Families and even health care workers need to get used to talking about death more to make it easier, a palliative care specialist has said.

Hospice consultant nurse Dinah Hickish said demystifying fears could help make dying feel like a "normal process".
Ms Hickish, based St Kentigern Hospice, St Asaph, Denbighshire, spoke out to mark Dying Matters Awareness Week.
In Pembrokeshire, a festival called Pushing up the Daisies included a public tour of a crematorium.
Ms Hickish said: "People, following the loss of a loved one, can be extremely isolated because [other] people find it so difficult to know what to say.
"Talking about death demystifies fears. It helps people to get their houses in order."
She said she had seen "numerous examples where, if people had had the conversations, a catalogue of distress could have been avoided".
Ms Hickish highlighted a "typical" scenario where a family accompany their loved one to the hospice and, during an initial assessment, tell her nurse "'he doesn't know he's dying, please don't tell him'".
"Immediately, I know things will just get more complicated for the loved ones and that basic decisions, such as whether he wanted to be cremated or buried, will not have been discussed," she said.
A series of events have been held in Wales over the past seven days to mark Dying Matters Awareness Week.
In Pembrokeshire, there was a flower arranging workshop for memorial arrangements organised by the Paul Sartori Foundation, a hospice-at-home charity in the county.
Other events included a public tour of Parc Gwyn crematorium at Narberth.
"It's not for everybody but I think things like this are important," said James Allen, crematorium superintendent registrar.
Ms Hickish, who has worked at the hospice for more than a decade, said: "For us here at the hospice, we sometimes have an extremely limited time to try and gently support people into discussing some of these choices, and generally we are able to do this but sometimes it just is not possible.
"And then you know that people will have not said their goodbyes... and that their grieving process will be so much harder."
Ms Hickish became Wales' first consultant nurse in palliative care this year at St Kentigern Hospice, a charity which provides specialist care for adults in the Conwy, Denbighshire and Flintshire area.
She said some health care professionals who work outside palliative and hospice care can also find it difficult to discuss death and dying.
"In a health culture where death is seen as a failure, discussing it seems to admit to that failure," she said.
"If we are all comfortable talking about death than that actually makes communication between healthcare professionals and patients much more meaningful and true."


Jeremy Clarkson has joked he is making a "pilot Radio 2 breakfast show" after DJ Chris Evans said he was making "a secret Top Gear film".

Evans told Channel 4's Sunday's Brunch he was filming a "Top Gear sequence" this week, leading many to speculate he was going to present the BBC show.
However it would appear the sequence is linked to the one-off return of Evans's TFI Friday TV show on 12 June.
Formula 1 team Manor was seen carrying a logo for the programme this weekend.
Evans tweeted a picture of driver Will Stevens at the Canadian Grand Prix and later re-tweeted a message from a fan saying: "Busted! The secret TG episode is you with Manor Marussia."
There was much media speculation Evans had taken over Clarkson's Top Gear hosting duties after Sunday Brunch's Tim Lovejoy jokingly asked him if he had started to present the show.
Evans responded: "Not started yet, but we are doing a secret Top Gear film on Tuesday."
When asked to clarify if the sequence was for Top Gear, Evans said: "We're doing a Top Gear sequence with an independent production company and we're going to see how it goes."
Evans has been a favourite to take over Clarkson's presenting duties on the BBC Two show following his suspension and subsequent sacking after he assaulted a producer.
However the DJ has repeatedly ruled himself out of the job.
Clarkson later tweeted: "Next week, I'm doing a pilot Radio 2 breakfast show with an independent production company. We'll see how it goes."
Fellow Top Gear hosts Richard Hammond and James May also joined in with the joke, referencing Evans's other TV projects.
Hammond tweeted: "Next week I'm doing a pilot of The Two Show on Fridays with an independent production company. We'll see how it goes."
May added: "I'm working on a new TV idea, with an independent production company, called TFI Thursday. We'll see how it goes."
It is still unclear what will happen to Top Gear for its next series.
It was reported last week Hammond and May had been offered Â£1m deals to stay with the show, which could see different guest hosts each week rather than a direct replacement for Clarkson.
The BBC said is would not comment on "speculation" following Evans's comments.


A father and son who died after being hit by a car in Rhondda Cynon Taff have been named by police as Stuart and Fraser Bates.

Mr Bates, 43, and Fraser, seven, were struck on the A4119 at Talbot Green at about 00:30 GMT on Sunday.
A 22-year-old driver of an Alfa Romeo has been arrested and bailed, South Wales Police said.
Wife and mother Anna-Louise Bates called Mr Bates "my wonderful husband" and Fraser "our bear".
The pair were struck while crossing the carriageway near the Arthur Llewellyn Jenkins furniture store, near Llantrisant.
Mr Bates, from Llanishen, Cardiff, an IT programme manager for PHS in Caerphilly, died at the Royal Glamorgan Hospital shortly after the crash.
Fraser, a pupil at Llysfaen Primary School in Cardiff, died on Sunday night at the Bristol Children's Hospital.
Mrs Bates said: "Stu was my Mr Wonderful. Fraser was 'our Bear' and his initials spelled out FAB - he was indeed Fab by name and Fab by nature.
"Together with three-year old-Elizabeth we were a family of four, but I know everybody we met over the years became part of our extended family."
Mrs Bates said she believed the pair would be singing the song 'Forever Young' in heaven while playing football with Fraser's hero, former Manchester United footballer Duncan Edwards.
"Look after each other my bears," she added.
Headmistress of Llysfaen Primary School, Melanie Sancto, described Fraser as "a bottle of pop, a fun-loving, beautiful little boy".
She said: "He had lots of friends and was so well thought of by everyone here.
"We will all remember him as happy, funny and, most of all, football mad. The game was a huge part of Fraser's and Stuart's lives."
Ms Sancto added that Mr Bates played a big part in the school community.
"Our heartfelt thoughts, support and love go out to Anna-Louise and the family," she added.
A funeral will take place at St Martin's Church in Roath, Cardiff, at a later date.
South Wales Police is continuing to investigate the crash.


Armed police in the Republic of Ireland have been manning checkpoints in a bid to prevent retaliation for the murder of a man at a boxing weigh-in in Dublin.

The man who died was David Byrne, 33, from Raleigh Square in Crumlin in the south of the city.
Police now believe at least six people were involved in the gun attack at the Regency Hotel on Friday afternoon.
They said they were making progress in identifying some of them.
Two other men were injured in the attack at the hotel at about 14:30 local time. One has since checked himself out of hospital. Irish broadcaster RTÉ is reporting that the other man was shot in the chest.
RTÉ said the checkpoints are due to continue for at least the next few days.
Armed police have been manning checkpoints in Dublin city centre. Police are maintaining a presence at the Regency Hotel and have indicated they will be making international inquiries as part of their investigation through Interpol, Europol, and their liaison officers in the UK and Spain.
Police said three of those involved in the attack wore police-style SWAT team uniforms.
Those dressed in the police uniforms were armed with assault rifles.
One of the other gunmen was dressed as a woman and wore a blonde or auburn wig. The other was described as being middle-aged and stocky and wore a beige cap. They were both armed with handguns.
The sixth gang member was driving a getaway van.
A van was found burned out a short time after the shooting in the Charlemont estate in the Marino area of Dublin.
Police have appealed for information from anyone who may have seen a silver Ford Transit van in the vicinity of the Regency Hotel between 13:30 and 14:30 local time on Friday afternoon.
"Did anybody see this van in the vicinity of Swords Road, Griffith Avenue or the Charlemont estate in Marino between 14:30 and 15:00 or at any time in any location in the last number of days?" Assistant Commissioner Jack Nolan added.
The shooting happened during a weigh-in for a World Boxing Organization (WBO) title fight between Jamie Kavanagh and Antonio Joao Bento.
Mr Kavanagh tweeted to say he was "OK", adding: "I was lucky today is all I can say."
Irish Prime Minister Enda Kenny described the attack as "a new low".
The Catholic Archbishop of Dublin, Diarmuid Martin, said the shooting was "despicable".
RTÉ has reported that police are concerned that there could be retaliation for the attack.
The broadcaster has said police suspect the shooting could be related to an ongoing feud between two criminal gangs following the murder of Dubliner Gary Hutch in Spain last year.
It said Mr Byrne was well-known to police and had been questioned several times over serious and organised crime.
BBC Radio Foyle's sports reporter Kevin McAnena, who was at the weigh-in, said he "never felt terror like it" when one of the attackers pointed a gun at him.
He said he saw one of the gunmen shoot a man in the leg "about six feet away" from him.
"I heard two loud gunshots from outside coming into the hotel," he said.
"At which point, two men, who I thought were [police] officers - turns out they were just dressed up in [police] uniform - came in with guns."
He said he believed "the man I saw shot is the man that is now dead".
The pay-per-view channel Box Nation was due to broadcast Saturday's fight as part of the Clash of the Clans show at Dublin's National Stadium.
But it said the event had now been cancelled.


St Johnstone won the first major trophy of their 130-year history after beating Dundee United to lift the Scottish Cup.

