In our Brazilian English is GREAT: Speak to the World competition, the entrants were asked to create a one-minute video blog (vlog) explaining, what English means to them. One of the final winner Henrique Monteiro sang and performed in his video, adapting the Spice Girls song Wannabe to explain why he "really really" wanted to come to the UK.

Henrique is being hosted by English UK North and will spend two weeks in February studying English at Melton College, in the historic city of York.

Friends star joins Top Gear, film crew blow up London bus, a 40-year-old murder makes news headlines and could Leicester City win the Premier League?

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The winners of our English is GREAT: Speak to the World scholarship competition are starting their adventure in the United Kingdom.

The unsolvable spy puzzle, the GBP 66m lottery prize is won, the House of Parliament may close for repairs and explorer dies in Antarctica.

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

Last week we reported the good news that study abroad programmes will be exempt from a new 25% tax on overseas payments imposed by the Brazilian government. A Department of Federal Revenue announcement (in Portuguese) this week has clarified how this new tax affects other course related fees.