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5 News with Dan Walker
Monday 17 August 2026 · 17:00 BST · 1h · 9 stories · 15 annotated moments · 34 of 60 min on news stories (57%)
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The broadcast opens with coverage of ongoing wildfires in Wales, where the army has been deployed to help fight 14 blazes, and a hosepipe ban affecting more than a million people has been announced. In Stourbridge, families are returning to homes after wildfires, though 19 homes were destroyed and the Housing Secretary visited to discuss better responses. Other news includes a murder investigation in West Yorkshire after a fatal dog bite, a court appearance by Simon Levy, and a motorway crash in Ireland that killed five teenagers, with police investigating a possible social media craze. The death of former Cambridge professor Jason Arday has prompted calls for a public inquiry into media coverage, and the prime minister reportedly exchanged messages with someone posing as a White House official. Reform UK announced plans to exclude foreign nationals from most benefits, Princess Eugenie named her daughter, and a petition to block early release of PC Harper's killers has gained over a million signatures.
The programme also covered the funeral of singer Bonnie Tyler in Swansea, with fans lining the streets. Actress Hayden Panettiere's death at 36 was reported, with tributes from her family. British athletes celebrated a gold rush at the European Athletics Championships, including Georgia Hunter-Bell's 1500m win, and she discussed her season. International stories included a Singapore noodle bar incident where a man was attacked for patting a child, Hawaii dealing with storm fallout, and a record price for Ferrari's first electric car. Finally, the cast of the Mousetrap discussed its upcoming tour.
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Charged quote Army deployed to fight wildfires as UK heatwave continues
Hello, welcome to the programme. It says something about the scale of a problem when the army is drafted in, and more than 200 soldiers have been helping to stamp out fires that have been rampaging towards homes in Wales. Temperatures are cooling across the UK, but the tinderbox conditions remain. And a reminder of the continuing drought conditions
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 1:32-1:39
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Charged quote Wessex Water announces first hosepipe ban in 50 years
and more than 200 soldiers have been helping to stamp out fires that have been rampaging towards homes in Wales. Temperatures are cooling across the UK, but the tinderbox conditions remain. And a reminder of the continuing drought conditions came with the announcement of a fresh hosepipe ban affecting more than a million people.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 1:39-1:44
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Charged quote Wessex Water announces first hosepipe ban in 50 years
And as you say, the army are also at work, specifically the Queen's own Gurkha Logistic Regiment, their involvement a mark of just how much of a challenge this is. This is the backbreaking work that stops wildfires. In the Welsh valleys, north of Newport, 200 Gurkhas have been deployed. They're digging firebreaks across Heathland
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 2:49-2:53
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Charged quote Wessex Water announces first hosepipe ban in 50 years
The darker the blue, the bigger the downpours. It won't help customers of Wessex Water, which becomes the latest supplier to impose a hosepipe ban. And as our long hot summer draws to a close, the big question remains, is the UK ready for year after year of this? Experts have long warned, we are not investing enough in adapting.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 3:58-4:06
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Charged quote Army deployed to fight wildfires as UK heatwave continues
And as our long hot summer draws to a close, the big question remains, is the UK ready for year after year of this? Experts have long warned, we are not investing enough in adapting. The estimate of the costs that we think are needed to address the really key issues of drought, heat and flooding are about 11 billion pounds a year.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 4:06-4:10
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Charged quote Wessex Water announces first hosepipe ban in 50 years
And as our long hot summer draws to a close, the big question remains, is the UK ready for year after year of this? Experts have long warned, we are not investing enough in adapting. The estimate of the costs that we think are needed to address the really key issues of drought, heat and flooding are about 11 billion pounds a year.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 4:06-4:10
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Charged quote Army deployed to fight wildfires as UK heatwave continues
onto a North Wales mountainside scorched by wildfires underlines the dilemma Andy Burnham now faces. It won't be so easy to condemn the consequences of climate change if it appears his government can also be accused of supporting the fossil fuels that cause it. Catherine Jones, 5 News. To those devastating fires in Stourbridge now,
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 5:07-5:16
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Charged quote Wessex Water announces first hosepipe ban in 50 years
onto a North Wales mountainside scorched by wildfires underlines the dilemma Andy Burnham now faces. It won't be so easy to condemn the consequences of climate change if it appears his government can also be accused of supporting the fossil fuels that cause it. Catherine Jones, 5 News. To those devastating fires in Stourbridge now,
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 5:07-5:16
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Charged quote Wessex Water announces first hosepipe ban in 50 years
Brunswick Gate in Stourbridge, until a few days ago, one of the smartest areas in the town, but Thursday's wildfires have changed all that. Home after home, memory after memory, reduced to ash and rubble. Everything gone. In all, 19 homes here have been completely destroyed by the fires, 18 more badly damaged.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 5:52-5:56
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Charged quote Wessex Water announces first hosepipe ban in 50 years
by the fires, 18 more badly damaged. Among them, this house on Racecourse Lane, home to Richard and Roseanne Vinton and their two young children. This was the terrifying scene on Thursday filmed on a doorbell camera in their back garden as Roseanne and the children fled. My wife, I didn't know what was going on.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 6:13-6:15
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Charged quote Wessex Water announces first hosepipe ban in 50 years
trying not to get upset and what have you, but the emotions have come out since. We're really incredibly fortunate to come back to a home and there are lots of people that have lost everything and it's heartbreaking. As temperatures cool this week and Stourbridge rebuilds, the region's fire services
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 7:49-7:57
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Contested quote GB News investigation reveals anti-Farage links in standards committee
when allegations against Professor Arday were published. Over the next 11 days, UK newspapers published 61 articles. On the 5th of August, Cambridge University said it was reopening the plagiarism investigation after new information. Later that day, Jason Arday resigned, saying he'd reached his absolute limit.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 12:54-13:01
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Contested quote GB News investigation reveals anti-Farage links in standards committee
is now at the centre of calls for a public inquiry. A letter organised by the Good Law Project has now been signed by more than 80,000 people, including politicians and public figures. We think that the coverage was racist from inception. We think the coverage was obscene in its intensity and its nature. Newspapers were being warned
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 13:38-13:43
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Charged quote GB News investigation reveals anti-Farage links in standards committee
has now been signed by more than 80,000 people, including politicians and public figures. We think that the coverage was racist from inception. We think the coverage was obscene in its intensity and its nature. Newspapers were being warned about how terrible his mental health was. It didn't cause them to back off.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 13:44-13:50
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Claim Bonnie Tyler funeral: Swansea says final goodbye to singer
A funeral and remembrance service for Bonnie Tyler took place in Swansea.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 17 August 2026, 21:43-21:50
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