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• Jailed former bankers have their convictions quashed

  October 7, 2026 · 31 min

  Five former City traders who were sentenced to prison in one of the biggest scandals of the financial crisis have had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal. Also: Kemi Badenoch has told the Conservative conference in…

• French police fire tear gas at school protesters

  October 6, 2026 · 31 min

  Police in France fire tear gas at protestors during the biggest demonstrations yet about conditions in schools. One of the unions organising rallies claimed 450,000 people took to the streets in more than thirty towns and cities. Police…

• Downing Street insists RAF Fairford is safe

  October 5, 2026 · 30 min

  The American Vice President, JD Vance, has said the US acted out of an 'abundance of caution' when it removed its bombers from RAF Fairford yesterday. Also: A teenager's hand is blown off during nationwide student protests in France. And…

• The Green Party votes to adopt a policy that Zionism is racism.

  October 4, 2026 · 17 min

  Members of the Green Party of England and Wales have voted to define Zionism as racist. Four of the five Green MPs had voiced public opposition to the motion - which described Zionism as an ideology in support of "an ethnonationalist…

• UAE prosecutors say co-pilot used cockpit axe in plane attack

  October 3, 2026 · 16 min

  Investigators in the United Arab Emirates say the co-pilot on a plane bound for Israel used an axe, stored in the cockpit for emergencies, as a weapon to attack the aircraft's captain. Also: Spanish riot police and protesters in Valencia…

• G7 releases 100 million barrels of fuel reserves

  October 2, 2026 · 30 min

  The G7 bloc of major economies agrees the release of a hundred million barrels of strategic fuel reserves, to try to bring down the cost of diesel. Also: Riot police have fired tear gas in Paris, as students continue protests across France…

• Hundreds of prisoners walk free

  October 1, 2026 · 31 min

  The first prisoners to be released early under the government's scheme to create more space in prisons in England and Wales have walked free. Victims and probation service staff are among those to criticise the move. Also: Executions in…

• RAF Fairford suspects released on bail

  September 30, 2026 · 30 min

  The British men suspected of plotting a bomb attack on an RAF airbase in Gloucestershire have all been released on bail. The head of counter terrorism police says the investigation is still ongoing. Also: the Chancellor, John Healey, tells…