eventually when I do turn over I can follow in their footsteps."
Promoter Eddie Hearn said this week that he has talks planned with several members of the Team GB squad for the 2016 Olympics. He previously stated to BBC Wales Sport that Cordina was the top prospect in the squad.


A 65-year-old man arrested following an explosion which resulted in 100 people being evacuated from their homes will not face charges.

Two people were seriously hurt and 31 injured in a suspected gas blast at New Ferry, Wirral, on 25 March.
The man, from Cheshire, was arrested in May on suspicion of conspiring to commit arson with intent or recklessness and a fraud offence.
A Merseyside Police spokesman said he is "no longer under investigation".
Police are still investigating a 62-year-old man from North Wales and a man, aged 55, from Wirral.


Sony Music has apologised after one of its Japanese girl bands caused uproar by appearing at a concert wearing Nazi-themed Halloween costumes.

Keyakizaka46 went on stage in Yokohama on 22 October wearing black capes and caps resembling those of SS officers
Social media users were quick to point out similarities with the uniforms of Hitler's brutal paramilitary force.
Sony Music Entertainment (Japan) said in a statement: "We express our heartfelt apology for causing offence."
It blamed "our lack of understanding" for the incident, which had prompted the Simon Wiesenthal Centre to demand an apology.
The band is a sister act to the country's popular AKB48 super group. Both are produced by Japanese hit-maker Yasushi Akimoto, an executive board member of the Tokyo 2020 Olympics committee.
In a statement on the band's website he also apologised for his "lack of oversight", saying he had not been aware of the clothing choice before the performance and that he did not think the designers had intended the Nazi parallels. Staff will be better educated and outfits will be checked in future, he said.
With Japan determined to make a good impression in 2020 despite spiralling costs and scandal, the girls' outfits prompted some to hope (in Japanese) that the Games' opening ceremony was being prepared with a bit more care.
Ignorance of the offensiveness of Nazi iconography is surprisingly widespread in Japan and across Asia, and commentators have suggested the mostly teenage pop stars themselves were unaware of the significance of their striking look - one that Sony in Japan has had to apologise for before, when boy band Kishidan appeared on TV in similar uniforms in 2011.


Months after the Christmas floods, the European Commission has yet to assess a UK bid for aid to help repair the damage to homes and businesses.

A Commission spokesman told the BBC it was still waiting for information from the British government.
It cannot begin its assessment as it has yet to receive a final estimate of the flood damage.
The news means any EU payout to help repair damage is likely to be many months away.
Labour said the situation was a "total shambles" and money could already have been made available if the government had acted more quickly.
Britain had provided only a provisional estimate, putting the total cost at £1.7bn.
Ministers confirmed they were to make an application to the EU Solidarity Fund in February.
Once the Commission has received the information it has six weeks to make a decision, but the European Parliament and the European Council both have to give their approval.
A government spokesman said it had already paid out £250m of support to flood victims and the application to the EU fund would take time.
Sixteen thousand homes were flooded in December and January, with Yorkshire, Lancashire, Cumbria in England and central and north-east Scotland among the worst affected.
A European Commission spokeswoman said: "The UK government presented the case as a regional disaster with total direct damage provisionally estimated at £1.7bn.
"It should be noted that the UK considers their damage estimates as provisional and announced that updated data will be provided as soon as possible.
"The assessment of the application by the Commission can only be completed once the updated damage figures have been provided."
The Commission stressed the EU solidarity fund was not designed to provide a rapid response but was there for long term restoration.
A Department for Communities and Local Government spokesman said: "As set out in Parliament nearly six weeks ago we made clear we were applying and are now in the process of collating and submitting the detailed information the Commission requires alongside our application.
"This will take time as communities continue to make claims under our recovery schemes and the damage to infrastructure continues to be assessed - councils, departments and devolved administrations will need to supply their final costs as they become available."
Any EU payment would be made to the British government which would then decide how to spend the money.
In 2008 the UK received around £120m from the EU to help repair damage caused by heavy floods.
The shadow floods minister Alex Cunningham said: "This is a total shambles. David Cameron urgently needs to get a grip and finalise the UK's application for funding to help communities devastated by the floods.
"Up to £23m could already have been made available to help British homes and businesses through the EU Solidarity Fund with the potential for millions more in further payouts."


A veteran republican accused of involvement in the murder of Jean McConville has had his bail conditions varied to allow him to celebrate his wedding anniversary in Donegal.

Ivor Bell, 79, from Ramoan Gardens in west Belfast is facing two charges over the murder of the mother-of-ten.
The IRA kidnapped 37-year-old Mrs McConville from her home in Divis flats in 1972.
Mr Bell's lawyers have said at previous hearings that he denies the offences.
Ivor Bell was due to be arraigned on Friday at Belfast Crown Court but the arraignment was adjourned for a second time after his defence team said he was waiting to be examined by a Dublin-based consultant on whether he was fit to plead or not to the charges.
The Judge granted Mr Bell a variation in his bail to allow him to stay at an address in County Donegal for a week later this month to celebrate his wedding anniversary.
The case is next listed for hearing on 19 November.