Steven Anderson and Steven MacLean scored in each half at Celtic Park, with Saints striker Stevie May having a goal ruled out for handball.
United twice hit the woodwork but were unable to stem their opponents, or deploy their usual attacking aplomb.
And it was a deserved triumph for the Perth side, built on a display of solid intent and organisation.
MacLean was a fitting scorer since his work-rate was typical of Tommy Wright's side.
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For once, competitiveness was a hindrance. The teams were so well-matched they tended to cancel each other out and moments of inspiration were restricted, as much by familiarity as any overbearing sense of occasion.
It was always unlikely that a player could catch an opponent unawares when this was the teams' fifth meeting of the season.
All the same, individuals could be out-witted by their own sense of alarm.
St Johnstone goalkeeper Alan Mannus has been a reliable figure throughout the campaign, but he spilled an early Ryan Dow cross and never wholly recovered his self-assurance.
With United's Nadir Ciftci and May both strong and adept enough to hold the ball up when it reached them in attack, play was able to swing from one end to the other with pleasing enough pace. Chances tended to arise out of resourcefulness rather than any sustained attacking pressure.
James Dunne, for instance, was deft and agile enough to react when the ball broke to him at the edge of the United penalty area. He arched his body so that he could meet the ball with a stinging volley, but the effort was matched by the ability of goalkeeper Radoslaw Cierzniak to tip the ball over with a stretching save.
St Johnstone were the more composed side. United often relying on the counter-attack rather than establishing rhythm or control, but while Ciftci was intermittently involved, the trio of attackers behind him - Dow, Stuart Armstrong and Gary Mackay-Steven - struggled to deliver their usual swift incisiveness.
Half-an-hour had gone before they rediscovered that zest, but it was enough to distress the St Johnstone defenders. None of them reacted quickly enough to Andrew Robertson's run and cross, allowing Dow to nick the ball with his heel and send it bouncing off the upright.
Nerves were beginning to fray, which might have explained why the United defenders were not well-organised enough to cope with a corner kick just before half-time.
It was a conventional delivery - Wotherspoon swinging the ball to the back post - but Anderson had the time and space to hang in mid-air before heading it into the net, after Cierzniak had left his goal and failed to reach the ball.
There was only enough time to restart the game before the half-time whistle blew.
United had to dwell on the setback, but that fired their resolve and they were eager after the break.
Attitude alone would not recover the scoreline, but Ciftci was capable of moments of accomplishment and his free-kick from 20 yards was almost perfectly crafted. The ball bounced off the underside of the bar, though, and Mannus eventually managed to smother it on the line.
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Tension grew as the game progressed. The lead was such a narrow margin that anxiety seemed the primary concern.
There appeared no other explanation for the way May pushed the ball over the line with his hand after his close-range header had been saved. The striker could, after all, have left the ball in the hope that someone else in the crowded six-yard box applied the finishing touch.
St Johnstone had to be wary of themselves. The instinct was to drop ever deeper, although United were still restricted to long-range efforts.
Robertson saw one shot saved, while Ciftci sent another narrowly wide. That was in keeping with their general performance.
United never could shift the forlorn nature of their play and they could not cope with the determined aggression of MacLean. When the ball broke to him in the penalty area, he slid in to challenge Cierzniak before turning the ball over the line while grounded.
United only had five minutes left to rescue the game, but that had never seemed likely as an Armstrong effort was blocked and Brian Graham headed wide from inside the six yard box.
The triumph already belonged to St Johnstone.
Match ends, St Johnstone 2, Dundee United 0.
Second Half ends, St Johnstone 2, Dundee United 0.
Nadir Ciftci (Dundee United) is shown the yellow card.
Steven Anderson (St Johnstone) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Nadir Ciftci (Dundee United).
Attempt missed. Brian Graham (Dundee United) header from very close range is close, but misses to the left following a corner.
Corner,  Dundee United. Conceded by Frazer Wright.
Attempt blocked. Stuart Armstrong (Dundee United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is blocked.
Foul by Steven MacLean (St Johnstone).
Gavin Gunning (Dundee United) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Gavin Gunning (Dundee United) is shown the yellow card.
Chris Millar (St Johnstone) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by Gavin Gunning (Dundee United).
Attempt saved. Ryan Dow (Dundee United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the centre of the goal.
Substitution, St Johnstone. Gary McDonald replaces David Wotherspoon.
Steven MacLean (St Johnstone) is shown the yellow card.
Goal!  St Johnstone 2, Dundee United 0. Steven MacLean (St Johnstone) right footed shot from the centre of the box to the centre of the goal.
Attempt missed. Nadir Ciftci (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is close, but misses to the left.
Steve May (St Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Keith Watson (Dundee United).
Attempt missed. Brian Graham (Dundee United) left footed shot from the centre of the box is close, but misses to the left.
Attempt missed. Steve May (St Johnstone) right footed shot from a difficult angle and long range on the left misses to the right.
Substitution, Dundee United. Brian Graham replaces Paul Paton.
Substitution, St Johnstone. Lee Croft replaces Michael O'Halloran.
Attempt missed. David Mackay (St Johnstone) header from the centre of the box misses to the right.
Corner,  St Johnstone. Conceded by Andrew Robertson.
Steven MacLean (St Johnstone) wins a free kick in the defensive half.
Foul by Sean Dillon (Dundee United).
Attempt missed. Keith Watson (Dundee United) right footed shot from the centre of the box is too high.
Corner,  Dundee United. Conceded by Steven Anderson.
Attempt blocked. Ryan Dow (Dundee United) right footed shot from outside the box is blocked.
Michael O'Halloran (St Johnstone) wins a free kick in the attacking half.
Foul by John Rankin (Dundee United).
Hand ball by James Dunne (St Johnstone).
Corner,  St Johnstone. Conceded by Paul Paton.
Attempt missed. David Wotherspoon (St Johnstone) right footed shot from outside the box is high and wide to the right.
Substitution, Dundee United. Ryan Gauld replaces Gary Mackay-Steven because of an injury.
Corner,  Dundee United. Conceded by Alan Mannus.
Attempt saved. Andrew Robertson (Dundee United) left footed shot from outside the box is saved in the top left corner.
Attempt saved. David Wotherspoon (St Johnstone) right footed shot from the right side of the box is saved in the centre of the goal.


Exeter Chiefs scrum-half Haydn Thomas will retire at the end of the season after 211 appearances for the club.

Thomas started his career with Chiefs in League One in 2003, before moving to Premiership side Gloucester in 2005.
The 34-year-old also had a spell with Bristol before rejoining Exeter in 2009, helping them win promotion to the Premiership in the 2009-10 season.
He will stay with the club in an unspecified role with the academy side following his retirement.
"Being part of the Chiefs journey out of the Championship and then into the Premiership, where we've really established ourselves as a club has been amazing," he told the club website.
"What I've achieved, especially here at the Chiefs, is something I'm very proud of.
"To get to do a job that you love every day, working alongside some of your best friends, I don't think you can't really ask for any more than that."
Exeter are second in the Premiership table ahead of the final game of the season, already assured of a place in the play-offs.


Sarah-Jane Perry became the third English woman to reach the British Open quarter-finals in Hull with victory over Tesni Evans of Wales.

Perry, the seventh seed, won 11-5 11-8 11-8 to join Laura Massaro and Emily Whitlock in the last eight.
She goes on to face Australia's Donna Urquhart, who beat Egyptian qualifier Nada Abbas 11-3 11-8 6-11 11-1.
"It's fantastic that we've got three English women through to the quarter-finals," Perry told the PSA World Tour.
"I can't remember that happening many times at the British Open, it shows that we're really pushing on and challenging the Egyptian reign."
Malaysia's five-time champion Nicole David, seeded sixth, saw off Hong Kong's 14th seed Joey Chan 11-4 14-12 9-11 11-2.
French second seed Camille Serme beat Nour El Tayeb of Egypt 11-8, 11-9, 5-11, 11-9.
In the men's event, France's former champion and third seed Gregory Gaultier was impressive in a 11-1 11-3 11-2 win over Australia's Cameron Pilley.
There were wins too for another former champion, Ramy Ashour of Egypt, and France's Mathieu Castagnet, while  Mohamed Abouelghar beat second seed and fellow Egyptian Karim Abdel Gawad.
England's three-time winner Nick Matthew is already through to the quarter-finals.


Retail sales in Scotland have grown in real terms for a third month in a row, according to a report.

The Scottish Retail Consortium (SRC) and KPMG Retail Sales Monitor found total sales fell by 1.5% last month, compared with November 2015.
However, when adjusted for deflation, sales were found to have risen by 0.2% in real terms.
Total food sales were found to be flat on last November, while non-food dropped 2.7% compared with a year ago.
SRC said figures for the last three months had been "promising".
Director David Lonsdale said: "Total retail sales in Scotland recorded a third successive month of real-terms positive growth, albeit at a pace less marked than in October.
"This promising news was underpinned by further improvements in grocery sales, which grew for a third month in a row - the best quarterly performance in almost three years.
"Non-food sales were heavily driven by online sales arising from Black Friday.
"Promotional and discounting activity by retailers around cyber-weekend led to electricals and electronic goods performing particularly well last month, as did fragrances."
He added: "The two months leading up to Christmas account for a fifth of annual retail spending and these figures provide grounds for optimism for the rest of this crucial trading period."
Craig Cavin, head of retail in Scotland at KPMG, added: "Online is the new black in 2016 as cyber sales drove much of the growth while stealing the show on Black Friday.
"This may well herald the tone of years to come, with increasingly sophisticated online sales technology giving consumers a convenient yet rich shopping experience without the hassle of crowds."


Three Spanish journalists are missing in Syria and are thought to have been kidnapped, Spanish media have said.

The three men, Antonio Pampliega, Jose Manuel Lopez and Angel Sastre, were working in the northern city of Aleppo.
They have not been heard from since shortly after entering Syria via Turkey on 10 July, according to the Spanish press association FAPE.
The Spanish foreign ministry said it was aware of the situation and was "working on it".
"We don't know (if they were together) doing their investigative reports in Aleppo, just that another three Spanish journalists were kidnapped in the same area nearly a year ago," said FAPE president Elsa Gonzalez.
The Islamic State (IS) group, which has kidnapped and killed Western journalists in Syria over the past year, controls areas in the north and east of Aleppo province.
The city of Aleppo has been the scene of daily fighting between forces belonging to the Syrian regime and rebel groups for more than three years.
Fighting on the ground and government air strikes have left thousands dead, and destroyed more than 60% of the Old City.


Italy's Olympic chiefs want 26 of the country's athletes banned for two years over alleged doping offences.

All 26 are accused of evading tests but say there was an administrative error.
The list includes Fabrizio Donato, triple jump bronze medallist at London 2012, and Andrew Howe, who took silver in the long jump at the 2007 World Championships.
They will face trials at the Italian Olympic Committee's anti-doping court, with rulings expected next year.
Five of the 26 athletes have already qualified for next year's Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.


Vladimir Putin's visit to Tehran this week has been greeted with much enthusiasm in official circles.

