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Shadowing the newsreader

Listen to the newsreader read out each line and then practise saying it. Record your own voice line by line and submit your voiceover.

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A mouse was filmed cleaning a garden shed.

Rodney Holbrook, who works in the shed, discovered the tiny cleaner.

Peanuts that he fed to birds were disappearing.

Holbrook wanted to find the thief.

Holbrook's hobby is nature photography.

He set up his camera, which has a night time setting, in the shed.

He was amazed by the mouse.

Holbrook had seen this behaviour before.

A few years ago, a different mouse in England had cleaned his friend's shed.

So, Holbrook gave the new mouse the name "The Welsh Tidy Mouse".

The Welsh Tidy Mouse is serious about cleaning.

Every night, it picks up little items like paper and clothes pegs, which it puts away into the box with the peanuts.

But why does it tidy the shed so seriously?

Holbrook thinks that it wants to hide the peanuts.

The tiny tidier's made the news in many countries.

Mr and Mrs Holbrook are enjoying their 5 minutes of fame, and the mouse has no complaints either.

For its hard work, it's paid in peanuts.

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