A new "shop-front" museum is to open to encourage people back to Paisley High Street.

The Â£2.7m facility will occupy the basement of a previously-empty unit and will house tens of thousands of items not on display in the main museum.
Renfrewshire Council is taking forward the work in connection with Paisley's bid to be UK City of Culture in 2021.
Councillor Jim Harte said it was necessary to find new ways to increase footfall that would benefit traders.
He said: "Other places in Scotland have publicly-accessible museum stores, but this is the first time such a facility has been built on a high street, and will bring a previously-empty unit back into use.
"High streets everywhere - including Paisley's - have suffered in recent years from changes in the way people shop.
"But we can't turn the clock back - we need to be creative in finding new ways to repopulate units, and bring in new footfall which existing traders can benefit from."
It is hoped the new museum at 7 High Street will bring 125,000 visitors a year to the town centre.
Currently, a team is preparing and packing the items at a storage facility.
The collection includes:
The museum store is intended to complement plans for a Â£49m revamp of the main Paisley Museum to turn it into an international-class destination based around the town's heritage story.


Donald Trump is the first commander-in-chief to skip the White House Correspondents' Dinner (WHCD) since 1981, when then-President Ronald Reagan was recovering from a gunshot wound.

Democrats said he was probably still cringing from being roasted by President Obama at the 2016 edition.
But the president told supporters in Pennsylvania he "couldn't possibly be more thrilled" to be far from the "very boring" dinner.
Here's what he (and we) missed at the infamous black-tie affair...
Usually at the WHCD, the president gives a light-hearted speech mocking himself and the media - before being sent up by a comedian.
This year was always going to be different. Or as Daily Show correspondent Hasan Minhaj put it: "Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to the series finale of the White House Correspondents' Dinner!"
Some of his anti-Trump, anti-media jokes drew groans from the assembled journalists, but others raised a giggle.
Actor Alec Baldwin has aroused Mr Trump's fury with his impersonation on the NBC comedy show Saturday Night Live (SNL).
"It is a totally one-sided, biased show - nothing funny at all," the president once sniffed.
But if you can't have the man in charge, it's natural to want the next best thing - so Baldwin donned his Trump wig and appeared by video link.
"Keep up the good work!" he told journalists with a smirk.
Late-night TV show host Samantha Bee led a competing event - "Not the White House Correspondents' Dinner" - on Saturday night, spawning a Twitter hashtag and a series of filthy one-liners.
Actor Will Ferrell made an appearance impersonating George W Bush, and the gags included a future America in which Vice-President Mike Pence is in charge after Mr Trump got his head stuck in a honey jar.
The event lived up to its name by failing to provide any dinner - although VIP attendees reportedly got taco salad.
Bee, who hosts TBS's Full Frontal, donated $200,000 (Â£154,400) of the evening's proceeds to the Committee to Protect Journalists.
Her more savage points included the claim that President Trump has tweeted more about Fox News since taking office than he ever has about his youngest daughter, Tiffany.
At his eighth and final White House Correspondents' Dinner, President Barack Obama exited by decisively dropping the microphone, and intoning "Obama out".
For some, the memory was too charming not to revisit.
"Better times" rued tweeter Regina Logan, while user Tammy begged: "Will the real President please come back".
Others pointed out the irony of Mr Obama roasting Trump for being an unqualified conspiracy theorist, only for him to scoop the presidency.
"Was that the mic drop when Obama said Trump would never be President? Whoops!" wrote self-declared right-winger Chris11962.
(For the confused, here's a history of mic dropping - a gesture designed to show you've had the final word.)
The headline guests of the Correspondents' Dinner were veteran investigative journalists Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, who shot to fame during the Watergate scandal that brought down President Richard Nixon.
Addressing Mr Trump's anti-media catchphrase - "fake news!", Woodward responded: "Mr President, the media is not fake news - let's take that off the table as we proceed.
"Whatever the climate, whether the media is revered or reviled, we should and must persist - and I believe we will."
His words served as a reminder that the dinner is meant to celebrate journalism and the First Amendment - America's constitutional right to free speech - as well as pillory the president.
White House Correspondents' Association president Jeff Mason got a standing ovation for a similar point, stating: "We are not failing news organisations. And we are not the enemy of the American people."
Despite refusing to show up this year, President Trump has in no way ruled out attending 2018's White House Correspondents' Dinner.
"I would come next year, absolutely," he told Reuters news agency this week.
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Rev Ian McNie has been elected as the new moderator of the Presbyterian Church, the most senior position in the church.

The 64-year-old was nominated by 12 out of the 19 presbyteries who met across Ireland on Tuesday evening.
He was chosen from a shortlist of four ministers.
Rev McNie will take over as moderator from Rev Michael Barry and will officially take up office as the 176th moderator on 1 June.
The other shortlisted candidates were Rev Robert Bell, Rev Liz Hughes and Rev Frank Sellar.


Aung San Suu Kyi, Myanmar's opposition leader, has arrived in China on her first visit at a time of tension between the two countries.