There has been warm praise for his decision to head straight from the airport to a meeting with Iran's Supreme leader, Ayatollah Khamenei.
And the encounter apparently went so well that Iran's veteran former foreign minister Ali Akbar Velayati was moved to describe it as "the best and the most important in the whole history of the Islamic Republic".
Although few details have emerged of what was said between the two, the Iranian media has widely quoted a comment attributed to Mr Putin, assuring the Ayatollah that "Unlike some others, we never stab our allies in the back".
It is clear that for Tehran, getting Moscow on side for the campaign in Syria has been a big foreign policy coup.
It was also a huge relief after a difficult summer in which it was becoming increasingly clear that Iran and its allies Hezbollah and the Syrian army were struggling to support Bashar Assad on the ground.
With the death toll of Iranian revolutionary guards forces rising weekly, President Putin's decision to bring Russia into the conflict was clearly good news for Iran and has helped for now to stabilise the Syrian regime.
But not all Iranians are convinced an alliance with Russia is a good idea and President Putin's visit has prompted many to take to social media this week to remind their compatriots of some of the less successful moments of recent Iranian-Russian cooperation.
"That lousy nuclear plant you've been building for us in the last 20 years, was meant to be operational ten years ago, it's not even half finished," said one user, raising the thorny issue of the much-delayed Russian-built Bushehr nuclear plant.
You never even once voted against the Security Council Resolutions which have made our lives like hell in the last ten years," said another. "Name three good things that Russian has ever done to Iran"
Behind this scepticism is a difficult shared history between between Iran and Russia stretching back centuries.
For most Iranians, the Russians are the dangerous and unpredictable enemy in north: the people with whom they have fought big battles and suffered bitter defeat.
The Treaty of Turkmenchay in 1828, which set the borders between the Persian and Russian empires, and forced the Persians to concede large swathes of territory to Russia, is still a bye-word in the Persian language for a unfair settlement or contract.
Many question whether a marriage of convenience between two states with such a history of adversary can last, but for now it is clear that Russia and Iran's leaders see their new alliance as their best chance to maintain influence in Syria and in the region as a whole.
And it comes at a time when tensions between Iran and Saudi Arabia show no sign of abating.
President Hassan Rouhani's pledge to reach out to Saudi Arabia and improve relations has so far failed to achieve results and neither has it attracted much popular support.
Increasing numbers of Iranians now see the Saudis as "the enemy" - the country that supports so-called Islamic State (IS) and is therefore a direct threat to Iran.
Agreement between Persia (modern day Iran) and the Russian Empire, which concluded the Russo-Persian War (1826-28).
Signed on 10 February 1828 in Torkamanchay, Iran.
Persia ceded to Russia control of several areas in the South Caucasus: the Erivan Khanate, the Nakhchivan Khanate, and the remainder of the Talysh Khanate.
The boundary between Russian and Persia was set at the Aras River.
These territories now make up parts of modern-day Armenia, Azerbaijan and Turkey.
Such is the animosity that many ordinary Iranians used to criticizing the Revolutionary Guards force as oppressors at home are now hailing them as heroes risking their lives to defend Iran and the Middle East from the extremism of IS.
Viewed from this perspective the Russians have come to the aid of Iran just at the right time to help it in its lonely fight against the extremists moving ever closer to its borders.
And the fact that Moscow's intervention has resulted in some military success on the ground in Syria, means the new alliance is paying dividends.
But many possible fault-lines could open up in Russia's relationship with Iran in the coming months.
One issue could be the future of President Assad.
Iran has made it clear that President Assad must stay on, and his future is non-negotiable.
In Tehran this week both Mr Putin and Ayatollah Khamenei reiterated support for Bashar Assad, but elsewhere Moscow has hinted there may at some stage be more room for manoeuvre.
President Putin came to Iran promising big plans for cooperation and investment in a wide range spheres from oil and gas to construction, power generation and railways.
Hopes are high but with both states now experiencing an economic downturn, how much of this becomes a reality remains a question.
And in Russia some analysts are already warning that in moving closer to Iran, and with it Hezbollah and the Syrian regime, Moscow must be careful not to alienate Sunni countries and risk losing influence in the wider Middle East.
There is a saying in Persian to describe hell: it is a place with scorpions so horrible and venomous that you would find no choice but to find shelter with serpents.
Beyond the smiles in Tehran this week it's a saying Iran and Russia might have cause to remember as their Syrian joint venture unfolds.


A "fit and powerful" ex-boxer has been found guilty of attacking his wife and family over a period of 50 years.

Former coal merchant Patrick Hutton, 71, was found guilty of four assaults on his wife, one on his son and one on his daughter between March 1965 and December 1984.
His ex-wife Rachel, now 70, told Livingston Sheriff Court the violence began when she was just 20.
It escalated over the years to include assaults on their children.
Hutton, from Longridge, West Lothian, had denied a total of 16 charges, of which he was convicted of six following a four-week trial.
The court heard how the couple's son John, now 50, had left home for good at the age of 15 after suffering serious facial injuries.
He told the jury how he escaped through his bedroom window and hid in the woods after one beating.
But his father found him and dragged him home by the hair before nailing the window shut and attacking him.
John Hutton said his father put on steel-capped working boots before kicking him repeatedly on the shins, calling him "worthless" and "good for nothing".
He then stripped all the furniture out of the room, including the light bulb, and made him stay there until his wounds healed.
Mr Hutton also told the court that his father plunged his head under water and slapped, punched and kicked him on the head and body as punishment for doing things wrong.
Once, when he was left to feed his father's chickens at the family coal yard, he threw the entire sack of grain into the compound because he was scared of the birds.
He said the chickens all died from overeating and as punishment his father beat him and locked him in the chicken shed.
Giving evidence from behind a screen, Mrs Hutton said her "fit and powerful" husband trained at a local boxing club and practised judo. He was nearly six feet tall and weighed 14 stone.
The mother-of-four said the attacks on her often happened when they got home after nights out together in a social club near where they lived in Fauldhouse. He would often come home and "give his wife a slap".
She said she had to stare at the floor in pubs because her husband would accuse her of looking at other men and of being unfaithful to him.
One assault left her with a badly-bruised eye and a fractured bone in her nose and she said she nearly lost consciousness on a couple of occasions when he punched her to the floor and tried to strangle her.
She also told how Hutton ripped the trousers off a black suit she had bought to attend her brother's funeral and threw them in the fire.
Another time, she said she needed stitches in a bleeding gash on her head after she struck her head off a stone fireplace.
Despite several numerous referrals to doctors and hospital accident and emergency departments over the years, she said she always lied about the cause of her and her children's injuries on her husband's orders.
In 1983 he had his hands around her throat when their daughter came into the room and told him to leave her mother alone or she would call the police.
Patricia Hutton, 49, said family members had always spoken openly among themselves about Hutton's drunken rages and physical violence but had been too scared to tell anyone else.
Another daughter, Maria Flannigan, said she was also punched on the head when she challenged her father about attacking her mother.
Hutton will be sentenced at a later date.


Temporary changes to maternity and paediatric services in East Sussex are to take effect from Tuesday.

NHS managers at Eastbourne District General Hospital proposed the changes to cope with staffing shortages.
Women whose pregnancies are thought to be low risk will still be able to give birth at its midwife led unit.
However, more complex cases will be sent to Conquest Hospital in Hastings, where women considered low risk can also choose to go.
Consultant obstetrician and gynaecologist Jamal Zaidi said the changes were being made "purely on the grounds of safety".
"The safety of women and babies is our number one priority and we believe that these temporary changes will mean we can provide the best care possible."
Changes are also being made to the way services are provided on the Friston Children's Unit at Eastbourne DGH.
The unit will become a Short Stay Paediatric Assessment Unit which will only assess and treat children who have been referred by their GP.
Any child who is likely to need an overnight stay in hospital will be treated elsewhere, usually at Conquest Hospital.
Dr David Scott, consultant paediatrician, said: "Local parents should be assured that these changes will not affect the safety of the service."


The death of a man who twice apparently jumped from a building has been referred to the Independent Police Complaints Commission.

Nottinghamshire Police were present when the man fell from a building in the Radford area of Nottingham on Friday evening.
A witness told the Nottingham Post he survived the first fall before running to another flat and falling again.
Police are not treating the death of the man, in his mid-30s, as suspicious.
Officers were called to Waterloo Road at about 19:30 GMT.


Cardiff City will seek a personal hearing for defender Sol Bamba after he was charged with threatening behaviour by the Football Association.

The charges follow an incident in Cardiff's 1-1 draw at Ipswich when the Ivory Coast international was sent-off.
"We're going to ask for a personal hearing I think that'll be done today," said manager Neil Warnock.
The 31-year-old has already received a two-game ban for his red card but could face more matches on the sidelines.
Bamba confronted the referee, fourth official and Neil Warnock as he reacted angrily to a Jonathan Douglas tackle.
The player and the club have until 18:00 GMT on Friday to respond to the charge.
Warnock accepts that the player's action were unacceptable, but feels there are areas of the FA report which the club could contest
"We spoke to Sol yesterday [Thursday] and we looked at all the videos that the league have sent us and whilst we agree his conduct wasn't right we do have certain discrepancies in the report we find so we will be looking at a personal hearing for that," he said.
Warnock confirmed Cardiff would look at taking internal disciplinary action against Bamba "as and when" but would not confirm a timetable.


A long-forgotten medieval carol has been set to music for the first time in 500 years as part of an exhibition about monks at Battle Abbey.

The words for Be Mery were found "doodled" in the back of a monk's prayer book dating back to about 1500.
It is the only surviving book of its type from the East Sussex abbey, built on the site of the Battle of Hastings.
Visitors will be able to hear a recording of the song for the first time since the Reformation.
The carol was found by English Heritage historian Dr Michael Carter while he was researching the history of Battle Abbey.
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The service book is now in the library of Trinity College, in Cambridge.
Dr Carter said: "This carol is clear evidence that the Battle monks were very much part of the thriving devotional culture of Catholic England, a culture brutally cut short by the Reformation and the dissolution of the monasteries which extinguished 500 years of religious life at Battle.
"Our new exhibition has been designed to reveal insights into that life, the importance of prayer and worship, the tremendous power and wealth of the abbey and what it was like to be an ordinary monk there."
Be Mery has been performed and recorded for English Heritage by Schola Gregoriana: The Association for Gregorian Chant.
The new permanent exhibition opens on Saturday in the abbey gatehouse.
Source: English Heritage


British men are dangerously ignorant of the prostate gland, according to a men's health charity.

