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This, it says, made bottlenecks worse in A&E and for ambulances trying to hand over patients and that delays for those handovers were worse than in previous winters.

The site will now be prepared for handover to Nuclear Restoration Services which looks after decommissioned sites.

Since appearing on stage, flanked by masked gunmen and looking pale and thin, at a Hamas handover ceremony in Gaza City in February, US-Israeli hostage Keith Siegel has turned into an active campaigner.

But officials on both sides of the border have tip-toed around using the word extradition for the recent handover.

There will be a two-day handover after which the old crew are due to begin their journey back to Earth.