Hi.
Mrs KKOB here. Yes the wool and yarn shops all sell needles and almost everything else to do with knitting.
I've never seen a pattern in English yet and I've been looking for 3 years lol. I get mine either through Ebay or sent by family. There are some good sites online where you can download and print off some nice patterns.
Look for UK sites tho, quite a few of them are USA and they always seem to be patterns using circular needles or the instructions are hard to follow.
Was there anything in particular pattern wise, that you were looking for? ,