It is crucial for sex as it helps produce semen and is involved in ejaculation.
But it is also the leading cause of cancer in men, with 40,000 diagnosed each year, Prostate Cancer UK says.
A survey by the charity showed nearly one in five men did not even know they had a prostate and men were "blind" to the risk of cancer.
The gland, which is about the size of a walnut, sits below the bladder and in front of the rectum.
It produces the fluid that nourishes sperm.
The survey of 1,900 men found:
Prostate Cancer UK chief executive Angela Culhane, told the BBC News website: "Men are very ignorant about prostate cancer and it's dangerous because it is actually the most common cancer in men.
"The things it does affect - ejaculation and sexual function, urine flow and incontinence - are not regularly talked about over the dinner table or in the pub."
Nearly 11,000 men die from prostate cancer each year.
It can have few symptoms in the early stages, and because of its location most symptoms are linked to urination:
Ms Culhane said: "A man in his 30s with none of the risk factors shouldn't be overly worried - but for men at higher risk, they should have a conversation with their GP or one of our specialist nurses.
"If they have a family history, are black [black men are twice as likely to develop prostate cancer as the overall population] or are over 50, then, generally, they should be thinking about having a conversation.
"As a country, we need to wake up and stop men dying needlessly.
Ignoring prostate cancer won't beat it - only fighting it will."
Former England and Newcastle United footballer Les Ferdinand, who saw his grandfather suffer with the disease at the end of his life, said: "I'm not surprised so many men don't know what their prostate does - it's an easy gland to ignore.
"In fact, until prostate cancer affected my family, my knowledge of the prostate was pretty slim.
"Don't ignore the statistics and don't ignore your risk.
"Join the fight to beat the disease."
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Surrey batsman Rory Burns says he does not remember his on-field collision with Moises Henriques earlier this month which left them both in hospital.

The team-mates collided while attempting to take a catch during a T20 Blast game with Sussex on 14 June.
Both players are now "on the mend" although Henriques, 28, broke his jaw in three places and Burns, 24, required stitches after cuts near his left eye.
"I literally don't remember any of the collision," Burns told BBC London 94.9.
"The first thing I remember is waking up. The Sussex physio was holding my neck and the paramedic was over my face.
"I remember the ball going up and thinking 'I've probably got to put my foot down here to try and get there' and then I got there, and then I remember diving.
"Other than that, I remember the whole game and then waking up and seeing the paramedics."
The match was abandoned after ambulances took the players from the field and Burns thanked the "fantastic" emergency staff.
"The headaches have died down a bit now," Burns added. "I'm on the mend.
"The support from (director of cricket) Alec Stewart and the lads was a great response and, when I woke up, it was nice for me to see my old man.
"He (Henriques) is in good spirits. He came off slightly worse, with his jaw and his teeth, but he's on the mend and that's the important thing.
"I don't think we'll be forgetting each other for a while. I'm looking forward to having a beer with him when he's fully recovered."


Afghan President Ashraf Ghani has blamed "regional and international terror groups" for the violence in his country.

Mr Ghani told the Heart of Asia meeting in Islamabad that regional co-operation was needed to end terrorism.
His comments are being seen in reference to Kabul's long-held view that Pakistan supports the Taliban in Afghanistan, a charge Islamabad denies.
Indian Foreign Minister Sushma Swaraj promised her country's help to Kabul.
She will also hold rare bilateral talks with Pakistani officials on Wednesday.
The Heart of Asia gathering brings together Asian and other countries to discuss the future of Afghanistan and its neighbours.
Security co-operation between Afghanistan and Pakistan is seen as crucial in countering a growing threat from the Taliban and other militants in the region.
On Wednesday, Mr Ghani blamed Pakistan-based militant groups for the escalating violence in Afghanistan.
"The Tehrik-e-Taliban Pakistan launched a vicious attack on children in Peshawar for which they robustly responded. But that very response brought them onto our country... What is the nature of the Taliban and how do we deal with it?" he asked.
Militants from the Pakistani Taliban killed more than 150 people, mostly children, in an attack on an army-run school in Peshawar last year.
Mr Ghani also warned that the presence of international militant groups was growing in Afghanistan.
"Al-Qaeda, Daesh [Islamic State militant group] and terrorists from China, Russia, Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, the Middle East are all, unfortunately, present on our soil."
Pakistan Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif said "working for the achievement of a peaceful neighbourhood is a cardinal principal of Pakistan's foreign policy".
"We should envisage collective and coordinated measures on the regional security front to ensure that the gains and struggle against terrorism are durable and irreversible," he said.
Afghanistan is also a source of tension between Pakistan and India, with the former accusing the latter of meddling in what it sees as its backyard.
Ms Swaraj said India was prepared to "move our co-operation at a pace which Pakistan is comfortable with".
"But today, let us at least resolve to help Afghanistan - in the best traditions of good neighbourliness - through more effective transit arrangements," she said.
India will host the Heart of Asia conference next year.
Meanwhile, Ms Swaraj is likely to meet Mr Sharif and other Pakistani officials on Wednesday.
Her visit comes days after India and Pakistan held unexpected peace talks in Bangkok after a stalemate of four months.
They cancelled a high-level meeting in August after months of tension in disputed Kashmir, but ties have eased since.
Ms Swaraj's visit comes in the aftermath of a dramatic rise - and then a rather sudden ease - in tensions between the two nuclear-armed rivals.
Pakistan wants to discuss Kashmir, claimed by both countries in its entirety.
India wants Pakistan to allow greater commercial interaction, liberalise visa regimes, grant transit rights to traders between Delhi and Kabul, and stamp out militant groups which it believes Pakistan has raised to destabilise Kashmir and Afghanistan.
This is a complex situation, and talks in the past have often broken down, underlining a trust deficit on both sides.
However, Ms Swaraj's visit suggests that the two sides are ready to restart peace talks. And a measure of their success would be if they can draw up a road-map for more substantive talks in the near future.
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi held a brief meeting with Mr Sharif at the climate change conference in Paris on 1 December.
That was followed by Sunday's meeting in the Thai capital, Bangkok where the two sides said their security advisers talked about terrorism, Kashmir, peace and security.
Correspondents say the talks and Ms Swaraj's visit show that the nuclear-armed rivals are open to restart peace talks after what was described as a "diplomatic fiasco" in August.
But few expect any major breakthroughs.


Ten-man Dagenham & Redbridge were knocked off top spot in the National League after losing to Torquay at Plainmoor.

The Daggers were faced with an uphill struggle from the 15th minute when captain Scott Doe was sent off after bringing Danny Sparkes down as the Gulls frontman was bearing down on goal.
Eight minutes later Jamie Reid smashed home the only goal from Nathan Blissett's cut back from close range following some excellent work from the striker to get to the byline.
Dagenham pushed for an equaliser despite being a man down, and almost got it through substitute Christian Assombalonga but he headed wide, meaning the visitors suffered a first loss in five games.
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Match ends, Torquay United 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 0.
Second Half ends, Torquay United 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 0.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Sam Ling replaces Luke Howell.
Brett Williams (Torquay United) is shown the yellow card.
Substitution, Torquay United. Brett Williams replaces Jamie Reid.
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Christian Assombalonga replaces Fejiri Okenabirhie.
Substitution, Torquay United. Sam Chaney replaces Dan Sparkes.
Second Half begins Torquay United 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 0.
First Half ends, Torquay United 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 0.
Goal!  Torquay United 1, Dagenham and Redbridge 0. Jamie Reid (Torquay United).
Substitution, Dagenham and Redbridge. Josh Staunton replaces Jordan Maguire-Drew.
Joe Widdowson (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the yellow card.
Scott Doe (Dagenham and Redbridge) is shown the red card.
First Half begins.
Lineups are announced and players are warming up.


The mother of a toddler who disappeared in 1991 has said the search for her son will continue, following news that a Cyprus man is not Ben Needham.

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Police said a DNA test, which was carried out on the man, proved he was not Ben.
His mother, Karen Needham, said there were "lots of lines of inquiry" that could be followed.
Ben, from Sheffield, vanished when he was 21 months old while on holiday on the Greek island of Kos.


Two poems written by an 11-year-old George Michael have been unearthed by an old schoolmate.

12 January 2017 Last updated at 15:55 GMT
Penny Ling, who lives near Faringdon in Oxfordshire, went to school with the singer.
She found the poems in her primary school yearbook from 1974.
Michael, 53, was found dead at his Goring home on Christmas Day.


The International Monetary Fund says the floods that have struck Pakistan pose a "massive economic challenge" and it will review the country's budget and financial prospects.