Ms Suu Kyi will meet President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang, but no other details have been provided.
Relations between the countries have cooled in recent years, partly because of violence near their mutual border.
Myanmar has been fighting rebels in its eastern Kokang region, which borders China's Yunnan province.
China is concerned about violence spilling over and has sent patrols to the border in response.
A Chinese foreign ministry spokesman told reporters on Wednesday that Ms Suu Kyi's visit would "move forward China and Myanmar's friendly and co-operative relations".
He added that China hoped Myanmar "would answer to relevant requests put in by China, stop the warfare, ease the tension, and restore peace, stability and normal order to the China-Myanmar border area at an early date."
This visit is meant to improve ties between Myanmar's opposition leader and China but her comments will be closely scrutinised.
Many are already calling on Ms Suu Kyi to recognise her similarities to fellow Nobel Peace prize winner Liu Xiaobo during her visit.
The Chinese dissident and writer is serving an 11-year prison sentence for "inciting subversion of state power".
But authorities said on Wednesday they would not release him as there was "no reason to alter the judgment".
Analysts say the government was furious after he was awarded the prize a year after being imprisoned, and will not take kindly to any criticism from Ms Suu Kyi.
When China's state news agency announced Aung San Suu Kyi's imminent arrival in Beijing, she was described as a parliamentarian, the leader of a key political party. The fact that she is also a Nobel Peace prize laureate did not merit a mention.
And that hints at the political risk that Beijing is taking by hosting Ms Suu Kyi. Her presence will highlight the notable absence of China's own Liu Xiaobo.
Mr Liu is one of the principal authors of a petition calling for democracy and an end to one-party rule in China. Just like Ms Suu Kyi, he is being punished for speaking out against authoritarian rule.
Mr Liu's wife, who lives under strict house arrest, said she was "very, very happy" to hear about Ms Suu Kyi's visit. But she declined the BBC's request for an interview, explaining over the phone: "I am under close watch from the government and comments I make can delay my visits to Xiaobo and affect how my family is treated (by police)."
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While Myanmar's military junta was under Western sanctions and Ms Suu Kyi was under house arrest, China remained a loyal ally.
But since reforms were introduced in 2011, the government of President Thein Sein has allied itself closely with the US, although China continues to help develop major infrastructure projects in Myanmar.
Correspondents say that a democratic Myanmar is a much harder partner for China, but given that Ms Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy party may do well in forthcoming elections, Beijing wants to build a relationship with a woman whose politics it deplores.
Ms Suu Kyi is expected to play a key role in the presidential elections this November. But she is unlikely to run as the constitution blocks her from standing because her husband and children are foreign citizens.


About 15,000 jobs could be affected if a buyer is not found for Port Talbot's steelworks, a councillor has claimed.

Indian owner Tata Steel is selling its entire loss-making UK business but did not give an "open ended" commitment to keep plants open during the sale.
Port Talbot is Tata's biggest UK plant with about 4,000 workers but councillor Tony Taylor, said closure would have a much wider impact.
He said the Welsh and UK governments needed to step in and help.
But Prime Minister David Cameron ruled out nationalisation at a meeting on Thursday.
He said the government was "doing everything it can" to resolve the steel crisis but said nationalisation was not the right answer.
He said the situation in Port Talbot was of "deep concern" and there were "no guarantees of success".
Mr Cameron defended the way crisis had been handled, insisting the intervention had stopped an outright closure.
The Welsh Assembly has been recalled to meet on 4 April and First Minister Carwyn Jones is due to speak to Tata bosses later on Thursday.
Ministers said they were considering "all options" for the Port Talbot plant, which is said to be losing Â£1m a day.
One option would be a management buy-out.
Sources said unions and management at Tata Steel had already come up with a turnaround plan for the 100-year-old plant.
Their original restructuring plan - made after Tata announced in January 1,050 jobs would go - was rejected on Tuesday when the firm chose to sell up at a board meeting in Mumbai.
Mr Taylor said: "You've got to take into account about 3,000 directly employed, 3,000 contractors, 6,000 in the supply chain and then you've got people who rely on the steel industry.
"You're talking about 15,000 jobs could be lost in a community like Neath Port Talbot."
He added: "The people in there can build the best steel in the entire world. They are the most professional workers I've worked with over the last couple of years and certainly they need a chance to survive.
"If that means the government coming in and providing short-term assistance, then so be it.
"Give us a chance on a level playing field.
"If you're going to bring in a new buyer we've got to really make sure there's something there for them to buy.
"In the short term, we need the Welsh Government and the Westminster government to work in partnership to get in a short-term impetus into the plant so a new buyer can invest in confidence and ensure there's a sustainable steel industry left for the future generations."
Tata has other Welsh plants at Trostre, Shotton, Llanwern and Newport, while UK plants in Rotherham and Corby are also affected.


People living and working under Gatwick Airport flight paths are being given the chance to monitor noise from planes with the launch of an online tool.

