Task 2. News summary 2.
It's time for the news at 3:30 here at Radio 1.
A girl aged 16 armed with a shotgun held up a class of children at a secondary school in Surrey this morning.
Police said that soon after school began at Blair Hill Secondary School, Newton,
the girl armed with a double-barrelled shotgun belonging to her brother, went into one of the classrooms and threatened a teacher and about thirty pupils.
A shot was fired into the ceiling as she was being overpowered by police officer.
Surgeons at Cambridge have successfully transplanted a pancreas, the organ that produces insulin, in two patients suffering from diabetes.
One patient, a 23-year-old electronics worker also had a liver transplant.
The other patient, a 55-year-old housewife, had a kidney transplanted at the same time. Both patients are doing well.
A stately home owner who allowed a pop concert to be staged in his grounds was fined yesterday for letting a rock band play overtime.
The honourable Frederick Sidgwick Johnson admitted allowing the rock group Led Zepplin to play on after midnight during a concert at his home near Stevenage two months ago.
Stevenage magistrates fined him 125 pounds with 25 pounds costs.
Three people has so far been killed in the storms sweeping across the north of England and southern Scotland.
A woman was killed in Carlisle when a chimney on a house collapsed and two men were killed when their car crushed into a fallen tree on a country road near Melrose.
More high winds and rain are forecast for tonight.