The IMF will start talks with Pakistani officials in Washington on Monday to assess how best to give help.
Tens of thousands more Pakistanis have been fleeing the floods, with the south now bearing the brunt.
Overall, about 1,600 people have been killed and 20 million affected.
Masood Ahmed, director of the Middle East and Central Asia department of the IMF, said in a statement: "The floods which have hit Pakistan in recent weeks and brought suffering to millions of people will also pose a massive economic challenge to the people and government of Pakistan.
"The scale of the tragedy means that the country's budget and macroeconomic prospects, which are being supported by an IMF-financed programme, will also need to be reviewed."
Mr Ahmed said that the IMF stood by Pakistan "at this difficult time".
The IMF agreed a rescue package with Pakistan two years ago as the country was then weighed down by soaring inflation, shrinking reserves and fighting militancy.
The Pakistan government has said that the cost of rebuilding after the floods could be as high as $15bn (Â£10bn).
The BBC's Mike Wooldridge in Islamabad says there are concerns about higher inflation and lower growth, along with higher food prices caused by disruption to supply routes.
He says the extensive damage to the agricultural industry as a whole is another heavy blow because this is such an important part of the economy.
Meanwhile, tens of thousands more Pakistanis are being displaced in the southern province of Sindh, which is now being described as the country's worst hit province.
The BBC's Jill McGivering, who has in Sukkur in Sindh, says families are visible everywhere - on riverbanks, open ground and along the roadside.
About one-tenth of the homeless have places in relief camps, the rest are trying to survive alone, without shelter or any assurance of food, she says. Aid is being provided but it is limited and in enormous demand.
Dozens more villages have been inundated and although authorities expect flood waters to drain into the Arabian Sea over the next few days, evacuees who return may find their homes and livelihoods have been washed away.
The UN says it has now raised about 70% of the $460m it called for in its emergency appeal, as donors pledged more money.
Pakistan has also accepted $5m (Â£3.2m) in aid from its rival and neighbour India.
The floods began last month in Pakistan's north-west after heavy monsoon rains and have since swept south, swamping thousands of towns and villages in Punjab and Sindh provinces.
The UN said on Friday that more helicopters were urgently needed to reach communities cut off by the water.
Experts warn of a second wave of deaths from water-borne diseases such as cholera unless flood victims have access to supplies of fresh drinking water.
If you would like to make a donation to help people affected by the floods in Pakistan, you can do so through the UK's Disasters Emergency Committee at www.dec.org.uk or by telephone on 0370 60 60 900.


France has staged its annual Bastille Day parade, amid criticism at the presence of some African leaders.

Armies from former colonies celebrating 50 years of independence were invited to join the military parade.
A human rights group has said that some of the troops and leaders should instead be facing trial for war crimes.
Critics also said the move gave the false impression that France granted them independence, when many fought against French rule.
The government has strenuously denied the claims.
Heads of state and troops from Benin, Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo-Brazzaville, Gabon, Mali, Mauritania, Niger, Senegal, Chad and Togo watched from the official stand.
Ivory Coast was represented by a government minister, but did not take part in the march-past.
The International Federation of Human Rights Leagues (FIDH), an umbrella group for human rights organisations around the world, wrote to President Sarkozy to say it was "seriously concerned that certain countries' delegations... may contain people responsible for grave human rights violations."
The letter added: "It would be no small paradox that during a celebration of the values of the Republic, these values should be flouted by the presence of torturers, dictators and other predators of human rights, and that instead of pursuing them, France honours them."
Danyel Dubreuil, of campaign group Survie, said he was concerned soldiers who had been part of the Cobra militia in the civil war in Congo-Brazzaville - in which thousands of civilians were killed - were taking part in the parade.
A Gabonese activist, Marc Ona, compared African leaders at the parade to "colonial governors who find themselves together with chief colonialist Nicolas Sarkozy to celebrate keeping Africa in international penury".
However, Mr Sarkozy has strenuously denied being guilty of "colonial nostalgia", and said the African troops who attended the parade were a testament to the "strength of the ties" that united France and its former colonies.
Defence Minister Herve Morin told France Info radio that France had no indication that war criminals were present among the African units.
"These are countries with whom we have relations, partnerships. I don't see the sense in putting ourselves on trial over these questions," he said.
The storming of the Bastille in 1789 is viewed symbolically as the birth of the modern French republic.
In recent times, it has become customary to invite foreign units to march in the parade - in 2004, British troops led the parade to mark the centenary of the Entente Cordiale.


A stormy and warm December was the wettest month for the UK in more than a century, provisional Met Office figures show.

It was also the warmest since records began in 1910, with temperatures around 7.9C (46F), making it feel more like a day in April or May.
Overall, 2015 was the sixth wettest year, data showed.
Record amounts of rain fell in storm-hit Scotland, Wales and the north west of England.
The UK mean temperature for the year of 9.2C (49F) was warm but not exceptional, said the Met Office, and not quite hot enough to beat the 2014 record of 9.9C (50F).
Usually, December temperatures hover around 4C (39F).
By Roger Harrabin, BBC environment analyst
The Met Office says there is a direct link between the warmth and the record rains that brought widespread floods across Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England.
Storms propelled by the jet stream were mainly to blame, it says, with contributions from the El Nino weather phenomenon and man-made climate change.
December was something of a freak month, it acknowledges. Climate change has raised UK temperatures by around 1C (1.8F) so far, so it will be many decades before this level of extreme weather becomes the new winter norm, it says.
Other scientists say that with climate change, there will be no "normal" weather.
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England saw virtually no frost and, in the UK overall, there were fewer than three days of frost - normally, December would see about 11 frosty days.
The Met Office has said storms Desmond, Eva and Frank were behind the record rainfall, while a humid south-westerly airflow kept it warm.
Scotland, Wales, Northern Ireland and northern England bore the brunt of the storms, as central and southern England escaped the worst of it.
December's warm weather had a considerable knock-on effect, with retailer Next blaming it for a "disappointing" trading performance in the run-up to Christmas.


At the Moi Teaching and Research Hospital in Eldoret, Kenya, pharmacists have a "drawer of shame".

In it, they put drugs which look suspicious, because they are either fake or of poor quality.
Rather than making people better, poor quality medicines prolong their sickness, often cause side-effects and increase the risk of drug resistance - leading to more illness and deaths, particularly among children.
While counterfeit medicines are deliberately mislabelled and mis-sold by criminals, poor quality pharmaceuticals are a silent killer because they look genuine.
And it is thanks to a cheap, paper-based screening tool that pharmacist Mercy Maina and her colleagues are able to check on the ingredients of the medicines they prescribe to patients in Eldoret.
The tool is known as a PAD (Paper Analytical Device) and is essentially a mini lab on a piece of card, Mercy explains.
"It's simple, you apply the tablet on a specific area on the device, dip the card in water and wait for a colour reaction, then compare the results to a standard to interpret the results."
Each of the cards contains 12 separate strips which react with a drug to create a "coloured bar code" that gives information about its chemical content.
Using the card, they have been able to determine the quality of a wide variety of antibiotics, anti-malarial drugs and tuberculosis medication, and report any odd results to the Kenya Pharmacy and Poisons Board while filling up their "drawer of shame".
The poor quality drugs may look like the real thing but they don't work properly - usually because of mistakes made during the manufacturing process, poor storage conditions (in hot temperatures) and inadequate transportation.
No-one really knows the scale of the global problem of low-quality medicines because the data is so hard to come by, but experts agree that it is now a serious international public health issue.
Research published in the Malaria Journal in 2014 said that poor quality medicines "threaten the lives of millions of patients and are alarmingly common in many parts of the world".
Experts writing in the American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene recently called the proliferation of falsified and sub-standard medicines "a global pandemic".
And it is in developing countries, like Kenya, that the problem is most acute.
A recent national quality control survey in the country suggested that around 25% of drugs could be sub-standard.
Prof Paul Newton, an expert in drug quality from the Worldwide Antimalarial Resistance Network, says the exact figure doesn't really matter.
"I would argue that even if 1% of the anti-malarial supply is poor quality that will be an important public health problem.
"As malaria is so common, many people will be affected with more sickness and death than they should have been if the medicines had been of good quality."
The WHO estimates that 30% of countries have no drug regulation body or one that doesn't function well enough - and that means there is a serious lack of quality control.
So out in the field, attention is focused on testing the quality and authenticity of drugs before they are sold to patients.
Prof Marya Lieberman, from Notre Dame University in the US, who devised the Pad project four years ago, says the device has the ability to test 36 different drugs at the moment.
The results have been revealing - they have found drugs diluted with paracetamol, which only relieves symptoms as opposed to fighting off disease.
Other drugs have been found to contain hidden amoxicillin (to which people can be dangerously allergic), and tests on fake medicines have unearthed evidence of starch, maize meal and a variety of unidentifiable white powders.
The device can't test all possible fake formulations because some drugs don't contain the right groups of chemicals to test for, but it does have huge potential, Prof Lieberman says.
"Fewer than 10% of people are tested for diabetes in developing countries so we are poised to check the quality of these medications when they are prescribed, in a big way."
Because the card is very straightforward to use, anybody can be trained to use it - and that's important in countries with few resources.
But testing medicines to find out if they are good quality "is just one component of what needs to be done", says Prof Newton.
So, who is is to blame for the rise in low-quality medicines?
"It is a failure on many fronts," he says, citing the lack of investment in medicine regulation and some pharmaceutical companies not investing in appropriate quality assurance and quality control to ensure that they produce good-quality products.
There is also "a lack of political will to ensure that manufactured medicines comply with national and international standards."
Manufacturers have also been accused of sloppiness, of sacrificing the quality of the drugs they make to save money.
When pharmaceuticals have such a huge impact on global health and the potential to save millions of lives in developing countries, where malaria and other diseases are rife, low-quality drugs are a hidden killer which scientists are determined to weed out.


A former MEP has been convicted of fraudulently claiming almost £500,000 in European Parliament expenses.

Ashley Mote, 79, denied 11 charges relating to fraudulent claims to pay people he said were "whistleblowers".
The offences included obtaining a money transfer by deception, fraud, acquiring criminal property and false accounting.
Mote, from Binsted, Hampshire, sat as an independent MEP for South East England from 2004-2009 after being expelled from UKIP for benefit fraud.
He was found guilty of four counts of obtaining a money transfer by deception, three of false accounting, two of fraud, and one each of acquiring criminal property, concealing criminal property and theft.
The offences took place between November 2004 and July 2010.
Mote was released on conditional bail. However, Mr Justice Stuart Smith at Southwark Crown Court said there was a "very strong likelihood" a custodial sentence would follow.
The jury heard how Mote submitted numerous false expenses claims for payment for work that organisations had allegedly carried out on his behalf.
Mote claimed the money was to pay whistleblowers in cash through third parties. He also said he had been "targeted for being an anti-EU MEP."
During his time an MEP he also made £250,000 legitimate expenses claims.
No date has been set for the sentencing.


In Madagascar corpses are exhumed by their relatives as an act of love and respect for the ancestors.

5 October 2016 Last updated at 00:59 BST
It is a celebratory event, acting as a family reunion between the living and the dead.


