News 10/11/25

A Berkshire man has been found guilty of murder after two people were attacked in Slough.

Jakub Nowicki was convicted by a unanimous jury of murdering 46-year-old Tomasz Kopec and assaulting another person at a property on Grant Avenue in April. Police were called to the address at around 6.45 in the morning, where they discovered both victims with serious injuries. Mr Kopec died in hospital two days later.

The Chancellor has signalled she could remove the two-child limit on working-age benefits introduced in 2017.

Rachel Reeves said it was not right that children in larger families were “penalised through no fault of their own.” The move would mark one of the biggest welfare changes since Labour took office, following months of calls from MPs to scrap the cap entirely.

Treasury officials are understood to be considering a tapered approach, giving parents most support for their first child and slightly less for additional children.

Three men and a teenager have been charged in connection with a kidnap in Windsor.

Lewis Leighton, Tommy Jones, Joshua King and a 17-year-old boy, who cannot be named for legal reasons, are due to appear in court. Leighton and Jones have been charged with kidnap, blackmail, false imprisonment, assault and possession of a knife. Both have been remanded in custody.

King faces similar charges, excluding false imprisonment.

US media report that a letter from President Donald Trump’s legal team has been sent to the BBC, demanding a “full and fair retraction” of the Panorama documentary or face legal action for one billion dollars, or around seven hundred and sixty million pounds.

The letter gives the BBC a deadline of Friday, the 14th of November, at ten o’clock GMT, warning that failure to comply would leave Trump with no option but to enforce his legal and equitable rights. It specifically refers to the documentary that aired last year and warned that damages of no less than one billion dollars would be sought.

Firefighters have been tackling a blaze in a garden near Slough Trading Estate after rubbish and waste caught fire.

One crew from Buckinghamshire and two from Royal Berkshire Fire and Rescue Service attended a property on Greenside just after half past two on Sunday afternoon.

Firefighters in breathing apparatus used two hose reel jets to tackle the flames. The three crews were on scene for around thirty-two minutes before the fire was brought under control.

A second migrant who had been removed from the UK to France under the government’s “one in, one out” scheme has returned to the UK.

The man was immediately detained after being detected by biometric checks and will be sent back to France as quickly as possible, the Home Office said. The pilot scheme is designed to discourage migrants from crossing the Channel in small boats. Last month, an Iranian man returned to the UK one month after being deported to France and was sent back again.

At least eight people have died after a car exploded at the gates of New Delhi’s Red Fort, according to Indian police.

The blast happened shortly before seven in the evening, near a busy metro station outside the historic former Mughal palace. Local media report eleven people injured, and authorities in Mumbai and Uttar Pradesh have been placed on high alert.

Donald Trump has issued full pardons for former aides and lawyers involved in attempts to overturn the 2020 election results.

Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Sidney Powell, and John Eastman are among those pardoned. A Justice Department official confirmed the proclamation describes the pardons as “full, complete, and unconditional,” but it explicitly does not apply to Trump himself.

The International Olympic Committee is considering a blanket ban on transgender women competing in women’s sports, Sky News reports.

The proposals also target athletes with differences of sex development, or DSD, citing potential physical advantages. IOC members were briefed on how sex testing could be implemented, following similar measures already introduced by World Athletics.

A teenager has been sentenced to at least sixteen years for murdering another sixteen-year-old on New Year’s Eve in 2023.

Harry Pitman was stabbed in Primrose Hill Park in north London as he gathered with friends to watch the fireworks.Eighteen-year-old Areece Lloyd-Hall was found guilty at the Old Bailey last month.

The court heard the two teenagers didn’t know each other and had been with separate groups of friends when a confrontation broke out.

A woman has been taken to hospital after a hazardous liquid was reportedly thrown at her in Glasgow’s Buchanan Street.

Police Scotland say emergency services were called to the busy shopping area around six twenty on Sunday evening. A forty-six-year-old woman was treated in hospital, while a fifty-one-year-old woman has been arrested and charged in connection with the alleged assault.

A woman has died after being stabbed in the neck in Birmingham city centre.

The 34-year-old was attacked on Smallbrook Queensway just before nine on Friday night and was taken to hospital, but later died from her injuries. West Midlands Police say a man, 21-year-old Djeison Rafael, has been charged with attempted murder and is due before Birmingham Magistrates Court on Monday.

Former Radio 1 DJ Tim Westwood has been granted conditional bail as he faces charges of rape and sexual assault against seven women.

The 68-year-old appeared at Westminster Magistrates’ Court wearing a dark grey shirt, speaking only to confirm his details. He’s accused of offences dating back to the 1990s, including three indecent assaults at BBC studios.

Westwood, who recently returned from Nigeria, was not required to enter any pleas and will appear again at a later date.

Doctors in Scotland and the US have completed what’s believed to be the world’s first remote stroke procedure using a robot.

Professor Iris Grunwald from the University of Dundee performed a thrombectomy — removing a blood clot — on a cadaver located across the city, while controlling the robot from Ninewells Hospital. Hours later, neurosurgeon Ricardo Hanel in Florida replicated the process from more than four thousand miles away.

Experts say the technology could one day allow stroke specialists to treat patients anywhere in the world.

BBC chairman Samir Shah is expected to apologise and provide further details on the Panorama episode that aired the edited speech by Donald Trump.

Shah will give his response to the Culture Media and Sport Committee tomorrow after it asked how he would address concerns.

He said yesterday was a “sad day” for the BBC, while committee chairwoman Dame Caroline Dinenage said Davie’s resignation was “regrettable” but “restoring trust in the corporation must come first”.

The BBC is expected to apologise to the committee in writing today.

The UK’s worst areas for uninsured driving have been revealed, as a hit-and-run victim described how he was “left for dead” with catastrophic injuries.

According to the Motor Insurers’ Bureau, every 20 minutes someone in the UK is hit by an uninsured or hit-and-run driver. The bureau says more than 26,000 people make claims each year — and at least one person every day is so badly hurt they need life-long care. Every week, at least one person is killed by an uninsured driver.

Thurrock in Essex tops the list of the worst offending areas, based on new data from the MIB — the non-profit organisation set up to protect victims of uninsured and untraceable drivers.

Ofsted has launched its new school report card system in one of the biggest shake-ups to inspections in decades.

The change follows the death of headteacher Ruth Perry, whose family said she took her own life after an inspection in 2023. A coroner ruled the inspection contributed to her death, prompting widespread calls for reform.

The new approach replaces single-word judgements with report cards that rate schools across key areas including quality of education, behaviour, leadership and personal development.

A study by NatWest has named Slough as one of the UK’s rising business growth hotspots.

It places the town alongside Manchester, Leeds and Telford as an emerging innovation hub. The research highlights how towns like Slough are vital for national economic resilience ahead of the Autumn Budget.

The findings come from NatWest’s Mid-Market Companies Index, which recognises smaller authorities helping to balance growth beyond London’s economic dominance.