News 22/08/26

Seven people, including two police officers, have died following a collision on the A66 near Middlesbrough.

Cleveland Police confirmed the crash occurred in South Bank at twenty to four this morning. The victims include two serving officers travelling in a marked police vehicle and five members of the public who were in a Volkswagen Passat. Redcar MP Anna Turley paid tribute on social media to the officers who lost their lives while serving the community.

A thirty-two-year-old man from Slough has been arrested on suspicion of exposure following an incident on the Thames Path near Eton Wick.

Thames Valley Police say the incident happened at around three o’clock on Sunday, the sixteenth of August. The suspect has since been released on police bail, and investigating officers are appealing for any witnesses or anyone with information to come forward.

Constance Marten has been granted permission to appeal against her fourteen-year prison sentence following the death of her baby daughter.

Marten and her partner Mark Gordon were in hiding when infant Victoria died in a tent on the South Downs in January 2023. They had fled to prevent the child being taken into care. Both were convicted of manslaughter, child cruelty, concealing a birth, and perverting the course of justice.

Rescuers in Ukraine have worked through the night searching for survivors after a Russian double-tap drone strike hit a busy shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih.

Local officials say sixteen people were killed and one hundred and thirty injured, with nine people, including two children, still missing. President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attack, stating the second wave targeted emergency workers. Overnight trading of strikes left at least six further people dead across both countries.

Tens of thousands of people go missing across the UK every year, with Thames Valley Police alone handling around sixteen thousand cases annually.

The force receives approximately ten thousand missing person reports each year, alongside six thousand missing-related incidents. On any given day, between ten and thirty people are listed as missing across the force area, with an investigation launched in every recorded case to ensure the person’s safety.

Multiple people have died following a collision involving a police vehicle and a Volkswagen Passat on the A66 near Middlesbrough in the early hours of this morning, Cleveland Police have confirmed.

The incident has prompted a significant emergency response to what officers describe as a quickly-evolving situation. The A66 remains closed in both directions between Normanby Road and Church Lane, with motorists advised to seek alternative routes. Police have not yet clarified the exact number of fatalities.

Social media platform TikTok has agreed to pay $400m – around £293m—to settle a US lawsuit alleging it violated children’s privacy.

The agreement stems from a legal action brought by the Department of Justice, which accused TikTok and parent company ByteDance of collecting vast amounts of data from users under thirteen. Federal officials described the settlement as a major step forward for online child protection.

Rescuers in Ukraine worked through the night searching for survivors following a Russian double-tap drone strike on a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih.

Local officials confirmed sixteen people were killed and one hundred and thirty injured, with nine people still missing. President Volodymyr Zelensky condemned the attack, stating the second wave deliberately targeted emergency workers at the scene. Further strikes early today killed at least two more people.

More than sixty-eight thousand men are diagnosed with prostate cancer in the UK every year, equating to one diagnosis every eight minutes, according to new figures from Macmillan Cancer Support.

The charity’s latest estimates reveal that around six hundred thousand men are currently living with the disease across the UK, representing a rise of one hundred thousand since 2020. Macmillan confirmed that prostate cancer remains the most common form of cancer diagnosed nationwide.

More new students are choosing to live at home while attending university this year than at any point in the last nine years, according to new Ucas data.

Over eighty-one thousand UK eighteen-year-olds confirmed in their accepted applications that they intend to commute from home, representing just over one in three students. That compares to around one in five in 2017. While figures vary by region—reaching forty-eight per cent in Scotland compared to twenty per cent in Wales—the upward trend is consistent across the country.