Well almost - Labour has gained its most votes since Tony Blair uttered that phrase the morning after the 1997 election.
But there is one crucial difference. Labour won by a landslide then. This time they have merely stopped Theresa May from winning outright.
Jeremy Corbyn has admitted he didn't expect to win Labour's leadership election.  The first one, anyway.
Many of his supporters felt he could cause a similar political upset by engaging and energising young people to vote.
But, frankly, amongst the party's backroom strategists - and indeed many of its MPs - the result is a surprise.
What was expected were some Labour gains but a net loss of seats - perhaps retaining around 200.
What was also anticipated is that the share of the Labour vote - largely in safe seats - would go up.
So today it was assumed anti-Corbyn forces would be arguing that the party had indeed been defeated as it wasn't good enough just to defy expectations.
This would clear the ground for a later assault on his leadership.
Now, with Labour picking up more seats as well as more votes than in 2015, two putative leadership challenges are on hold.
It's worth scratching beneath the surface to assess why Labour has achieved a hung parliament when local election results and private polling (more in line with ICM, showing a clear Conservative lead, than Survation, which suggested a narrow gap) suggested otherwise.
First, it appears there has been a higher turnout by younger voters - perhaps attracted by messages such as scrapping tuition fees in England.
Second, Jeremy Corbyn played to his strengths and appeared authentic.
But third - let's not lose sight of the campaigns fought by Labour MPs on the ground.
Some, such as Peter Kyle, Paul Farrelly, Ben Bradshaw and Ian Austin, were explicit.
They told voters they didn't back Jeremy Corbyn as Labour leader, airbrushed him from leaflets and said little about the party manifesto.
John Woodcock, who held Barrow and Furness, where nuclear submarines are built, went further and said he wouldn't make Corbyn PM.
Many others, though, avoided direct criticism of the party leader but their message was essentially the same: "Don't give Theresa May a landslide. Rein her in."
It was not a confident message of a brave new dawn.
But it looks like it was effective.
The question is now whether Labour's fractious parliamentary party can unite behind its leader to put what would appear to be a minority Conservative government on the ropes - or whether the battle for Labour's future is just in a state of armed truce.
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Uprooting wildflowers, such as bluebells and primroses, without permission in Northern Ireland is a crime - and you could be prosecuted.

The warning comes as organisations set up to prevent wildlife crime begin a new awareness campaign.
Organisers say many native NI species such as deer, salmon and birds of prey are subject to poaching and cruelty.
But uprooting even common wildflowers without the landowner's permission is an offence.
There is a list of 70 protected wildflowers which it is an offence to interfere with in any way, including picking or taking their seeds.
Environment minister Mark H Durkan told the launch of the initiative: "We aim to educate people that sometimes their actions inadvertently cause significant harm to wildlife.
"Of course, there are also other elements which involve much more extreme forms of criminality - those who target wildlife inflicting great cruelty for their personal pleasure or those who illegally exploit or target our wildlife for financial gain.
"Our starting point is to drive increased awareness of what wildlife crime is and why and encouraging them to report it or seek advice, so that we keep this as a priority and work towards dramatically reducing all forms of wildlife crime."
Supt Brian Kee of the Police Service of Northern Ireland said: "Anyone who witnesses suspicious behaviour, or suspects a wildlife crime is taking place or has occurred, contact the police service on 101, or in an emergency ring 999.
"The report will be fully investigated and where evidence of a criminal offence is found the offender will be reported to the Public Prosecution Service with a view to a prosecution."
People can also report wildlife crime using the Crimestoppers number 0800 555 111.
The campaign has been organised by the Partnership for Action Against Wildlife Crime in Northern Ireland (PAW NI), which is comprised of statutory and non-government organisations involved in preventing wildlife crime.


The owner of a cab firm that refused to take a blind man and his guide dog has been fined £1,000.

Prahlad Pandya, owner of Highfields Taxis, was convicted in his absence after a driver refused to pick up Mohammed Khatri from BBC Leicester.
Pandya, of Gwencole Crescent, Leicester, was fined £1,000 and ordered to pay £655.50 costs.
The prosecution was brought by the city council which said it hoped it would send a message to other cab firms.
A taxi was ordered for Mr Khatri and his assistance dog Vargo after an interview he gave to BBC TV in January.
When a reporter called to check where it was he was told none of the drivers would collect a passenger with a dog.
At the time, the firm apologised to Mr Khatri and told the BBC it would never happen again.
Speaking after the hearing Mike Broster, from the city council, said: "The operator in this case had a legal duty to provide services to someone who wanted to use an assistance dog and they didn't comply with that.
"The city council hopes that this case sends out a message to other operators that they need to comply with that duty and if they don't the city council will prosecute them."


It was a tale of former secretaries of state for Wales.

William Hague (1995-97) delivered the statement setting out how the coalition government would answer the English or West Lothian Question.
His predecessor John Redwood (1993-95) told him: "England expects English votes for English issues. We expect simplicity and justice now: no ifs, no buts, no committee limitations, no tricks. Give us what we want. We have waited 15 years for this. Will he now join me in speaking for England?"
Mr Hague told him: "Yes, for the whole of the United Kingdom."
David Jones (2012-14) asked: "Do you, as a former secretary of state for Wales yourself, acknowledge that a great many people in Wales rely heavily on services that are delivered in England, and that it would be wholly wrong for the representatives of those people to be denied a voice on issues that so clearly concern them?"
Mr Hague replied: "In respect of a small number of cross-border issues involving a strong structural dependence - health care in Wales is one such instance - there is a strong case for a wide definition of what constitutes an English matter, so that others can be involved."
A hint there, perhaps, of borders being redrawn, or at least a recognition of the question Mark Easton asks: What is an English law?
When a government sets out proposals for tackling an issue, you might be forgiven for thinking a solution might be a step nearer. Tonight, few would bet on an imminent answer; my colleague Vicki Young suggested the long grass had just grown an inch.
Labour boycotted the process; the coalition cannot agree between the parties on the way ahead and the Conservatives themselves have three options of varying palatability to their own backbenchers.
If there is a consensus to be found, it may be around Labour's acceptance last week of the idea of allowing English MPs to scrutinise and amend legislation that affects England alone. That option, though, does not go far enough for many Conservatives.
The imminence of an uncertain election makes agreement harder to reach. The SNP may have to relax its self-denying ordinance on English issues if it wants to get concessions out of a minority Labour government. Plaid Cymru say "English votes for English laws" is reasonable if accompanied by a more symmetrical devolution settlement and Welsh MPs can still vote on issues that affect the Welsh budget.
Mr Hague hopes to put the coalition's preferred option (once it has one) to a vote by MPs in the New Year. What could possibly go wrong?


The longest period of time without a fatal crash on the A9 between Inverness and Dunblane since 1978 has been recorded, the A9 Safety Group has said.

There were no lives lost in accidents on the stretch of road between July and December last year.
The group, whose partners include Police Scotland, Highland Council and Road Safety Scotland, said average speed cameras had made the A9 safer.
Six people have died since the network of cameras went live in October 2014.
Police Scotland has ruled out excessive speed - something the cameras are designed to tackle - or overtaking manoeuvres as the cause of those fatal accidents.
Transport Minister Derek Mackay said the reduction in fatalities was welcome.
But he added that every road death was "one too many" and the Scottish government and its partners were "steadfastly committed" to making the road safer.
Government agency Transport Scotland's accident database holds reports going back to 1978.
The A9 Safety Group said that at that time the A9 was undergoing a major upgrade, "making a direct comparison with any earlier period problematic".


A car bomb blast has hit a police headquarters in south-eastern Turkey, killing five people and injuring at least 39, officials say.

A woman and a baby are among the dead. Rescuers are continuing to search through rubble at the scene in Cinar district, Diyarbakir province.
Officials blamed the blast on Kurdistan Worker's Party (PKK) militants, who are active in the mainly Kurdish province.
No group has so far said it carried out the attack.
The bomb was detonated at the entrance of the Cinar district police complex, officials say. The blast also damaged nearby residential buildings, where the mother and baby were killed.
The attackers then reportedly fired rockets at the headquarters.
Diyarbakir province has seen violent clashes between PKK separatists and the Turkish army in recent months.
Last year, the city of Diyarbakir and a number of other areas in the south-east were put under curfew as part of a security crackdown.
This followed a bomb blast that left 16 soldiers dead and a rebel ambush that killed 14 police officers - both incidents in the east.
A ceasefire between the army and the PKK collapsed in July, and Turkish jets have since bombed PKK bases in northern Iraq and the army launched a ground operation there.
Turkey is also part of a US-led coalition that has been carrying out air strikes against Islamic State (IS) militants in Iraq and Syria.
However, Ankara has been accused of hitting mostly PKK targets, angering Kurds who are themselves fighting IS in the two countries.


US Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton has said she no longer cares what her Republican rival Donald Trump might say and will focus on issues instead.

"I debated him for four and a half hours," she said, recalling their acrimonious exchanges. "I don't even think about responding to him anymore."
She was speaking to reporters aboard her campaign plane.
Mr Trump used a rally in Gettysburg to promise curbs on lobbying and new trade and climate change negotiations.
With just 16 days until the election, much of the recent focus has been on controversies linked to his campaign.
On Saturday, he again promised to sue every woman who had accused him of sexual assault or inappropriate behaviour as soon as his presidential campaign was over.
More polls on Sunday suggested the tycoon lags behind Mrs Clinton in key battleground states.
Her campaign has predicted this is going to be "the biggest election in American history".
Campaign manager Robbie Mook told Fox News Sunday: "More people are going to turn out than ever before."
The polls may be wrong in Arizona but if they are correct, it may be the start of a Democratic trend that doesn't just put the state in play in a Clinton 2016 rout scenario, it makes Arizona a legitimate swing state in coming elections.
"The demographics in the state are continuing to change," says Arizona State University political science professor Richard Herrera. "If there is another increase in Latino voters, which there almost certainly will be, followed with an increase in party registrants, this could become a real battleground in future elections."
For Democrats, that's a dream scenario, giving them new and plentiful paths to electoral success.
For Republicans, it could mean the start of a long-term political nightmare.
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Speaking on stage in Pittsburgh, Mrs Clinton called for Americans to unite.
"I understand that they need a president who cares about them, will listen to them and I want to be their president," she said.
Before his speech in Gettysburg, Mr Trump said the media were fabricating stories to make him "look as bad and dangerous as possible".
Eleven women have come forward to accuse him of inappropriate behaviour, in the weeks since a video emerged of him boasting of groping women and kissing them.
"Every woman lied when they came forward to hurt my campaign," Mr Trump told the audience.
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A 24-year-old man has died after a two-car collision on the A698 in the Scottish Borders.

