Someone help me out with Sir Patrick Moore. Now, I know he's speaking English...no. I assume he's speaking English, but that's only because the 1 word out of 10 I'm actually understanding happens to be English. I don't have that much trouble understanding English accents any more - I'm even pretty good at knowing who's English and who's Australian (which I couldn't do before coming to England)... but I am TOTALLY stumped at Sir Patrick Moore.
There are several English accents. Does anyone have some examples they can show me of the different kinds of accents? How many accents does England have? and which accent does Sir Patrick display so... excellently?

Why is it, in the BBC news, when there is a suspicious death news article.... at the very end of the report, it says; The coroner has been informed.
This always implies to me, that sometimes, the coroner isn't informed?
Or is it dummied down info, just to let the reader know, yes, normal procedure, that we all assume, is indeed being carried out?
Maybe they should also say; (on same suspicious death news article) The police has been informed.
I should fucking hope so, jeeze
This must be one of those things where American's and English are speaking different languages.