This week's UK news: 17 May 2013
Friday, May 17th, 2013England's most famous footballer retires
David Beckham, former captain of the England football team, has announced that he is retiring from the game at the age of 38.
Beckham
left the UK to play for the Los Angeles Galaxy soccer team five years
ago. He had played for Manchester United during his career as a
midfielder.
Beckham,
who played for Manchester United for much of his career, has become
famous outside football. He is married to Victoria Adams, who was a
singer with a pop group called The Spice Girls. She is now a fashion
designer, and he sometimes works as a model. They are both photographed a
lot for celebrity magazines.
It's nearly summer - but we've had snow
People
in the UK are hoping for some good weather. This is because the weather
has been unusually bad for the last few months, very wet and very cold.
Officially it is nearly summer, but this week several areas had up to
two inches of snow.
The
snow was very wet and melted quickly. Now we are all hoping that we
will get more typical May weather soon, which would be warm and sunny.
Sir Alex Ferguson retires in style
Manchester
United manager Sir Alex Ferguson had a big retirement ceremony at his
club, only a few days after he announced he was leaving.
The
club celebrated Sir Alex's career at the end of the last home game,
which they won. Sir Alex gave a speech from the pitch, with his 11
grandchildren watching. He told the fans they had to support the new
manager, David Moyes. The next night Manchester and Sir Alex went on a
victory parade round the city.
New technique to help couples have children
Couples who could not have children naturally were first helped over 30 years ago when Louise
Brown was born. She was created outside her mother by British doctors
who then put the tiny group of cells inside her mother to grow,
Since
then thousands of IVF babies have been born but it is expensive and
success rates are low. Now another group of British doctors have created
a new IVF method which could mean almost 80 per cent of treatments lead
to a live baby. It involves a simple method of using a camera to film
the cells developing in the first few days, to see which are growing
best. The best will then be put back in the mother. Scientists say the
technique is a "game changer".
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