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5 News with Dan Walker
Wednesday 23 September 2026 · 17:00 BST · 1h · 8 stories · 15 annotated moments · 50 of 60 min on news stories (83%)
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In Hampshire, hundreds of protesters turned out in Gosport after wrongly believing a small boat carrying migrants was about to arrive there; the dinghy with 51 people on board went to Dover instead. Six people were arrested and police investigated video showing activist Daniel Thomas, known as Danny Tomo, slashing an inflatable in the Channel. Migrants had been rescued after about 36 hours at sea; local officials said Gosport was not prepared to process arrivals, and the government said vigilante action made the job harder while crossings this year were down about 40 per cent to around 17,000. Two RAF pilots were treated for minor injuries after ejecting from a training aircraft on Anglesey in North Wales; the jet crashed into a nearby field, no one on the ground was hurt and the RAF began a full investigation. A woman and three children died in a house fire in Bootle, Merseyside, with a fifth person taken to hospital, and a sentencing hearing began for Canadian Kenneth Law, who admitted 14 counts of aiding suicides in Canada, with 79 UK deaths also linked to him.
Prime Minister Andy Burnham's first meeting with President Trump went relatively well, but Trump called the plan to hand the Chagos Islands to Mauritius terrible; the Defence Secretary said the current deal lacked US support and would have to be revised. Burnham also told the UN about a new information defence centre to counter Russian information manipulation and called for global AI rules, while Trump rejected a globalist AI order. In Scotland, 1,133 people died from drug misuse last year, an 11 per cent rise and the worst rate in Europe; more than half involved cocaine and 22 per cent involved a synthetic opioid. An unexploded World War II bomb found in the water at Falmouth was safely removed and an evacuation cordon lifted, and a study of a Liverpool clinic found children as young as 13 were being referred for a bladder condition caused by continuous ketamine use. Piers Morgan told the programme he would still sue Earl Spencer despite an apology over a false claim in Spencer's memoir linking Morgan to intrusive photographs of Diana, and said he wanted the defamatory lie removed from the book.
After a second air traffic control glitch, Ryanair's Michael O'Leary criticised NATS and called for its chief executive Martin Rolfe to resign, saying he took an annual bonus despite failures; NATS said the outage was caused by a software defect and it was working on a permanent fix. The Home Secretary ordered an urgent review after two small boats reached the Kent coast undetected, with 21 people detained at Samphire Hoe in Dover and another dinghy reaching Folkestone; Shabana Mahmood said this was not acceptable. In world news, at least 11 people were killed in a mass shooting at a house party in Durban, South Africa, three were seriously injured and police were searching for three suspects; Russian drone strikes hit Zaporizhzhia and Kyiv, injuring two in a shopping centre and leaving two dead and 23 wounded in Kyiv before President Zelensky addressed the UN. Six-year-old Lian Yunzhi set a new women's world record for solving Rubik's Cubes, and Jimmy Doherty rescued five Asiatic black bears from South Korea and brought them to a wildlife park in Suffolk after a 5,500-mile journey.
On air
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- 4:15
“We don't need vigilante action in the channel, it doesn't make anyone safer, it makes our job much harder.”
- 8:07
Royal Air Force, RAF
“the RAF have said a full investigation is underway”
- 9:55
Andy Burnham, Prime Minister
“The Kremlin spends around £1.3 billion each year on manipulating”
- 11:10
Donald Trump, President
“I don't support it. I think it's terrible. It was a terrible deal.”
- 20:51
Cornwall Council, Cornwall Council
“Cornwall Council say the device”
- 21:48
Earl Spencer, Princess Diana's brother
“I'm very happy to acknowledge I made a small error”
- 22:10
“Because it's not a small error and I'll explain why.”
- 29:25
Tom Cruise, American film star
“They're magical.”
- 33:45
Michael O'leary, CEO of Ryanair
“Martin Rolfe, the overpaid CEO, says he takes full responsibility”
- 43:46
Jimmy Doherty, TV presenter and farmer
“There's just been a list of so many firsts.”
