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Verified Live
Monday 28 September 2026 · 15:00 BST · 30m · 5 stories · 14 annotated moments · 30 of 30 min on news stories (99%)
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Counter-terror police said five men arrested early on Sunday near RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire are UK nationals and London residents aged between 23 and 25, held on suspicion of offences under the Explosives Act and preparing a terrorist act. Investigators said they were pursuing multiple new lines of inquiry into the incident, which involved three parked vans or lorries near the UK-US airbase, a bomb disposal robot, a resident's 999 call after she saw a large group of hooded and masked men, and the evacuation of more than 85 homes. Iran categorically denied involvement, President Trump said the arrested men had been under view and were looking to do big damage to what he described as our fort, and Defence Secretary Wes Streeting thanked the member of the public but said she had only a partial picture.
In Kyiv, a Russian drone hit Ukraine's National Academy of Sciences, killing at least one person and setting the building on fire, with staff trying to escape and a rescue operation under way; Mayor Vitali Klitschko said Kyiv is now Russia's main target, and another strike less than two hours later hit a medical school as emergency services were stretched. Diesel prices reached an all-time high close to two pounds a litre, an increase of almost 40% since the US war with Iran began in February, as Chancellor John Healey gave his first Labour Conference speech, promising a new age of industrialisation, more apprenticeships, and adherence to fiscal rules while warning about the cost of national debt.
Fighting intensified in Yemen around Taiz as Iranian-backed Houthi fighters advanced after capturing Mokha and the Bab al-Mandeb strait, with government forces backed by a Saudi-led coalition trying to halt them, more than 100,000 people displaced, and a hospital receiving 24 casualties in 24 hours, including a 12-year-old girl hit by shrapnel. Later, Prime Minister Andy Burnham was reported to be chairing a COBRA meeting that afternoon after the RAF Fairford events, while police confirmed the five men were UK nationals in their 20s living in London and said they were aware of speculation about motivation and geopolitical questions; residents near the base were told it would be at least another two days before they could return home.
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- 4:33
Wes Streeting, Defence Secretary
“the Defence Secretary, Wes Streeting, said the investigation was well under way.”
- 7:06
Roz Savage, South Cotswolds Liberal Democrat MP
“So many questions. It does seem that there is this real,”
- 9:42
Chris Phillips, former head of the UK National Counterterrorism Security Office
“Well, we're not very much further forward, are we really?”
- 16:51
John Healey, Chancellor
“And I tell you these levels of debt, an assault on our common sense, they're an affront to our”
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- 7:51
Contested quote Major incident near RAF Fairford after explosives arrests
after this. Because for local residents to be put under this level of threat, I mean, just imagine what could have happened had there not been this alert to these three vans full of explosives. It just doesn't bear thinking about. And the well-being of my constituents is absolutely my top priority. This base obviously has had a lot of attention in the last few months since the Iran
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 7:51-7:56
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Claim Russian drone strikes kill civilians in Dnipro, Sumy and Kyiv
A fresh wave of Russian drone attacks hit Kyiv, including strikes on the National Academy of Sciences and a medical school less than two hours later.
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 12:27-13:51
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Claim Russian drone strikes kill civilians in Dnipro, Sumy and Kyiv
A fresh wave of Russian drone attacks hit Kyiv, including strikes on the National Academy of Sciences and a medical school less than two hours later.
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 13:40-13:51
- 14:42
Claim Russian drone strikes kill civilians in Dnipro, Sumy and Kyiv
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the attack was on all Ukrainians and Kyiv is now Russia's main target.
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 14:42-14:55
- 14:42
Claim Russian drone strikes kill civilians in Dnipro, Sumy and Kyiv
Kyiv Mayor Vitali Klitschko said the attack was on all Ukrainians and Kyiv is now Russia's main target.
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 14:42-14:55
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Claim Russian drone strikes kill civilians in Dnipro, Sumy and Kyiv
A fresh wave of Russian drone attacks hit Kyiv, including strikes on the National Academy of Sciences and a medical school less than two hours later.
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 15:02-15:19
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Claim Russian drone strikes kill civilians in Dnipro, Sumy and Kyiv
A fresh wave of Russian drone attacks hit Kyiv, including strikes on the National Academy of Sciences and a medical school less than two hours later.
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 15:02-15:19
- 15:42
Claim Diesel prices near £2 prompt budget action calls
UK diesel prices have reached or surpassed levels recorded after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 15:42-16:00
- 15:48 Story begins Diesel prices near £2 prompt budget action calls
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Claim Diesel prices near £2 prompt budget action calls
Diesel prices had increased by 40% since hostilities began between the US, Israel and Iran.
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 15:48-16:00
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Claim Diesel prices near £2 prompt budget action calls
John Healey delivered his first Labour Conference speech as Chancellor one month before his first budget.
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 15:54-16:12
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Charged quote Diesel prices near £2 prompt budget action calls
social care, on policing our streets, on controlling our borders, on defending our country. And I tell you these levels of debt, an assault on our common sense, they're an affront to our values and that's why the Prime Minister and I are in lockstep that we will meet the fiscal rules, that we will maintain control of Britain's finances. Well that was John Healey. With me
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 16:51-17:04
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Claim Diesel prices near £2 prompt budget action calls
UK diesel prices have reached or surpassed levels recorded after Russia's 2022 invasion of Ukraine.
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 17:35-17:43
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Claim Diesel prices near £2 prompt budget action calls
The Iran war caused severe disruption to wholesale oil production and transportation over the past seven months.
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 17:54-18:04
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Claim Diesel prices near £2 prompt budget action calls
The UK imports around half to 60% of its diesel, up from 16% in 2000, with 35% of imports from the US, as the number of refineries fell from 18 in the 1970s to four.
BBC News, Verified Live, 28 September 2026, 18:04-18:13
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