P - K4

Another Home Office/Immigration story.  A family from India face being sent back there in a few months time when the father's visa expires.  They are appealing but on the rather unusual ground that their son is a "national asset".  He is 9 years old, and a chess prodigy.  He is seen as a potential world champion, and it appears that, if his parents are granted indefinite leave to remain, he could compete for Britain.  How this squares with the story I told the other day about the girl from Bradford, I do not know, and in any case, the name that immediately popped into my head when I read about this kid was Zola Budd - and that didn't turn out too well.  Presumably, if he was a normal 9-year-old with no special talent, there would be no story.