- 46:49
Dave Stewart, from Eurythmics
“I've been wearing the same hat for a long time, yeah.”
- 1:38
- 1:45
Claim Gosport protests and arrests after migrant boat rescue
A migrant dinghy left the Normandy coast and was being monitored by a French coast guard vessel near the Channel boundary.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 1:45-1:57
- 1:53
Claim Gosport protests and arrests after migrant boat rescue
Police are investigating video footage of damage to a boat in the English Channel.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 1:53-2:06
- 5:10
Claim Gosport protests and arrests after migrant boat rescue
Small boat crossings are down 40 per cent on the same period last year, with 17,000 so far this year.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 5:10-5:22
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- 6:02
Claim RAF training aircraft crashes in Anglesey after pilots eject
Two RAF pilots sustained minor injuries after ejecting from a training aircraft that crashed in Wales.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 6:02-6:11
- 6:15
Charged quote RAF training aircraft crashes in Anglesey after pilots eject
North Wales. Danny Sinha has been looking at this for us yesterday. We showed them in the headlines, the pictures here are remarkable, aren't they? They are absolutely incredible, aren't they? The T2 fighter jet is set off from our area in Anglesey, but you can see it pitches up, it does it once, it goes again, and then
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 6:15-6:18
- 6:57
Charged quote RAF training aircraft crashes in Anglesey after pilots eject
Dan, is equally dramatic. Just take a look at that. That huge fireball when the jet crashes into a nearby field, it is just a miracle, isn't it, that no one on the ground appears to have been hurt. Amazing to capture that all on amateur camera as well. Do we know anything about how the pilots are, what is
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 6:57-7:00
- 7:13
Charged quote RAF training aircraft crashes in Anglesey after pilots eject
going on? Obviously, emergency services were called straightaway now. The two pilots are said to have only suffered minor injuries. There are no reports of any wider damage as well, so just incredible when you see those crash pictures. Also, if you are not familiar with the area, I want to show you exactly where we are talking
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 7:13-7:16
- 7:26
Claim RAF training aircraft crashes in Anglesey after pilots eject
Two RAF pilots sustained minor injuries after ejecting from a training aircraft that crashed in Wales.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 7:26-7:34
- 7:46
Charged quote RAF training aircraft crashes in Anglesey after pilots eject
between 2010 and 2013. So he himself will be very familiar with this area. When you watch that footage again, Danny, it is actually amazing, isn't it, that there hasn't been more damage when you see the size of that fireball as well. Yeah, and I think when the pilots are able to watch this back, I'm sure
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 7:46-7:48
- 7:54
Charged quote RAF training aircraft crashes in Anglesey after pilots eject
when you see the size of that fireball as well. Yeah, and I think when the pilots are able to watch this back, I'm sure they will be counting their lucky stars, because here they are landing safely in their parachutes, and just remarkable as well that no one, I mean, you can imagine, there could have
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 7:54-7:58
- 8:07
Claim RAF training aircraft crashes in Anglesey after pilots eject
An investigation into the incident was under way, according to the Defence Secretary.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 8:07-8:14
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- 33:45
Claim Ryanair CEO calls for NATS boss Martin Rolfe to resign over ATC outages
Ryanair CEO Michael O'Leary urged NATS chief Martin Rolfe to resign.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 33:45-33:51
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- 43:08
Claim Five rescued moon bears settle into Suffolk wildlife park after 5,500-mile journey
Bears were rescued from a South Korean farm that used them for bile extraction for traditional medicine.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 43:08-43:18
- 44:19
Claim Five rescued moon bears settle into Suffolk wildlife park after 5,500-mile journey
South Korea outlawed the bile farming industry at the start of January.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 44:19-44:22
- 44:37
Claim Five rescued moon bears settle into Suffolk wildlife park after 5,500-mile journey
Bears were rescued from a South Korean farm that used them for bile extraction for traditional medicine.
Channel 5, 5 News with Dan Walker, 23 September 2026, 44:37-44:47
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