The man was driving a Ford Focus when it was involved in a crash with a Renault Traffic van near to Knowesouth Steading, Jedburgh.
The incident took place on the Kelso to Denholm road at 21:20 on Saturday.
The road was closed for several hours for collision investigations. Police have appealed for witnesses.
Sgt Andy Gibb said: "Sadly this collision has resulted in a young man losing his life and we would like to ascertain the full circumstances of the collision."


A man nicknamed the "Red Baron" has set a new speed record riding a mountain bike... on snow!

19 March 2017 Last updated at 11:03 GMT
56-year-old Frenchman Eric Barone, reached a speed of over 141 miles per hour on his bike travelling down a slope in the French Alpine resort of Vars.
He beat the previous record which he himself had set in 2015 by almost 2.5 miles per hour.
Have a watch, it's pretty impressive.


It's Chilcot week - with major debates in both House of Parliament.

But elsewhere the sense of political limbo persists across Westminster, with a light legislative load, and much attention devoted to the leadership issues in both main parties.
And while the issues raised by the Brexit vote are starting to crop up in select committee land, and in odd corners of the Commons agenda (see Tom Brake's 10-minute rule bill on Tuesday) there's no sign of MPs being allowed to debate them at length, as peers did, last week.
There seems to be little appetite in the government to uncork that particular genie, until a new Conservative leader and prime minister has been enthroned.
Here's my rundown of the week ahead:
In the Commons (from 2.30pm), MPs open with Work and Pensions questions. As usual, the slot immediately afterwards (3.30pm) is primetime for any urgent questions or ministerial statements.
Then MPs turn to the detail of the Wales Bill - which aims to give effect to the government's policy of establishing a 'reserved powers' model for devolution to Wales. Labour's new shadow Welsh secretary Paul Flynn will be pushing amendments to give the Welsh Assembly more legislative elbow room where its law making might impinge on policy areas reserved to Westminster.
Plaid Cymru's attention will focus on three key amendments - full devolution of energy and the Crown Estate, which includes offshore exploitation rights, and is already devolved in Scotland; the devolution of policing (devolved in Scotland and Northern Ireland) and the devolution of Air Passenger Duty. Interestingly, Cardiff Airport sits within the Secretary of State for Wales' constituency so his response will be interesting.
The adjournment debate, led by the Labour MP Ben Bradshaw, is on Great Western Railway's bicycle policy.
In Westminster Hall (4.30pm - 7.30pm), MPs debate e-petition 129698 which complains that in 2013 the government changed the law on parents taking their children out of school in term time -  so that now they would face a Â£60 of per child penalty fine - in effect preventing families from taking term time holidays forcing them to pay extra during school holidays.
Select committee hearing of the day is the Public Accounts Committee hearing on HS2 (4pm). The PAC has previously raised concerns about the ambitious timetable to deliver the scheme and will hear from the Department of Transport's permanent secretary and HS2 officials about options for putting back the opening date for phase one, and possible cost-cutting measures.
In the Lords (from 2.30pm) the usual half hour of questions to ministers is followed by the first day of detailed committee stage scrutiny of the Investigatory Powers Bill  - peers will examine Clauses 1-57 and Clauses 221-231, which cover General Privacy Protections and the rules for lawful interception of communications.
Look out for a "probing" amendment (ie an amendment designed to get a response from the minister, rather than be forced to a vote) from the veteran Lib Dem, Lord Beith, who wants to tease out whether the government still holds to the "Wilson Doctrine" on security service bugging of MPs - the former Labour prime minister said he would disclose such bugging to the Commons when the moment was right to do so...
There will also be a short debate on combating caste-based discrimination in the UK - led by the crossbencher, Lord Harries of Pentregarth.
Those following the bill to approve HS2 will want to keep an eye on the bill committee hearing at 2pm, when MP Cheryl Gillan will seek to present a petition against the scheme, and the committee will decide whether she and other objectors have a "locus" which will allow their views to be considered - the HS2 company is pressing for a ruling that they do not.
The Commons meets at 11.30am for Foreign Office questions - will this be Phillip Hammond's last outing as foreign secretary?
Then there's a Ten Minute Rule Bill from the Lib Dem Tom Brake on EU citizens' resident in the United Kingdom right to live in the UK - he says the failure to clarify their position in the wake of the EU referendum is "cruel and unfair."
The day's main debate will be on an Opposition motion, to be announced. Fresh from winning their motion on the right to remain last week, what will Labour try this time?
The adjournment debate, led by the Conservative Peter Aldous, is on the future funding of supported housing.
My select committee pick of the day is the Public Administration Committee hearing (9.45am) on unsafe discharge from hospital, with evidence from the Alzheimer's Society, Independent Age, BMA, NHS Confederation, the RCN and NHS England; followed by Health Minister Ben Gummer,
In Westminster Hall there are debates on: children's early years development and school readiness (9.30am-11am); compensation for rail passengers (11am-11.30am); the performance of North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust (2.30pm-4pm); free childcare for three and four-year olds (4pm-4.30pm) and the report by the Milton Keynes Futures 2050 Commission and developing the Oxford - MK - Cambridge arc (4.30pm-5.30pm).
In the Lords (2.30pm) questions to ministers will be followed by a rapid rubber-stamping of the Supply and Appropriation (Main Estimates) Bill which will whiz through all its Lords stages of consideration - peers normally don't interfere with explicit money bills.
Then the House debates the Chilcot report on Iraq - watch out for contributions from Blair-era ministers who were involved.
It might also be worth keeping half an eye on the Moses Room (peers' equivalent of Westminster Hall) where two combined authority orders on the election of mayors covering Halton, Knowsley, Liverpool, St Helens, Sefton and the Wirral, and the Tees Valley, are up for debate.
Westminster has started to notice that the unfolding devolution process in England is really rather important. With the government aiming to hold elections for large numbers of the new super-mayors next May, quite a lot of these orders will have to be dealt with by November - the cut-off date for creating posts for election then.
In the Commons (from 11.30am) MPs open with questions, followed at noon by Prime Minister's questions.
There will be a Ten Minute Rule Motion on the NHS from the Labour MP Margaret Greenwood  and then MPs move on to debate the Chilcot Report and the verdict of the inquiry into the Iraq war - this is the start of a two day mega-debate.
Watch out for the opening moves by parliamentary campaigners who are determined to find some way of punishing former Prime Minister Tony Blair for his role; they are actively exploring a number of possibilities from motions to strip him of his Privy Council membership - he'd no longer be Right Honourable - to reviving the ancient parliamentary practice of impeachment, last successfully deployed against Pitt the Younger's right hand man, Henry Dundas, in 1806.
The adjournment debate on the Tay cities deal is led by the SNP's Chris Law.
Select committee of the day is the Energy and Climate Chance session (2pm) with ministers, to ask if the government plans to abandon EU targets to get more heat and transport energy from renewables.
In Westminster Hall, MPs debate the implications for the UK steel industry of the outcome of the EU referendum (9.30am-11am);  awareness and funding for treatment of Stevens Johnson Syndrome and Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis (11am-11.30am); the performance of the Govia Thameslink rail service (2.30pm-4pm); transport infrastructure in South Manchester (4pm-4.30pm) and whistleblowing in the NHS and the Capsticks report into Liverpool Community (4.30pm-5.30pm)
In the Lords (3pm) peers continue their detailed committee stage debate on the Investigatory Powers Bill. This is day two of six and peers will focus on Clauses 58-92, which cover the procedures for authorisation for obtaining communications data and the rules on retention of communications data.
In the Commons the day begins, (at 9.30am) with Energy and Climate Change questions, followed by the weekly Business Statement from the Leader of the House, Chris Grayling.
Then the debate on the Chilcot report moves into day two.
The adjournment debate is on Section 136 of the Mental Health Act 1983 - led by the Conservative Sir Paul Beresford.
Select committee hearing of the day is the Home Affairs Committee's continuation (1.15pm) of its anti-Semitism inquiry, with evidence from the UK's Jewish communities, including the Chief Rabbi of the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth, the Jewish Leadership Council, and John Mann, Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group against anti-Semitism
In Westminster Hall there are debates on the contribution of cooperatives to the economy (1.30pm-3pm) and maternity discrimination (3pm-4.30pm).
In the Lords (11am) watch out for the question on the constitutional implications of the Supreme Court's 2014 judgment in the case of R (Nicklinson) v Ministry of Justice -  from the crossbencher Baroness Meacher. The ruling declared that the UK's general prohibition of assisted suicide was incompatibility with European human rights law.
The day's main debates are on the causes of poverty in the United Kingdom, led by the Big Issue founder and crossbench peer Lord Bird, and on resourcing and staffing courts in supporting the rule of law led by the former Lord Chief Justice, Lord Woolf.
There will also be a short debate on the future status of EU citizens lawfully resident or working in the UK, when the UK leaves the EU.
Neither House sits on Friday.


A home is being sought for a hand-reared dove that "may well think it actually is a human".

The dove, named Nancy, was found by Imdad Sardharwalla and taken to a local vet after being abandoned at birth.
Once strong enough, she was set free but only made it as far as a house two doors away from the surgery.
After making herself at home on the cooker, homeowner Rachel Lucken and others took to Facebook to find a permanent safe aviary for the bird.
Mrs Lucken had spotted the dove being closely watched by cats in her garden after it was released from its aviary at the vet's on Sunday.
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After putting the photo on Facebook another neighbour, Charlotte Page offered to look after the bird, also posting images.
"I think as it was hand-reared it basically doesn't want to be free and is craving human company," Mrs Page said.
Mr Sardharwalla recognised Nancy's pictures and is leading the hunt for a more suitable permanent home.
Nancy meanwhile is being cared for at the vet's once more.
Dr Viola Ross-Smith, from the British Trust for Ornithology, said: "Some species of birds can imprint on the first thing they see, in this case maybe it was a human."
"The dove may well think it actually is a human," she added.