The Noise Lab provides up-to-date information using live data from a network of on-the-ground sound monitors to produce community noise reports.
Gatwick Airport said it had been modelled on a similar tool introduced by Schiphol Airport in Amsterdam.
Spokesman Tom Denton said it would help to "better understand" noise concerns.
"This noise lab provides up-to-date flight tracking information which will help us to more accurately monitor concerns and, in time, consider options for further noise mitigation measures.
"We recognise aircraft noise is a real problem for some people and we are determined to do what we can to minimise the amount we generate and mitigate against its effects," he said.
Sally Pavey, chairman of Communities Against Gatwick Noise Emissions (CAGNE), welcomed any steps that would help residents but said their lives were still being affected by aircraft noise.
"Gatwick Airport is not addressing the real cause of the issue, which is the concentrated flight paths introduced in May last year," she said.
There are an average of 350 daily flights from Gatwick's single runway.
Earlier this year, Ms Pavey joined other groups from across the South East to deliver a protest letter to the government about increased noise from Gatwick should a second runway be approved, saying tens of thousands of people had already had their lives blighted.


There's some high-powered law-making to be done this week - on policing and crime, and children and social work - but I can't help wondering whether our parliamentarians might be going through the motions a bit, making their final three sitting days before the special referendum recess a kind of phoney war period.

