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.

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.

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, people are preparing for Christmas, with the busiest shopping day predicted and bans on Christmas jumpers in pubs. There's also news of a new child wizard coming to TV, Big Ben will be under repair and the UK's best new house is announced.