News 02/09/26

Six police officers serving with Greater Manchester Police have been dismissed following an internal investigation into racial discrimination against a colleague.

The probe was launched in 2024 after allegations surfaced regarding racist behaviour in December 2023. Greater Manchester Police confirmed the officers were sacked without notice for gross misconduct. Two former officers would also have been dismissed had they remained with the force.

The family of a student killed in the Nottingham attacks have criticised police for failing to inform them about a mentally ill man fixated on the case.

Nineteen-year-old Barnaby Webber was killed in 2023 alongside Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates. Barnaby’s mother, Emma Webber, said the family was left completely in the dark after the man travelled to Somerset to contact relatives.

NATO and the European Commission have warned that Russia is becoming increasingly reckless following a failed drone attack at Leipzig Airport.

Commission President Ursula von der Leyen called the incident a new escalation on European soil, vowing a swift response alongside Nato Secretary General Mark Rutte. Moscow has rejected German accusations that explosives deliberately targeted a Ukrainian cargo aircraft.

The DVLA has confirmed a criminal prosecution against London mayor Sir Sadiq Khan will be withdrawn after he was falsely convicted of failing to tax a twenty-four-year-old Nissan Micra.

The fifty-five-year-old politician was found guilty last month after official court letters were wrongly sent to a Gordon Ramsay restaurant. City Hall confirmed the vehicle did not belong to the mayor, describing the incident as a criminal scam.

A semi-automatic pistol discovered by tourists in Lake Annecy is being forensicly analysed for potential links to the unresolved shootings of a British family and a local cyclist in the French Alps.

Fifty-year-old Saad al Hilli, his wife Ikbal, and mother-in-law Suhaila al Allaf were murdered alongside French cyclist Sylvain Mollier in September 2012. Prosecutors confirmed the weapon was recovered from shallow waters near the crime scene.

Conservative leader Kemi Badenoch has challenged Andy Burnham over government borrowing and public spending during his first Prime Minister’s Questions.

Mrs Badenoch demanded to know where spending cuts would fall after UK borrowing costs reached an eighteen-year high. Mr Burnham defended his administration, blaming market turbulence on the previous Conservative government’s economic legacy since he assumed office from Sir Keir Starmer in July.

King Charles has welcomed the historic loan of the Bayeux Tapestry to the British Museum, describing it as the ultimate symbol of British and French friendship.

Viewing the medieval masterpiece alongside French President Emmanuel Macron and Prime Minister Andy Burnham, the monarch highlighted his direct descent from William the Conqueror, noting the tapestry illustrates the start of his own family’s history across the British Isles.

A doctor described as Lucy Letby’s boyfriend during her murder trial can now be identified following the lifting of a court anonymity order.

Mark Deakin, who died in July aged fifty-three, worked alongside Letby at the Countess of Chester Hospital when she killed seven infants and attempted to murder six others. The married father later worked as a consultant at Alder Hey Children’s Hospital in Liverpool.

A twenty-two-year-old driver who hit two pedestrians at high speed before fleeing the scene has been jailed at Reading Crown Court.

Mohammed Din, of Jinnah Place, Slough, drove off while his victims lay on the ground, both suffering serious injuries. Police were called to the hit-and-run in Littlebrook Avenue in February last year. Din was subsequently tracked down and sentenced by judges on Tuesday.

Two men and two women have appeared in court charged with murdering a newborn baby girl who was repeatedly stabbed at a house in Sheffield.

The infant, referred to as Baby S, was found at a property in Holywell Heights, Wincobank, on Sunday, having suffered fifteen separate stabbing incidents. Andrea Skopova, Peter Horvath, Nina Horvathova, and Peter Horvath senior face charges including murder and perverting the course of justice.

Golf star Tiger Woods has entered a plea agreement following a car crash in Florida earlier this year.

The fifteen-time major champion was arrested in March after his car rolled over during a collision with a pick-up truck on Jupiter Island. Woods escaped unhurt through the passenger door. Although he passed a breathalyser test for alcohol, the fifty-year-old had refused a drug test and previously denied driving under the influence.

A twenty-five-year-old man from Cookham is due to appear in court later this month charged over an alleged weapons offence.

James Nickels, of Lower Road, faces one count of conspiring to manufacture weapons. He is scheduled to appear alongside two co-defendants from Buckinghamshire at Westminster Magistrates’ Court on Friday, the twenty-fifth of September. One co-defendant also faces explosives and terrorism-related charges.

London mayor Lord Sadiq Khan says he is the victim of a scam after being convicted of failing to tax a car he does not own.

The DVLA has launched an investigation after the politician was fined in a fast-track court for keeping an unlicensed twenty-four-year-old Nissan Micra. DVLA letters regarding the unpaid tax were sent to Gordon Ramsay’s restaurant instead of City Hall, while officials confirmed the vehicle belongs neither to Lord Khan nor Transport for London.

Four people have been charged with murder following the death of a newborn baby girl in Sheffield.

South Yorkshire Police officers responded to reports of concern for the infant’s safety in the Wincobank area on Sunday. The baby girl was found with stab wounds and pronounced dead at the scene. Detectives initially arrested seven people aged between fifteen and thirty-eight before charging two men and two women in connection with the fatal incident.

A judge in Utah has ruled that a twenty-three-year-old man accused of killing right-wing influencer Charlie Kirk will stand trial, with prosecutors permitted to seek the death penalty.

Tyler Robinson faces an aggravated murder charge over the fatal shooting at Utah Valley University campus almost a year ago. Following arguments regarding the strength of the evidence, Judge Tony Graf allowed the case to proceed, which Kirk’s family described as an important step for justice.

NHS doctors are warning of a sharp rise in young people attending accident and emergency units in England in mental health crises.

Analysis by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health shows visits by six to seventeen-year-olds for self-harm, eating disorders, or emotional crisis rose by thirty-six percent between 2019 and 2025. Some patients faced waits exceeding twelve hours. The government says it plans to improve community support services soon.

Tehran has launched missile and drone strikes against US targets in Jordan, Kuwait, Iraq, and Bahrain following resumed American military attacks.

The Iranian Red Crescent reported five people died, including a child, when missile shrapnel struck a home during a wedding in southern Iran. US Central Command stated it never targets civilians, adding its strikes followed Revolutionary Guard attacks on commercial shipping and American forces.

Sixteen people have been killed and twenty-eight others injured in a bus crash in Egypt’s south Sinai region.

The local health ministry confirmed the fatal collision occurred on the road between Dahab and Nuweibaa, located north of Sharm el-Sheikh. The southern Sinai peninsula remains a highly popular tourist destination, renowned internationally for Red Sea diving and snorkelling.

Apple has renamed Lake Ontario as Lake America for US users on its Maps app, following an executive order from Donald Trump.

The change stems from a trade dispute that saw Washington impose fifty percent tariffs on Canadian goods. Canadian users still see the original name. Technology rival Google made a similar adjustment recently, sparking a social media backlash.