News 29/11/25

Donald Trump says the airspace above and around Venezuela is being closed completely.

The US president announced the decision on Truth Social during rising tensions with the government of Nicolas Maduro. He warned airlines, pilots, drug dealers and human traffickers to consider the area shut in its entirety.

Slough Jets enjoyed a dominant return to home ice with a ten nil win over Cardiff Fire.

Scoring built slowly before the team found fluency and reached ten goals. Marcus Mitchell scored his first for the Jets and earned man of the match. The offence produced numerous shots, while Matt Smittal and Conor Dudley stopped eleven for a shared shutout. The Jets visit Streatham tomorrow.

Dozens of flood alerts are in force across England and Wales as heavy rain is expected.

The Environment Agency has thirty five alerts in England and Natural Resources Wales has ten. A Met Office yellow warning for rain covers several regions, with up to thirty millimetres likely and more over higher ground. A yellow ice warning is also in place overnight.

Passengers are being reassured that disruption should be minimal after a software issue affected Airbus A320 aircraft.

Airbus warned intense solar radiation could corrupt data critical to flight controls. The Civil Aviation Authority says airlines worked overnight to install updates and expects only limited impact. Thousands of planes in the A320 family require the update before they can fly.

Joshua Travis’s family have paid tribute after the fourteen year old footballer died when he was struck by a train in Burton Joyce.

British Transport Police say officers were called just after seven on Wednesday and he died at the scene. His family described him as full of energy, with an infectious smile, kind eyes and deep love to give.

A man from Afghanistan has been charged in Southampton with sexually assaulting three women and with entering the UK illegally.

Police say Sohail Amiri, aged thirty, is accused of trying to kiss a woman in Upper Shaftesbury Avenue on Tuesday. He also faces charges over alleged comments and approaches to two women in Westwood Road on twenty three September.

Volodymyr Zelenskyy has appointed Rustem Umerov, secretary of Ukraine’s National Security and Defence Council, to lead talks with the United States.

Zelenskyy says Umerov and delegates are already travelling. Umerov replaces Andrii Yermak, who resigned yesterday. The Ukrainian and US teams will work through outcomes from last weekend’s Geneva negotiations on the American plan to end the war.

Thames Water discharged sewage into Slough water for eight hours overnight on twenty nine November.

Effluent was released from the Wood Lane treatment works into the Roundmoor Ditch by the Jubilee River from nine fifteen pm on twenty eight November until five fifteen am. A further seven and a half hours of sewage were discharged earlier that day.

Jeremy Corbyn says there have been stresses and strains in the early stages of Your Party as supporters gather in Liverpool.

Speaking to Sky News, he said the situation had improved in recent days. Mr Corbyn has clashed with cofounder Zarah Sultana over the party’s launch and structure, calling her a colleague when asked if they were friends.

Asylum seekers will no longer be allowed to use taxis for medical appointments from February after a review into transport costs.

A BBC investigation found long journeys, including a two hundred and fifty mile trip costing six hundred pounds. The government says it has been spending an average of fifteen point eight million pounds each year.

Two Wetherspoon pubs have been recognised for the quality and standards of their toilets.

The Moon and Spoon in Slough and The King and Castle in Windsor were honoured in the 2025 Loo of the Year Awards. Inspectors made unannounced visits to sites across the UK at thousands of toilets nationwide to highlight and improve toilet provision.

The Trump administration has halted all asylum decisions after two National Guard soldiers were shot in Washington DC.

USCIS says the pause will stay until every applicant is vetted. It follows President Trump’s pledge to permanently pause migration from third world countries. One soldier has died and another is in critical condition, and officials blame an Afghan national.