If there are euro-fireworks, the most likely flashpoints are at the Commons question times - where Home Office, Justice, Cabinet Office (in charge of the online voter registration system, remember) and Prime Minister's questions all provide rich opportunities for the referendum campaigns to have a go at each other.
And with increasing "blue on blue" attacks in recent days normal parliamentary politesse may be in short supply.
The other big event will be the result of the election for a new Lord Speaker, to take over from Baroness D'Souza, in September. The election was held on Wednesday 8 June, but - as with the Speakership of the Commons - the result could not be confirmed until the winner had received the Royal Approbation, the approval of the Queen. The former health secretary, Lord Fowler, is the favourite.
The Commons opens (2.30pm) with Home Office questions - and any post-weekend urgent questions or ministerial statements will be taken at 3.30pm.
Then MPs move on to another big day of report stage proceedings on the Policing and Crime Bill. It may not be quite as intricate as the previous week's action on the Investigatory Powers Bill, but, as often happens with this type of criminal law bill, there are all kinds of amendments raining down from many different sources. There are plenty of issues attracting attention.
Labour will have amendments down on a series of "victims' rights" issues - some inspired by the Hillsborough case, where shadow home secretary Andy Burnham has been active. A particular issue is ensuring some equality between victims or their relatives, and public authorities, in inquests and court cases, where they are often ranged against high-powered taxpayer-funded QCs.
Labour will also be attempting to build some of the provisions of former DPP Kier Starmer's unsuccessful private member's bill on rights and entitlements of victims, from last year, into this bill.
One of the big areas of interest is the treatment of mental health in the criminal justice system: Labour have a new clause (NC24) on the right to an independent mental health advocate. The Conservative backbencher and mental health campaigner Charles Walker has NC2 which says that someone detained against their will in a place of safety shall have the right to independent legal advice, and another NC42 that would require the home secretary to be notified whenever police officers are deployed on psychiatric wards.
And the Lib Dem former health minister Norman Lamb offers NC40 banning the use of tasers on psychiatric wards. He has another amendment calling for people not to be removed to a place of safety that is a police station, except when their behaviour is so extreme they cannot be safely managed and no alternative place of safety is available.
Another big subject area is child sexual exploitation where Mr Lamb pops up again with NC45 which requires that when the police or a local authority think a child has been sexually exploited or abused, they must refer them for assessment and make any necessary arrangements for their treatment or care. There's a cross-party new clause, NC25, along similar lines, to enable the Future in Mind report's recommendation that young people who have been sexually abused or exploited should receive a comprehensive initial assessment, and referral to appropriate services.
There's cross party backing for NC6 to create the offence of abduction of a vulnerable child aged 16 or 17 - which is signed by Labour's Sarah Champion, Plaid Cymru's Liz Saville Roberts, the Green MP, Caroline Lucas, and the Lib Dem Alistair Carmichael. And a similar list of names appears on NC10, on the prevention of child sexual exploitation and private hire vehicles which would place local authorities under a duty to consider how they can prevent child sexual exploitation when they issue licences for taxis and private hire vehicles
Labour's Ann Coffey, who led an inquiry by an all-party group into sexual exploitation has new clauses NC14 and NC13 creating prevention orders to stop grooming for criminal behaviour. Then there's NC18 from the Conservative Kit Malthouse to increase the maximum sentence for child cruelty from 10 years in jail to 14. Another new clause from Mr Malthouse, NC15, calls for a review of sentencing guidelines on crime against children and crimes where the victim is a child.  And he also has NC16 which allow the police to apply for an order to mobile phone providers to block numbers on cards advertising prostitution.
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Plaid's Liz Saville Roberts has a series of clauses to give the National Assembly for Wales responsibility for policing - giving powers over policing, police pay, probation, community safety, and crime. And she also picks up the interest in cyber-crime taken by her Plaid predecessor Elfyn Llwyd with NC3  calling for a review of digital crime legislation with a view to consolidating it into a single statute.  And she wants to add to the legislation with NC4 which would outlaw various forms of "cyberstalking" - it would become an offence to use a digital device to repeatedly locate, listen to or watch a person without legitimate purpose, to install spyware, a webcam or any other device or software on another person's property or digital device without permission. The clause lists a whole series of cyberstalking practices and it also calls for restrictions on the sale of spyware to under-16 s and require anyone purchasing it to state how they intended to use it.
There's an anti-doping clause - NC39  - from Labour's Christina Rees - which would make it an offence to knowingly take a prohibited substance to boost performance. It would cover the entourage of an athlete and medical professionals who prescribe a prohibited substance.
The Lib Dem former Scottish secretary Alistair Carmichael has two new clauses NC46 and NC47 on revenge pornography, making the disclosure of private sexual images with intent to cause distress an offence and providing a mechanism for compensation.
The normal report stage caveats apply - not all of the above will be discussed - and some of the amendments and new clauses will be aimed more at pressing ministers to respond to an issue than at getting written into law. Look out for assurances that changes will be brought forward when the bill reaches the Lords... and look out for close votes on particular subjects, because that often provides a cue for peers to revisit the issue
In Westminster Hall from 4.30pm - 7.30pm MPs will debate e-petition 125692, entitled Stop spending a fixed 0.7% slice of our national wealth on Foreign Aid.
In the Lords, from 2.30pm peers will hear the result of their election for a new Lord Speaker. Then, after the regular half hour question time, they debate reports from two select committees: the Digital Skills Committee and the European Union Committee report on EU energy governance.
The Commons meets at 11.30am for Justice questions and then they have the second reading of the Wales Bill - which sets out new powers to be transferred to the National Assembly for Wales or Welsh ministers.
It also changes the basis on which the Assembly operated by moving to a "reserved powers model" along the lines of the devolution settlement in Scotland. The aim is to provide a clearer separation of powers between what is devolved and what is reserved to Westminster, allowing the Assembly to legislate on any subject not specifically reserved to Parliament.
The day's Adjournment Debate is on provision for air passengers with dementia - led by the Conservative, Oliver Colvile.
In Westminster Hall, there are debates on affordable housing in London (9.30am-11am); plutonium disposition (11am-11.30am); West Coast Rail franchise (2.30pm-4pm) and elected mayors outside city regions (4.30pm-5.30pm).
In the Lords (from 2.30pm), after the usual half hour of questions to ministers, the main event is the second reading of the Children and Social Work Bill - Labour's Lord Watson of Invergowrie will put down an early marker expressing the Opposition's displeasure that so many of the core provisions will be left to regulations, to be published later. This runs against the recommendation of the Constitution, Secondary Legislation and Delegated Powers Committees of the Lords, who're concerned that too much major policy is pushed through when "skeleton bills" are fleshed out, after they've been passed. The argument is that this undermines proper scrutiny.
This is particularly important, Labour say, when Clauses 20 - 40 of the bill provide for the secretary of state to set up a new regulator of social workers (which could actually be the secretary of state).
This power and all details relating to the new regulator are left to secondary legislation which the House has yet to see - and the Labour calls on the government to publish the draft regulations before the House considers those clauses in committee.
The Commons begins (11.30am) with Cabinet Office questions - followed at noon by the last Prime Minister's question time before the EU referendum, which will doubtless be a pretty charged occasion. Afterwards, the euro-vibe will continue with a Labour Opposition Day debate on the economic benefits of the United Kingdom's membership of the European Union.
They don't normally nominate the subject of their debates as early as this - but on this occasion, I suppose, it's a no-brainer.
In Westminster Hall, the debates cover jobs and livelihoods in developing countries, led by Conservative development specialist Jeremy Lefroy (9.30am-11am); infrastructure and regulations to support electric and low-emission vehicles (11am-11.30am); further education colleges and skills in Greater Manchester (2.30pm- 4pm); support for social investment (4pm-4.30pm) and, finally the Conservative Wendy Morton has a debate (4.30pm-5.30pm) aimed at highlighting the effect of the EU's proposals to achieve a 40% reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 on the UK ceramics industry - a big employer in her West Midlands constituency - it may have to buy all its carbon allowance after 2021, imposing what she warns will be "a huge economic burden".
In the Lords, 11am question time is followed by a debate on a series of European Union Committee select committee reports on "The EU referendum and EU reform", "The process of withdrawing from the European Union", plus the Science and Technology Committee report on  "EU Membership and UK Science".
And then there is a debate on the European Union Committee reports on "The EU Action Plan against migrant smuggling" and "Operation Sophia, the EU's naval mission in the Mediterranean: an impossible challenge".
And with that, Parliament rises for the EU referendum.
MPs and Peers are due to return on 27 June - there's even a published agenda. But whether they stick to it rather depends on the referendum result. They may even come back for a Saturday sitting - the first since the Falklands War - if there is a vote to leave. Certainly there are contingency plans in place, for that eventuality.


League Two side Crewe Alexandra have signed goalkeeper Andrew Dawber on a deal until the end of the season.

The 22-year-old former Accrington man has joined after Dave Richards broke a finger in a reserve match.
Dawber has had spells with Fulham, Aldershot and Bishop's Stortford and spent the first half of the season with National League North side Altrincham.
He has trained with David Artell's side in recent weeks and is set to be on the bench against Newport on Saturday.
Find all the latest football transfers on our dedicated page.


