Article from 2007, mandarin soars outside China:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6244763.stm

Should British children learn chinese?:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/danielhannan/100021447/should-british-children-learn-chinese/

Britain welcomes Chinese acquisitions:

http://english.sina.com/business/2009/0312/225495.html

£2.6bn trade link with China:

http://latestchina.com/article/?rid=27192

Again more reasons to start learning:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2005/sep/23/tefl

Children who learn a second language can maintain attention better:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/bilingual.kids.sl.html

PM David Cameron, on his visit to China:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/nov/10/david-cameron-china-world-visit

Ed Balls, former Education Secretary is on our wave length:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/jan/04/modernlanguages-languages

Mary Hennock, BBC business reporter:

"China's economy is growing so quickly and becoming so influential in the world economy that people can't afford to ignore it" 
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/4341557.stm