More than seven million Britons are being offered the chance to top up their state pensions.

Men over the age of 65 and women over the age of 63 can get up to £25 a week extra on their state pension, in return for a one-off payment.
How much they have to pay will depend on their exact age; the older they get, the lower the cost.
The offer is open to existing pensioners and anyone who will reach state pension age before April 2016.
After that date, the new, more generous, single-tier pension will kick in.
The current basic state pension is worth up to £115 .95. The new flat-rate pension will be worth up to £155 a week to those that qualify.
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The new top-up scheme, known as Class 3A contributions, will provide an income that will rise with inflation.
Spouses or civil partners will be able to inherit at least half of that income when the pensioner dies.
About seven million people are currently of pensionable age, according to the Pensions Policy Institute (PPI), and are therefore eligible to take part.
But the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) concedes that it will not be suitable for everyone, and expects around 265,000 to take up the offer.
"It won't be right for everybody and it's important to seek guidance or advice to check if it's the right option for you," said Pensions Minister Baroness Altmann.
"But it could be particularly attractive for those who haven't had the chance to build significant amounts of state pension, particularly many women and people who have been self-employed."
The maximum extra income possible will be £1,300 a year, or £25 a week. The younger someone's age, the more they will pay for a given level of income.
So someone aged 65, who wants an extra income of £10 a week, would have to pay a lump sum of £8,900.
But at the age of 75 they would only have to pay £6,740.
Those wanting to apply will now have 18 months to do so. Unlike pensioner bonds, there is no limited pot of money, so the DWP said there was no need to rush to apply.


Former Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh has rubbished the government's move to ban two major currency notes, calling it "monumental mismanagement".

Mr Singh, the architect of economic reforms in the 1990s, said GDP would fall "by about 2%" because of the move.
Earlier this month Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced that 500 and 1,000 rupee notes had become illegal as part of a crackdown on corruption.
But scarcity of new notes has brought the economy to a virtual standstill.
Mr Singh, who is credited with opening up India's economy when he was finance minister in 1992, told MPs the move "can weaken and erode our people's confidence in the currency system and in the banking system".
He said it amounted to "legalised plunder".
Earlier, the rupee fell to almost 69 to the US dollar, a record low.
"[The] prime minister has been arguing that this is the way to curb black money... I do not disagree with these objectives, but there is monumental mismanagement of which there are no two opinions in the country as a whole," Mr Singh said.
"Even those who say that this measure will do harm or cause distress in the short term but be in the interests of the country in the long run should be reminded of what John Keynes said once, 'In the long run all of us are dead'."
Mr Singh has rarely addressed parliament in the two and a half years since his party lost power.
He and other opposition MPs are insisting that Mr Modi address parliament on the cash crisis, which he has not yet done.
There have been chaotic scenes in India ever since the currency ban was announced two weeks ago. People have been queuing up for hours outside banks and cash machines which are fast running out of money.
In some instances the police have had to be called in to manage queues of anxious customers trying to change their savings in banned notes for legal tender.
People have been told they can deposit or change their old notes in banks until 30 December and new 500 and 2,000 rupee notes have been issued. A new 1,000 rupee note will also be issued, but there is no clarity on when.
Until midnight on 24 November Indians are also able to change a small sum of old cash into legal tender as long as they produce ID. This amount was reduced from a total of 4,500 rupees to 2,000 rupees on 17 November.
Anything above this amount needs to be credited to a bank account.


Racing legend John Surtees has relaunched the karting track where Lewis Hamilton and Jenson Button practised as youngsters.

The former world champion, 81, unveiled a new fleet of karts at Buckmore Park in Chatham with the help of TV presenter Paul Hollywood.
Surtees won seven world motorbike championships before becoming F1 World Champion with Ferrari in 1964.
He now aims to "firmly place Buckmore on the map".
Surtees said: "I would like Buckmore to become a feeder for youngsters into racing careers, and hope to work with various colleges with their educational programmes."
Speaking at the launch, Buckmore Park Karting Ltd Managing Director Chris Pullman said: "We start young. We do the training for the future.
"We start the serious training at six. It's all about progression - a  ladder of success."
He spoke of his excitement of working with John Surtees and added: "John is the only person that has won world championships on two and four wheels and I don't think that will ever get beaten."


The Scottish Greens are "not willing" to see the Scottish government's budget fail, the party's co-convener has said.

Patrick Harvie told the BBC's Politics Scotland programme that the budget falling would see cuts to services.
The Scottish government needs opposition support for its tax and spending plans, with the first vote on the budget bill on Thursday.
Other parties have all but ruled out a deal, but Mr Harvie said he was not willing to see the budget fall.
If the proposals are not agreed, it will be the first time Holyrood has rejected a budget bill at stage one. One budget fell at the final hurdle in 2009, after two Green MSPs - one of them Mr Harvie - withdrew their backing shortly before the final vote.
The Greens and Liberal Democrats were seen as the parties most likely to strike a deal for the current budget proposal. Both had warned in recent days that they were some way from agreement with Finance Secretary Derek Mackay, after previous votes had ended in stalemate.
Mr Harvie, who has been seeking changes over tax, told the BBC he wanted the government to give ground - but was not willing to scupper the budget altogether.
He said: "I think we're the only party that's being constructive and consistent in this process.
"There will be no budget if we can't get agreement across the chamber, and a majority support a budget.
"If parties just dug their feet in and said 'my way or the highway' then the whole thing would fall and we would begin to see emergency cuts being made to public services across Scotland.
"I'm not willing to see that happen, but I am entirely willing to put pressure on the Scottish government to give ground on the position that it's taken so far."
Brian Taylor on whether a budget deal can be done
Not there yet - but it is looking increasingly likely at Holyrood that there will be a deal between ministers and the Greens.
Certainly, the pervasive gloom of previous days has lifted somewhat in ministerial corridors. Again, not there yet - but closer.
However, the emerging shape of the deal could bring added controversy if, as expected, it leads to an additional tax levy upon higher earners by contrast with original plans.
Any prospect of a deal with the Liberal Democrats seems to have evaporated - they wanted to extract a sizeable price for backing the SNP, the party of independence.
They wanted around £400m in spending on mental health care, education, police and Northern Isles transport. They were offered around £70m. So no deal - although talks are still continuing.
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Mr Mackay has been holding negotiations with all parties, but he identified "room for manoeuvre" with the Lib Dems and Greens in particular.
However, the prospect of a deal with the Lib Dems before Thursday's stage one vote appears remote, after MSP Alex Cole-Hamilton told the BBC that the "distance is too great" between the parties.
He said his party had "engaged constructively" with the government seeking "a seismic investment" in mental health and education, but had not found enough common ground.
The Scottish Conservatives have told Mr Mackay that they would be willing to do a budget deal only if changes to tax were scrapped.
Finance spokesman Murdo Fraser said he would "talk constructively" with the government "so long as it abandons its bid to make Scotland the highest-taxed part of the UK".
Scottish Labour meanwhile has tabled an amendment for the debate calling for increases to income tax, and a new 50p rate for earnings above £150,000 to raise funds for local services.
Leader Kezia Dugdale said her party would not back any budget that cut funding from local services, calling her amendment a "positive alternative".
Mr Mackay has defended his proposals as "a budget for growth and public services".
When the bill was published he said: "It delivers increased investment in education, with £120m for schools to use at their discretion to close the attainment gap in 2017-18 - £20m more than previously announced.
"This budget will deliver record investment in the NHS through an additional £304m in resource funding, £120m above inflation as part of an overall commitment of an extra £500m above inflation over this parliament. And it protects low-income households from tax hikes and supports more and better jobs.
"This government seeks consensus and I remain in active discussions with other political parties."


Birmingham Bears' Brendon McCullum smashed 158 not out off 64 balls against Derbyshire at Edgbaston, the highest ever T20 Blast score.

He brought his hundred up off 42 balls as Bears made 242-4 and bowled out Derbyshire for 182 to win by 60 runs.
The New Zealand captain hit 11 sixes and 13 fours in the second highest T20 score ever, behind Chris Gayle's 175 in the Indian Premier League in 2013.
The previous T20 Blast record was 153, by Luke Wright for Sussex in 2014.
McCullum has hit 158 not out before, for the Kolkata Knight Riders in the first ever IPL game in 2008, an innings that took 73 balls.
The 33-year-old led New Zealand to a 1-1 draw in the recent Test series against England, before the Kiwis were beaten 3-2 in the subsequent one-day international series.


Worcestershire have signed Australia off-spinner Nathan Lyon to replace compatriot John Hastings during the Champions Trophy in June.

It will be 29-year-old Lyon's first experience of county cricket, having taken 247 wickets in 67 Tests.
"We've replaced a top international with another top international," Worcestershire director of cricket Steve Rhodes said.
Lyon's arrival is subject to clearance from Cricket Australia.
"Signing a top-class international spinner is terrific for us from the performance angle," Rhodes added.
"Nathan is also a very committed dressing room man and our young spinners like George Rhodes and Ben Twohig will have the opportunities to pick his brains over that period."
Pace bowler Hastings was named in Australia's 15-man squad for the Champions Trophy last month alongside fellow seamers Mitchell Starc, Josh Hazlewood, Pat Cummins and James Pattinson, who is currently playing for Nottinghamshire.
The tournament starts on 1 June with Australia's first match the following day against New Zealand at Edgbaston.


A man who died after he suffered a serious head injury at a party in Barnsley has been named.

Adrian Fatchett, 52, was injured at a house in Highfield Avenue, Athersley South, said South Yorkshire Police.
Mr Fatchett died on Saturday night despite being treated at the scene by paramedics, officers said.
A 17-year-old boy arrested on suspicion of murder has been bailed and investigations continue, said police.