News 24/09/25

The first family has arrived in the UK under Prime Minister Keir Starmer’s one-in, one-out deal with France.

The Home Office says the arrival is part of “critical first steps” under the scheme, following the removal of four people from Britain. The new arrivals are a family of three, including a small child. The agreement, which came into force last month, aims to deport those who cross the Channel illegally while accepting approved applicants from France.

The government is exploring financial support for companies in Jaguar Land Rover’s supply chain after the carmaker halted production in August.

A cyber attack forced JLR to shut down its IT systems, with factories expected to remain closed until at least October. Officials are concerned that smaller firms relying solely on JLR could collapse. One option being considered is the government stepping in to buy components to keep suppliers afloat until production resumes.

Jeremy Corbyn has apologised for confusion surrounding the creation of a new left-wing political party, as he announced the launch of a membership scheme.

In a video message, the former Labour leader admitted the new project, called Your Party, had endured “fraught days” and “hadn’t covered ourselves in glory.” The row began after fellow MP Zarah Sultana launched her own membership portal. She has since backed away from legal action, saying she wants to reconcile.

A serial shoplifter who stole £107,000 worth of goods from Boots has been jailed for a year.

Liam Hutchinson was also handed a ten-year ban from every Boots store in the UK and barred from Kensington and Chelsea for five years. Detectives say he carried out 99 offences across the borough between May and August this year.

A shooting at a Customs Enforcement field office in Dallas is being investigated as an act of targeted violence, the FBI has said.

Four people were shot, one of whom has died. The attacker also died from a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

Dallas FBI Special Agent Joseph Rothrock described it as a “coordinated attack” and said it was “just the most recent example we’ve seen of targeted violence.”

The Home Secretary has ordered an urgent review into the use and cost of taxis to transfer asylum seekers from hotels to appointments.

Shabana Mahmood acted after reports emerged of journeys costing hundreds of pounds. One asylum seeker said he was driven 250 miles to see a GP, a trip the driver said cost the Home Office £600.

Currently, asylum seekers receive a bus pass for one return trip a week, but taxis are used for essential additional travel, including medical appointments.

Israel has killed twenty-two people, including nine children, in strikes on Gaza City, according to Palestinian officials.

Gaza civil defence spokesman Mahmoud Bassal described the attack as a “horrific massacre”. Video from the Souq Firas district appeared to show children’s bodies being pulled from rubble. Medics in the Hamas-run territory say a total of fifty-one people have died in strikes across Gaza today.

The Kremlin has hit back at Donald Trump’s claim that Ukraine could retake Russian-occupied territory, calling the idea “deeply mistaken”.

Officials insisted the invasion was “not an aimless war” and said efforts to normalise relations with Washington were moving far slower than hoped. The pushback follows Trump’s suggestion that Kyiv may be in a position to win back all its land.

Sir Sadiq Khan has branded Donald Trump “racist, sexist, misogynistic and Islamophobic” after the president’s latest attack on London.

In his UN address on Tuesday, Mr Trump claimed the UK capital was being run by a “terrible mayor” and even suggested it wanted to operate under Sharia law – a claim for which there is no evidence. The London mayor said he was “living rent free” in the president’s head, after years of ongoing criticism.

A man has been arrested over a cyber-attack that caused widespread disruption at airports including Heathrow.

The National Crime Agency says the suspect, in his forties, was detained in West Sussex as part of its probe into an incident affecting Collins Aerospace systems.

The attack forced airlines to check in passengers manually, leading to hundreds of delays. Paul Foster, who heads the NCA’s cyber crime unit, called the arrest a positive step but said inquiries were at an early stage.

YouTube creators contributed more than £2.2 billion to the UK economy last year and supported around 45,000 jobs.

The figures come from a report by Oxford Economics, published as MPs launch a new cross-party group to represent UK creators and influencers. Co-chair Feryal Clark, the Labour MP for Enfield North, described them as trailblazers of a new creative revolution who had been undervalued in Westminster for too long.

Fitness YouTuber Lilly Sabri, who has nearly six and a half million followers, welcomed both the findings and the new parliamentary group.

A pickup truck donated by Maidenhead’s Alastair Caldwell has been filmed defending Kyiv from drone attacks.

The former McLaren team manager, who helped steer Formula One to world championship success, gifted the vehicle through the Oxfordshire-based charity Driving Ukraine.

Footage of the truck on the streets of the Ukrainian capital was captured on September 2.

At least 14 people have died in Taiwan after Super Typhoon Ragasa battered the island.

The storm, the strongest to hit the region in years, dumped around 70 centimetres of rain on the east, forcing thousands from their homes. Flights were grounded, and schools and businesses shut down. Hong Kong and mainland China are now preparing for impact.

Meanwhile in the Philippines, authorities say at least four more people have been killed, with almost 700,000 affected in the north of Luzon.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has been forced to hand back almost five million pounds after wrongly claiming it provided safe maternity care.

The trust received the money under a scheme designed to reward hospitals that meet national standards on safety and staffing.
But an investigation by NHS Resolution, the health service’s litigation body, found those standards had not been met and ordered the trust to repay the funds.

In a statement, the trust said it has since allocated extra funding to improve its maternity services.