Practise your listening skills with a regular update of the weird and wonderful from the UK news, kindly written for us by Patrick O'Connor.

There are two versions of this; one for more experienced English speakers - normal speed, and the slow mo version. This one is at normal speed, well, as normal as I can be!
If you would like to follow the text, you can do so by going to the English Magazine:- http://www.english-magazine.org/english-reading/english-news-round-up/2988-news-round-up-74