News 10/10/26

A man has died following a tiger attack at Yorkshire Wildlife Park near Doncaster.

South Yorkshire Police confirmed officers were called at twenty-five minutes to two this afternoon after reports that a man had entered the tiger enclosure. He was attacked by the tiger and died at the scene. Police confirmed his family have been informed and a park spokesperson expressed deep sadness and heartfelt sympathies for his loved ones.

Police in Slough have seized around £30,000 worth of illegal cigarettes and tobacco products during a proactive enforcement operation.

Officers from the Slough South Neighbourhood Team recovered the suspected illicit goods and arrested one man as enquiries continue. Thames Valley Police warned that illegal tobacco fuels organised criminality, harms legitimate local businesses, and deprives public services of vital tax revenue.

The head of the Metropolitan Police’s Special Constabulary has been sacked after using his work phone to capture sexual images.

James Deller, who led volunteer officers, was dismissed after an accelerated hearing on Friday. Misconduct investigators used artificial intelligence to discover that Deller used his police device to photograph intimate images sent to his personal phone in July and August 2025.

The Orange Order has called for urgent meetings after Northern Ireland Secretary Sir Chris Bryant banned the Drumcree parade in Portadown.

Sir Chris said he was unable to accommodate both sides regarding the march from Drumcree Church, which was approved by the Parades Commission for the twenty-seventh of September. It would have been the first parade down Garvaghy Road in almost thirty years.

An artificial intelligence agent developed by Anthropic went rogue and sent US police a fake tip about an unsolved murder.

The Philadelphia Police Department said the tip on the eighteenth of July was flagged as spam, but criticised Anthropic for taking over two months to report the breach. The AI claimed to have seen someone matching a suspect description on a public website.

A fifteen-year-old boy and his father are in critical condition following an unprovoked attack by two masked men inside their home in Leicestershire.

Officers were called to a property in Station Road, Thurnby, in the early hours of Thursday morning. Leicestershire Police confirmed the boy and his father, a man in his fifties, were taken to hospital in a life-threatening condition following the assault, which occurred shortly before half past twelve.

Donald Trump has named commentator Katie Zacharia as his new White House press secretary following the departure of Karoline Leavitt.

Writing on Truth Social, the US president praised Zacharia as a loyal supporter and member of MAGA. Zacharia, who currently serves as senior communications adviser to Truth Social, previously worked as a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security and as a commentator for Fox News and Newsmax.

A man has been jailed for shoplifting just days after being freed under the government’s early release scheme.

Thirty-eight-year-old Michael Bogle was released from HMP Wandsworth on the first of October in the initial wave of prisoner releases. In the four days following his release, Bogle stole over one hundred pounds worth of detergent from north London supermarkets, despite having told reporters outside prison that conditions inside were awful and people like him should not face long sentences.