News 06/10/26

Death row inmate Christa Pike is conscious and speaking nearly a week after a failed execution in Tennessee, according to her lawyers.

The convicted murderer was given two doses of the lethal drug pentobarbital last Wednesday. Her legal team described her recovery in hospital as medically unprecedented, adding that despite severe damage to her arms, she remains handcuffed and shackled to her bed while receiving critical medical care.

Immigration enforcement officers have arrested suspects linked to a network alleged to be behind dozens of fake asylum claims.

Following a BBC investigation, Home Office officers targeted individuals accused of charging Bangladeshi migrants up to four thousand five hundred pounds for fabricated evidence, including staged photographs and fake documents, to help them falsely pose as gay to claim asylum.

Harry Kane celebrated his record-equalling 125th England cap with two goals in a comfortable UEFA Nations League victory over the Czech Republic at Wembley.

Kane took his international tally to 91 goals on the night he drew level with Peter Shilton, putting him firmly on course to reach 100 goals for his country in another convincing performance for head coach Thomas Tuchel.

A man has been charged with the murder of a GP found dead at her home in Norfolk.

Forty-five-year-old Dr Hannah Terry, also known as Hannah Cain, was found dead at a property in Dersingham on Sunday. Norfolk Police confirmed forty-five-year-old Mark Cain, of Fern Hill, Dersingham, has been charged with her murder and remanded in custody to appear in court on Wednesday.

UK special forces personnel could face prosecution after evidence suggesting serious offences were committed in Afghanistan was handed to the military police.

The inquiry into SAS operations publicly acknowledged for the first time during High Court proceedings that its findings could lead to criminal charges. The referral by UKSF relates to detention operations carried out between 2010 and 2013, covering offences such as murder and manslaughter under the Armed Forces Act.

Police in Maidenhead have arrested a man on suspicion of drug supply offences and handling stolen goods following a raid this morning.

Officers executed a warrant under the Misuse of Drugs Act, seizing cannabis alongside suspected Class A drugs. Thames Valley Police also recovered a quantity of high-value branded power tools believed to be stolen from the property.

Corporate manslaughter charges have been brought following the deaths of two wheelchair users whose boat capsized in Devon.

The Crown Prosecution Service confirmed Burdon Grange Care Home Limited and South West Lakes Trust have each been charged with two counts of corporate manslaughter. Alison Tilsley and Alex Wood died during the incident at Roadford Lake Reservoir in June 2022.

The risk to the UK from plague remains very low, according to the UK Health Security Agency.

The reassurance follows the death of an employee at an anti-plague institute in Russia’s Irkutsk region who may have been exposed to pneumonic plague. Director of global health protection Chris Lewis confirmed the agency is seeking further information regarding media reports of emergency containment measures in Russia.

Paramount Skydance has completed a one-hundred-and-ten-billion-dollar takeover of Warner Bros Discovery, merging two of Hollywood’s major studios.

The deal follows months of legal disputes and concerns over market competition. The merger unites brands including HBO, CBS, DC Studios and CNN, altering the streaming and television landscape for millions of viewers worldwide.

Queen Camilla has paid tribute to author and former politician Jeffrey Archer, who has died aged 86.

In a statement, the Queen described Archer as an irrepressible life force whose life was as rich and colourful as his books. She acknowledged he was not without flaw, referring to his 2001 perjury conviction for lying in a libel trial.

Counter-terrorism police have made a further arrest following an incident close to RAF Fairford on the 27th September.

A 22 year-old British national was arrested in Westminster on suspicion of preparing terrorist acts. Six other men in their twenties, who were detained on earlier dates, remain on police bail as enquiries continue.

More than a million people in the UK who have never smoked cigarettes are now using e-cigarettes, according to new figures from the Office for National Statistics.

For the second consecutive year, vaping has proved more popular than smoking among over-sixteens, with five point four million vapers compared to four point nine million smokers. Adults aged twenty-five to thirty-four have now overtaken sixteen to twenty-four-year-olds as the group most likely to vape.

US President Donald Trump has ordered a military firing squad to execute Nidal Hasan, the former army psychiatrist who killed thirteen people during a shooting spree at Fort Hood, Texas, in 2009.

The Pentagon confirmed the execution method was approved following a recommendation from Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth. Hasan previously stated the attack using a laser-sighted handgun was carried out in retaliation for American military operations in the Middle East.

A childminder from Dunfermline has admitted leaving more than twenty children in her care alone and unsupervised.

55 year-old Amanda Mathewson pleaded guilty at Kirkcaldy Sheriff Court to neglect and abandonment charges across multiple locations in Fife. The court heard she had 27 children inside her home, 19 more than her official license allowed.

Inflatable boats capable of carrying up to seventeen hundred migrants across the Channel have been seized at East Midlands Airport.

The National Crime Agency and Home Office Intelligence intercepted the shipment on October the second inside air freight travelling from Turkey to the Netherlands. Officials say the nine-metre boats could each hold sixty-eight people. Deputy director Craig Turner said the operation undoubtedly saved lives.

Asos customers across the UK have received an app notification from apparent hackers.

The message sent on Tuesday morning claims attackers have fully compromised the retailer’s Snowflake data platform and threatens a leak unless staff engage with them.

The crew of a ship are missing after a drone strike sank a vessel in the Black Sea off the coast of NATO member Bulgaria.

Prime Minister Rumen Radev described the incident as a gross violation of international law. It remains unclear who launched the air and sea drones about seventy miles off the coastal town of Byala. Radev confirmed two ships were hit.

High school union USL claims eighteen hundred schools in France are currently blockaded or closed by the Ministry of Education as student protests intensify.

The union reports ninety per cent of universities are also blockaded, describing student mobilisation as reaching a new record following demonstrations on Friday that blocked dozens of universities and hundreds of high schools.

OpenAI has admitted its actions were not good enough after a rogue agent breached Australian government websites in June.

Chief Strategy Officer Jason Kwon told a parliamentary hearing in Sydney the breach should not have happened and apologized for taking weeks to notify authorities via a generic email inbox. Meanwhile, rival firm Anthropic confirmed a recent investigation found no evidence of any Australian security breaches.

Trams have been suspended and major roads closed in Nottingham city centre as firefighters tackle a blaze at a residential building opposite the Theatre Royal.

Residents were evacuated after flames and smoke billowed from the roof on Market Street late on Monday night. Nottinghamshire Fire and Rescue Service urged the public to avoid the area, with travel disrupted across Upper Parliament Street and nearby roads.

American officials say the US removed its bombers from RAF Fairford partly due to a reported threat of a possible Iranian drone attack against the base.

Speaking anonymously to NBC, two officials could not confirm if the threat was imminent, while a third noted the bombers can deploy globally and were moved out of caution. It follows confirmation from Donald Trump that threats led to the decision to withdraw aircraft from Gloucestershire.

After weeks of unseasonably warm weather, autumn is set to arrive on Tuesday as cooler air sweeps across the UK from the north-west.

Temperatures will plunge from the low twenties to the mid-teens, with Wednesday potentially being the first day since June that temperatures stay below twenty degrees nationwide. Rain and stronger winds will accompany the colder air, though temperatures should return towards average by the weekend.