Ten Things You Need to Know Today: Friday 14 Dec 2012

Anyone who works in a publicly-funded role and interacts with the public will have to speak reasonable English if Labour return to power, Ed Miliband will say today. Ideally, all Britons should speak the language if Britain is to be a “connected nation" rather than a “segregated one", the Labour leader will say. "We can only converse if we can speak the same language."

One of the suicide notes left by Jacintha Saldanha criticised staff at the King Edward VII hospital, according to The Guardian, despite hospital officials previously maintaining they were fully supportive of her. In Australia, the two radio presenters who made the hoax call went into hiding yesterday following death threats.

Britain's gold-plated AAA credit rating yesterday suffered a new blow after the Standard and Poor's rating agency became the third to give it a “negative outlook" warning. The agency said there was a “one in three" chance that they would cut Britain's rating within two years because of growing debt and declining growth.

English actor Hugh Grant has been singled out by the American comedian Jon Stewart as the worst guest ever on his Daily Show. Stewart said the rom-com actor was unpleasant to the programme staff and would never be allowed back. “He's a big pain in the ass," Stewart told a fundraiser for the Montclair Film Festival in New Jersey