News 18/10/26

A flight carrying fifty-one passengers and six crew members has made an emergency landing in Bulgaria following a bomb threat.

The Airbus A320 was travelling from Tel Aviv to Vienna when the crew reported a threat signal near the Romanian border. Bulgaria’s Ministry of Transport confirmed that the aircraft diverted to Sofia, where it landed extraordinarily so that security checks could be carried out by authorities.

Police in Slough have deployed CCTV vans alongside high-visibility patrols in Lismore Park as part of efforts to tackle violence and anti-social behaviour.

Officers from the Slough East Neighbourhood Team say the operation aims to identify offenders and prevent incidents. A police spokesperson confirmed the patrols yielded positive results after officers engaged with local residents to gather valuable information regarding community concerns.

French President Emmanuel Macron has called for calm and order following widespread rioting and looting during nationwide demonstrations.

Speaking from the Élysée Palace, he warned participants against escalating violence, stating everyone felt anger and shame. Around five hundred and fifty thousand people protested over rising fuel prices, living costs and public services, with Mr Macron insisting legitimate demands must be separated from criminal destruction.

At least one person has been killed and five injured following overnight strikes on two oil facilities in St Petersburg.

Region Governor Alexander Beglov said emergency crews tackled blazes at the Ruchyi depot and the St Petersburg Oil Terminal. Attacks also hit an Ozon logistics hub and a VKontakte data centre. Kyiv is yet to comment, following earlier warnings from President Volodymyr Zelensky over Russian energy attacks.

Canadian Prime Minister Mark Carney has confirmed four service members have died and dozens remain seriously injured following a fire at a military base in Alberta.

Photos from the site show emergency responders alongside blackened land, with fire crews having faced fierce winds reaching up to sixty-two miles per hour as they worked to contain the blaze.

The Health Secretary has instructed NHS England to draw up urgent plans to eliminate corridor care for children in hospitals.

Speaking on the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg, Yvette Cooper said new standards must be established for how children are treated in emergency departments following calls from health groups. Figures show over fifty thousand patients waited more than twelve hours in emergency rooms from a decision to admit in September, up from August.

A police officer is receiving treatment in hospital after being shot in Nottingham city centre.

Nottinghamshire Police said the officer approached two suspects on Angel Row shortly before ten to five on Sunday morning. He sustained a wound to his foot and remains under observation. Detectives confirmed a firearm was recovered at the scene as search teams track a man and a woman who fled.

France has awoken to widespread damage after a day of rioting alongside fuel and cost-of-living protests.

Police arrested around eighteen hundred people on Saturday as over half a million demonstrators took to the streets. While most marches remained peaceful, masked rioters in Paris, Marseille and other locations set fire to cars and buildings, leaving pavements strewn with debris, charred vehicles and shattered shopfronts.

A Nottinghamshire NHS trust has dismissed four more staff members for inappropriately accessing the medical records of the Nottingham attacks victims, taking the total number of sacked employees to fifteen.

Barnaby Webber, Grace O’Malley-Kumar and Ian Coates were killed in June twenty twenty-three by Valdo Calocane. Grace’s father, Dr Sanjoy Kumar, expressed his shock at the findings, saying it was time for the trust to get a handle on such systemic failures.

Reform UK has suspended a party activist recorded by an ITV News undercover reporter claiming you cannot be Muslim and British.

The party is also investigating two councillors filmed apparently advocating the mass shooting of grooming gang members. Questions have been raised over Reform’s vetting procedures for candidates, though a spokesperson confirmed legal action is being pursued against ITV and the production company involved.