Every week, we summarise the news to give you some insight into what is happening in Britain, and what people are talking about.

This week: the street that inspired Diagon Alley, disappearing vegetables, the most miserable day of the year, Sherlock Holmes and the UK's most unusual family...

"Chester is in the centre of UK and in the previous months I went to London, Oxford and Edinburgh. I visited all of the UK because I love travel and discovered a new culture."

Agostino Strina from Sardinia

Nine students from Argentina, Colombia, Mexico and Peru will be arriving in the UK over the coming weeks to start their three-week English language courses at nine host English UK member centres across the country.

Loughborough is an ordinary English town with a university and a college. But if it was counted as a country, it would have come 17th in the medal table at the Rio Olympics, and 10th in the Paralympics.

MP and the Deputy Mayor of Kingston were guests of honour at the official opening of English UK member London Tutorial College as an independent school, fully recognised by the Department for Education last week.

There are plenty of festivals and events and it's a great time of year for countryside walks and  winter sports.


Every week, we summarise the news to give you some insight into what is happening in Britain, and what people are talking about.

This week, we are all going back to work and education after the Christmas holiday. Things are changing in the Royal Family, we're about to get new money, the Natural History Museum loses its most famous dinosaur, and we explain why Andy Murray is now a Sir.