A gambler who emptied a man's bank account of almost half a million pounds and spent it within hours in casinos has been jailed for seven years.

Shah Hussain Ali, 42, set up a false bank account and transferred the money from victim, John Craig's account.
Ali, from Albury Road, Redhill, Surrey admitted two charges of fraud and two of possessing false identity documents.
Mr Craig, from Plymouth, has since had the £460,000 reimbursed, Exeter Crown Court heard.
Ali managed to obtain details of his bank account, possibly from a corrupt HBOS employee, and set about a carefully planned operation to steal his money, the court heard.
He also carried out another scam by using people's credit card details to make £350,000 worth of transfers through an Exeter-based company.
Judge Francis Gilbert told Ali: "This was a sophisticated and complicated chain of fraudulent events.
"Mr Craig has been reimbursed by the bank but must have suffered a pretty nasty shock when he was told he only had £13,000 left in his account.
"You played a leading role in offences which required sophisticated planning and had a large number of victims."
Mark Butler, mitigating, said Ali had not been in trouble before and his offending stemmed from his gambling addiction.
He said: "He and his family ran restaurants in and around London and he also had a business as a mortgage adviser but he has a serious gambling addiction and has spent something around £500,000 in casinos.
"He has lost his family business and his savings."
Co-defendant William White, 53, of Barnfield Hill, Exeter, has already been jailed for three years and one month for allowing his company Whitehaze to be used in processing fraudulent card transactions.


Rory McIlroy lies nine shots off the lead after carding a four-over-par 74 in the first round of the US PGA Championship at Baltusrol.

The Northern Irishman had three bogeys in his first seven holes in a birdie-free round at the final major of 2016.
American Jimmy Walker leads on five under, one clear of England's Ross Fisher, Martin Kaymer of Germany and Emiliano Grillo of Argentina.
Defending champion Jason Day and England's Andrew Johnston carded 70s.
Johnston, who goes by the nickname 'Beef', delighted crowds at The Open earlier in July and the Englishman was again centre of attention in New Jersey, high-fiving spectators on his way to the green after playing a remarkable shot under tree branches but over a scoreboard on the 15th.
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His compatriot Andy Sullivan birdied three of his last four holes to finish with a three-under 67.
"I'm buzzing with that start," said the former supermarket worker, who has finished 12th, sixth and fifth in his last three events.
The US PGA Championship traditionally puts the winners of the year's three previous majors together for the opening two rounds so Masters champion Danny Willett, US Open winner Dustin Johnson and Open victory Henrik Stenson were the marquee group.
World number five Stenson, who held off Phil Mickelson to win The Open at Troon earlier in July, fared the best of the trio with five birdies and two bogeys in his three-under 67.
American Johnson, ranked second in the world, had a dreadful opening, with a double bogey and three bogeys in his first seven holes.
A birdie on the par-three ninth was the only highlight in his seven-over 77 that featured another double bogey on the 11th and a bogey on the par-five 18th after his drive landed in water.
Englishman Willett opened with five pars but a birdie and two bogeys in the next four holes saw him reach the turn in one over and that is how he stayed after birdies on the 15th and 18th cancelled out bogeys on the 11th and 13th holes.
The world number four was playing alongside Australian Day and American Phil Mickelson, who pushed Stenson close at The Open.
McIlroy missed two birdie putts in his first two holes and would end up taking 35 shots with the putter.
"Tee to green is not the problem, but when I get to the greens it's a different story," said the 27-year-old, who won in 2012 and 2014 and has recorded three other top-eight finishes in seven appearances in US PGA Championship.
"I had a couple of chances early on that I could not convert and then missed a couple of greens and did not get up and down and I was always chasing it from there.
"I really struggled with the pace. They look much quicker than they are and two or three times I had putts within 12 feet that were downhill and left them short.
"I need to be more aggressive and shoot something in the mid-60s and get into the weekend."
Day, who had only one practice round after catching a bug off his son and then spending Tuesday night in hospital after his wife suffered an allergic reaction, had three birdies and a bogey in his two-under round.
"It's not the first time that the kids and myself and (wife) Ellie have been sick," said the Australian who hit 17 greens in regulation.
"It's not going to be the last time. It's speed bumps that you have got to try and slow down and get around. Come out and execute."
Mickelson, who briefly joined McIlroy at four over, battled back to one over with three birdies in five holes.
The last year in which all four majors were claimed by first-time winners was 2011, when Charl Schwartzel won the US Masters, McIlroy the US Open, Darren Clarke The Open and Keegan Bradley the US PGA.
Walker, who won five times between October 2013 and March 2015 but has struggled this year, would join Willett, Johnson and Stenson as a first-time winner if he were to hold on.
"I feel like I've prepared and I'm ready to go," said the 37-year-old. "Winning a major would be huge but there's three days to go.
"It's been a stale and stagnant year. I haven't been making the 18-footers you need to make to start running up the leaderboard and to have high finishes."
Fisher leads the way after carding five birdies in his four-under 66. "I've got off to a great start, but I'm not going to sit back on that," he said.
Fellow Englishmen Chris Wood, Paul Casey and Lee Westwood - who finished with a birdie and an eagle on the final two holes, both par fives - opened with one-under-par 69s, the same score as Welsh duo Bradley Dredge and Jamie Donaldson.
England's Justin Rose battled back from two over after 10 to finish level par, while Scotland's Russell Knox birdied the ninth, his last, to also post 70.
World number three Jordan Spieth, who won the Masters and US Open last year, drove erratically, hitting fewer than half of the fairways - but scrambled well to post a level-par 70 that featured one double bogey, two birdies and 15 pars.
Bubba Watson, ranked sixth, was three over after 10 holes but birdied the 649-yard par-five 17th and then hit a 380-yard drive on the par-five last to help set up another birdie to finish on one over.
Rickie Fowler bogeyed his opening hole, the 10th, but four birdies in his next eight saw the world number seven reach halfway on three under and the American signed for a two-under 68,
Australia's Adam Scott had two bogeys and two birdies in a level-par start to his challenge, while Spain's Sergio Garcia birdied the second but fell away to two over before a birdie on the par-five 18th lifted him back to one over.


