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Selkis
Selkis (short for selkouutiset or "clear news" is broadcast by on Radio Finland by YLE, the Finnish National Broadcaster. The news is spoken in standard Finnish at a slower than normal pace.

Each short program contains 3 news stories and is broadcast on each weekday on Radio Finland. You can also hear the programme and see the text of the broadcast on the YLE website at http://www.yle.fi/radiopeili/sivu.php?uname=selkouutiset.

The following news items here are extracts from the programme. Many thanks to YLE for their kind permission to reproduced them here.

1. Russian 3 Euro car charge leads to 8 hour border queues!

2. Sweden thinks Finns teach Swedish badly (spoken at normal speed)

3. Hoitajien palkankorotuksia ajava vetoomus luovutettiin