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 is the slow version. Please let me know if it's not slow enough!
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/4427-news-round-up-242