A children's home has been temporarily closed over allegations of physical abuse by staff.

Concerns about the home, in Blackpool, were raised last month and its licence was suspended after inspectors visited on Friday, said Ofsted.
Police said all of the children at the home have been "appropriately safeguarded" and enquiries were continuing.
The firm which runs the home has been approached for comment.
An Ofsted spokesman said: "Inspectors visited the home on Friday and decided to suspend its registration.
"We will continue working with other agencies on their ongoing investigations.
"In the meantime, children who were living at the home have been moved to other locations."


A soldier in Burundi has been shot dead by a policeman during a demonstration in the capital, Bujumbura.

A witness told the BBC the soldier was hit by accident after police starting shooting at demonstrators.
Protests against President Pierre Nkurunziza's third-term bid have continued despite a ban.
There have been weeks of tension in Burundi after Mr Nkurunziza said he would be a candidate in June's election.
The shooting happened in the Nyakabiga district of Bujumbura. Police eventually withdrew from parts of the neighbourhood leaving the army to restore order, the BBC's Andrew Harding reports from the city.
There has not been an easy relationship between the army and the police, with the police resenting the army's tolerant attitude towards the protests, our correspondent says.
Last week, there was a failed coup against Mr Nkurunziza - senior officials from both the army and police have been arrested and accused of involvement.
Earlier, Burundi's President Pierre Nkurunziza postponed parliamentary elections due on 26 May for 10 days.
He made the decision after a recommendation from the electoral commission, a spokesman said.
Mr Nkrunziza has been under pressure to delay June's presidential election, but there has been no mention of that.
The African Union and the EU have called for a postponement of the presidential vote and said there should be dialogue to ease the tension.
Mr Nkurunziza has so far rejected that demand, saying the election will go ahead as planned.
Mr Nkurunziza's critics say the third term contravenes the constitution, which requires him to step down after two terms.
They reject a ruling of Burundi's Constitutional Court that Mr Nkurunziza's first term does not count because he was elected by parliament and not voters.
The UN refugee agency says that more than 105,000 people have fled Burundi into neighbouring countries since the conflict started.
Mr Nkurunziza, a former rebel leader, has been president since 2005.
10.4m population
50 years - life expectancy for a man
2nd poorest country in the world
85% are Hutu, 14% Tutsi
300,000 died in civil war


Big Bang Theory star Jim Parsons has married the man he calls "the best thing that ever happened" to him, after 14 years together.

He and Todd Spiewak tied the knot at New York's Rainbow Room restaurant on Saturday, according to reports.
It comes as - spoiler alert - his character Sheldon Cooper's slow-burn relationship with Amy also reached a major milestone on the hit sitcom.
The 44-year-old is one of the highest-paid TV stars in the US.
He shares that title with Big Bang co-stars Kaley Cuoco and Johnny Galecki, who all get paid an estimated $900,000 (Â£696,000) for each episode of the comedy, about a group of highly intelligent - but slightly socially inept - friends.
Last year, Parsons marked his anniversary with Spiewak by sharing a picture of them on Instagram singing karaoke, writing: "I met this guy (the one with the mic) 14 years ago today and it was the best thing that ever happened to me, no contest.
"One of his greatest gifts to me is that he no longer takes me to sing karaoke."
In a 2015 interview he was asked if he and Spiewak planned to marry.
"I don't know - I guess I kind of think so but there's no date in the book, or ring on the finger," he told US chat show The View, pointing out he had grown up thinking gay marriage would not be a possibility.
But he added: "I have grown more interested in the idea and certainly supportive of the notion."
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Could you live without your tablet, mobile or games for a whole week?

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What would you do instead? Play board games with friends and family, do some sport or watch TV?
A Head Teacher in Shropshire was so fed up with his pupils being glued to their technology he asked them to try to give it up for seven days. They say the results showed children spent more time with family, they played sport outside and read a lot more books.
Figures show one in three children between the age of five and fifteen have their own tablet.
Watch Graham Satchell's report for Newsround.


