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    Jailed former bankers have their convictions quashed

    07/10/2026 | 30 mins.
    Five former City traders who were sentenced to prison in one of the biggest scandals of the financial crisis have had their convictions overturned by the Court of Appeal. Also: Kemi Badenoch has told the Conservative conference in Birmingham that the party would scrap inheritance tax for family homes and cut welfare spending if it won the next election. And the Nobel chemistry prize is awarded for work on mirror image molecules. (Image: PA)
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    French police fire tear gas at school protesters

    06/10/2026 | 30 mins.
    Police in France fire tear gas at protestors during the biggest demonstrations yet about conditions in schools. One of the unions organising rallies claimed 450,000 people took to the streets in more than thirty towns and cities. Police claim around half that number were involved. Many gatherings remained peaceful, but tensions were high in some places after a 15-year-old boy lost his hand when a stun grenade exploded in Lens yesterday. Hugh Schofield reports from Paris, Nick Beake from Lens and Mark Lowen from Marseille, with analysis from our Economics Editor Faisal Islam.
    Two police officers who used pepper spray and a taser on a 92-year-old disabled man in his care home in East Sussex have been sacked. Stephen Smith and Rachel Comotto were called to Saint Leonards on Sea after Donald Burgess, who had dementia, threatened staff with his cutlery knife. Charlie Rose reports.
    The Conservative leader, Kemi Badenoch, has ruled out forming a government with Reform UK if the next general election results in a hung parliament. She told the BBC she would rather have another election than do a deal with Reform's leader, Nigel Farage. Mrs Badenoch was speaking at the Conservative party conference in Birmingham. Our political editor Chris Mason reports.
    The online fashion retailer, ASOS, says it is investigating unauthorised pop-up messages appearing on its app which claim the company had been hacked. Dozens of people have told the BBC they received a message on their phones' home screens, saying the firm's data management systems had been “fully compromised”. It's thought to be part of an attempt to blackmail the company. Chris Vallance reports.
    And Professor Francis Halzen, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. He's behind an ambitious project at the South Pole. It's enabled scientists to detect more of a particular and especially important type of this elusive subatomic particle. Our science correspondent Victoria Gill reports.
    (Image: EPA/Shutterstock)
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    Downing Street insists RAF Fairford is safe

    05/10/2026 | 30 mins.
    The American Vice President, JD Vance, has said the US acted out of an 'abundance of caution' when it removed its bombers from RAF Fairford yesterday. Also: A teenager's hand is blown off during nationwide student protests in France. And the joint winners of this year's Nobel Prize for Medicine are recognised for helping scientists learn more about the inner workings of the brain. (Image: PA)
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    The Green Party votes to adopt a policy that Zionism is racism.

    04/10/2026 | 16 mins.
    Members of the Green Party of England and Wales have voted to define Zionism as racist. Four of the five Green MPs had voiced public opposition to the motion - which described Zionism as an ideology in support of "an ethnonationalist Jewish state". Also: The government says dropping Sir Keir Starmer's plan to scrap some jury trials will speed up the process of bringing down the backlog in the courts. And the actor Gillian Anderson has asked some avid fans not to repeatedly sit in the front row of her latest theatre show in London's West End, saying it was "so distracting".
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    UAE prosecutors say co-pilot used cockpit axe in plane attack

    03/10/2026 | 16 mins.
    Investigators in the United Arab Emirates say the co-pilot on a plane bound for Israel used an axe, stored in the cockpit for emergencies, as a weapon to attack the aircraft's captain. Also: Spanish riot police and protesters in Valencia clash at a demonstration over housing. And Tennessee's prison commissioner resigns over the botched execution of Christa Pike.
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