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, millions of pounds is going to be spent on building work at Buckingham Palace, the first storm of the winter causes floods, a spider is banned from the Houses of Parliament, and UK radio shows may be available all over the world.

Risa Kitano is 31 and comes from Tokyo, where she is a well-known pop singer.

"I chose Torquay because I thought there would not be any Japanese people here so I would be able to concentrate on my English"

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, Andy Murray becomes the world's top male tennis player, university students want to carry on finding out their exam results from a public list, changes to a chocolate bar are mocked, and a student's Christmas advert gets him a job.

Mining experts and those who want to enter a career in the industry are the target for a new specialist suite of courses at English UK member the Devon School of English.

"American English is very common in Brazil but I chose to come to the UK because it is close to other countries like Italy and France. You can't do that in the USA."

Lucas Marinho Da Silva's experience studying at Leeds English Language School...