The girlfriend of a man who died on a stretch of road where more than 50 people have been killed or injured in the last five years has called for tougher speed restrictions.

Gavin Roberts, 28, died of a brain injury on 15 June, four days after the collision on the A34 near the Compton junction in Oxfordshire.
Megan Williamson's petition calls for the speed limit to be reduced.
One month on from the crash that killed him she said "changes need to be made".
"I just knew that Gavin would not want anybody to suffer as we have," she said.
She wants the speed limit reduced from 70 mph to 50 mph, saying "people treat it like a motorway and it is a very narrow road".
"There's no hard shoulder either, so if there are any accidents the emergency vehicles find it difficult to get down there."
Mr Roberts was originally from Australia but had recently moved to Swindon where he worked for Network Rail.
On the night of the collision, a Vauxhall Corsa travelling southbound smashed through the central reservation and into the path of Mr Roberts' BMW.
Richard Hayes, the chief executive of the Institute of Highway Engineers, said Ms Williamson's suggestion would make the road safer, and called for the A34 to be upgraded.
He added: "I'm absolutely sure [the barriers] are not as integrated as they should be... and that may well be eased by reducing the speed limit."
The carriageway was closed 15 times in 2015 due to fatalities or injuries, and 56 times in the last five years, Highways England confirmed.
A spokesman said safety was its top priority, and that it monitored the A34 on an ongoing basis.
"Our thoughts go out to all those affected by the recent tragic incident," he said.
Thames Valley Police said no arrests had been made following the collision and it was still appealing for witnesses.


The World Bowls Championships will go ahead in Christchurch, despite the earthquake that struck New Zealand.

The venues for the quadrennial event for outdoor bowls are just over 100 miles from the epicentre of the 7.8 magnitude quake which struck on Sunday.
The championships start on 29 November and run until 11 December.
"Everything's been checked out, we feel it is safe, but there is constant monitoring," World Bowls director Garry Collins told BBC Radio Guernsey.
"If we feel at some point that we expect more of these things then we'll push that button and the championships will be halted."
Two people were killed and warships from Australia, Canada and the United States have been brought in to help the New Zealand navy evacuate people form the town of Kaikoura, which was near the epicentre of the quake.
Christchurch is still rebuilding from a major earthquake in 2011 which killed 185 people and caused millions of dollars in damage.
Over 100 players from 35 countries are set to compete in the event, which alongside the Commonwealth Games is seen as one of the most important tournaments in outdoor bowls.
"There was no damage to the facilities we have in our control," added Guernsey-based Collins, who was elected onto the board of the sport's governing body, World Bowls, last month.
"We've had assurances from the people on the ground and from our officials that everything's okay."


The Football Association says it will continue to back Michel Platini's bid to become president of Fifa, despite his links to a corruption inquiry.

Investigators are probing payments made to the Uefa president by Fifa counterpart Sepp Blatter.
The FA announced in July it was backing the Frenchman for the role and said on Wednesday: "We are still of that view."
However, it added: "Events of recent days have raised a number of issues which do need to be fully examined."
Platini, 60, is being treated "in between a witness and an accused person", say Swiss investigators.
The FA board met on Wednesday and later said it maintained its "unanimous" support for Platini.
Blatter has said he will step down from football's world governing body in February, with Platini among those who will stand for the post.
Explaining its support for the former France international, the FA said: "We thought he was an excellent president of Uefa and could bring those same leadership qualities to Fifa."
But it stressed: "We are following the ongoing investigation initiated by the Swiss attorney general which Mr Platini is co-operating with in full."
Swiss prosecutors are looking into a payment made to Platini in 2011 for work he completed for Blatter almost a decade earlier.
Last week, Swiss prosecutors announced they were investigating Blatter on suspicion of criminal mismanagement in relation to that payment.
The attorney general's office said he was suspected of signing a contract that was "unfavourable to Fifa" and making a "disloyal payment" to Platini.
Both men have denied any wrongdoing.
The pair are also facing an investigation by Fifa's ethics committee over the issue.


Detectives investigating four drugs-related deaths in South Yorkshire have said two other people were taken "gravely ill".

Their lives were saved by the "quick thinking" of paramedics on Monday, police said.
The deaths in Barnsley on Good Friday are not believed to be linked to two other drug-related deaths in West Yorkshire.
Toxicology reports are expected in the next few days.
Ch Supt Rob Odell, of South Yorkshire Police, said: "In addition to the deaths reported to police, on Monday we received two separate reports of individuals becoming gravely ill after taking suspected illegal substances.
"Thanks to the quick actions of paramedics, those individuals survived."
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He said one of the four South Yorkshire deaths was "potentially linked to a pre-existing medical condition".
However, detectives are keeping an "open mind" and the other deaths could be due to an "unusually strong supply, or something added to the drugs", Mr Odell said.
"We understand there have been further deaths in the West Yorkshire region that may also be connected to drugs use," Mr Odell said.
"We are in contact with West Yorkshire Police officers but at this stage, we do not believe the deaths are linked. We will keep an open mind as our investigations continue."
Police have appealed for anyone with concern or information to contact them, and to seek medical help if they have taken a substance and feel unwell.