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BRITISH children are missing out on foreign exchange trips, warns an article in The Independent.

They report on a survey of 450 headteachers, carried out by YouGov for the British Council, which showed that only 39 per cent of the country’s secondary schools take part in foreign exchange trips involving a stay with a host family. State schools are half as likely as private schools to offer such schemes.

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News Round Up

by Patrick O’Connor

SEEING the funny side…

Leave your car in the wrong spot in a supermarket car park usually leads to a hefty fine but not in the case of a Peugeot 107 driver at Asda in Nuneaton, Warwickshire.

According to The Sun, the driver, named only as Jim, squeezed his car in a trolley bay after finding the car park full.

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English in Use – This Asda be the Wrong Way

A selection of headlines from stories in the news. They use English in a way that you might think is intended to confuse but it’s all perfectly clear to the native speaker.