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Friday 9 October 2026 · 06:00 BST · 30m · 6 stories · 15 annotated moments · 27 of 30 min on news stories (89%)
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Labour won the Holborn and St Pancras by-election, with Sagal Abdiwali elected after receiving 12,292 votes. Green Party leader Zack Polanski came second with 8,928 votes and the Conservatives third with 1,922. The contest was triggered by the resignation of former Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Labour's vote share fell compared with the general election two years ago, and there were questions about the party's popularity, though the result was seen as evidence that some voters had returned since Andy Burnham became Prime Minister. The Greens conceded before 2.30am, and there were questions for Polanski over his leadership, a recent dip in polls, and a party conference motion declaring Zionism a form of racism; he said he had grown up in a Zionist household and now believed the treatment of Palestinians was racist, and later said the Greens had more than tripled their vote share.
An official review warned of a risk that people in England could be over-diagnosed with ADHD and autism and called for radical reform, including tougher regulation of private assessment firms and national standards. It said waiting lists should not be first-come, first-served and that people with severe and complex needs should be prioritised; demand had grown and waiting lists had become ten times bigger in over five years, while data was too patchy to say whether too many people were being diagnosed. The Prime Minister pledged to make dementia research a national priority and announced a £48 million commercial partnership to accelerate the search for a cure and make it easier to find trial participants; Andy Burnham's father, Roy, died last month after suffering from Alzheimer's. Police Scotland said 45 serving officers were suspended over allegations of violence against women and girls, with a review under way after a BBC investigation revealed an officer who took his own life in May was a serial rapist. Protests took place in New York after ICE agents shot a man who was with a five-year-old child; the man, described by the Department of Homeland Security as an illegal alien, was treated in hospital and city officials including the mayor condemned the shooting. US Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth said the execution of former US Army major Nidal Hasan would be live-streamed, with Hasan to be shot by firing squad for the 2009 murders of 13 unarmed US soldiers at Fort Hood; the report noted no public execution had happened before in the modern era United States. The lawyer of Christa Pike, who survived a failed lethal injection, said her health had improved profoundly over three days; she was reportedly walking with assistance, but it could take months to establish any cognitive damage. Adidas began a legal case in Sydney against Australian brand White Fox over a four-stripe design it says is deceptively similar to its logo; White Fox lawyers said the design was decorative, not a trademark, and the case is expected back before a judge later this year.
Russia's intensified attacks on Ukraine were reported to be making life in Kyiv more dangerous, and ahead of a bitterly cold winter some residents were choosing to leave the capital for the countryside or abroad. The bulletin followed two families, including Maria and her children, who were leaving for Egypt via Vienna, and Olena, who bought a house a couple of hours outside Kyiv; polls indicated as many as 40% of people in Ukrainian cities were thinking of leaving if the situation worsened. In a newspaper review, the Times reported that the UK's most senior military officer, Air Chief Marshal Sir Richard Knighton, had said bases housing American troops were secure after arrests at two UK air bases, and the Sun highlighted a police admission that warrants used to search Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's homes in February were unlawful. The bulletin also reported that almost 40,000 tonnes of rubbish had been removed from the Hoad's Wood illegal waste site in Kent at a cost of £15 million, with the Environment Agency extending a restriction order and landscaping the ancient woodland to deter further dumping; no one had yet been prosecuted.
- 2:12 Story begins Labour wins Holborn and St Pancras by-election
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Claim Kyiv residents leave as Russian attacks intensify before winter
Russia intensified attacks on Kyiv, and the city has faced day and night attacks since August.
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 18:44-18:51
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Claim Kyiv residents leave as Russian attacks intensify before winter
Russia intensified attacks on Kyiv, and the city has faced day and night attacks since August.
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 19:04-19:17
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Claim Kyiv residents leave as Russian attacks intensify before winter
Russia intensified attacks on Kyiv, and the city has faced day and night attacks since August.
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 19:04-19:17
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Charged quote Kyiv residents leave as Russian attacks intensify before winter
has been to meet two families who have decided it's safer for them to leave. Ukraine's capital is under attack by day and night. It's been going on since August. The people here are used to danger but this is relentless, exhausting. Maria has had enough. She's getting ready to leave. I don't feel safety in Ukraine in any way.
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 19:17-19:23
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Charged quote Kyiv residents leave as Russian attacks intensify before winter
who have decided it's safer for them to leave. Ukraine's capital is under attack by day and night. It's been going on since August. The people here are used to danger but this is relentless, exhausting. Maria has had enough. She's getting ready to leave. I don't feel safety in Ukraine in any way. I can't rest.
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 19:19-19:23
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Charged quote Kyiv residents leave as Russian attacks intensify before winter
The people here are used to danger but this is relentless, exhausting. Maria has had enough. She's getting ready to leave. I don't feel safety in Ukraine in any way. I can't rest. Maria's children, Artur and Kira, were born after Russia's full-scale invasion in 2022. The war is all they've ever known.
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 19:26-19:30
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Charged quote Kyiv residents leave as Russian attacks intensify before winter
Then I thought that I would be the last person who will leave Ukraine because why, how? What is the reason? But life in Kyiv in the past year has given people plenty of reasons. Last winter was brutal. Russia's attacks on the power grid left people without heat and light. In these conditions we couldn't survive. So back then I started thinking
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 20:00-20:02
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Charged quote Kyiv residents leave as Russian attacks intensify before winter
has given people plenty of reasons. Last winter was brutal. Russia's attacks on the power grid left people without heat and light. In these conditions we couldn't survive. So back then I started thinking I'm not going through another winter like this. When did you decide we're not going to do that again?
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 20:09-20:12
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Charged quote Kyiv residents leave as Russian attacks intensify before winter
I decided that the better option will be a little village without any factories, any storages and any railway stations. Everything that can be Russia's target. Polls show that as many as 40% of people living in Ukraine's cities are thinking of leaving if the situation gets worse. It's hard to know how many people will actually do it.
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 21:04-21:09
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Claim Kyiv residents leave as Russian attacks intensify before winter
Polling suggested that up to 40% of people in Ukrainian cities were considering leaving if conditions worsened.
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 21:09-21:16
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Claim Kyiv residents leave as Russian attacks intensify before winter
Polling suggested that up to 40% of people in Ukrainian cities were considering leaving if conditions worsened.
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 21:09-21:16
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Charged quote Hoad's Wood illegal waste site cleared at £15m taxpayer cost
This became a national example of the scale of waste crime. Almost 40,000 tonnes of processed waste that should have gone to landfill was dumped by criminals in this ancient woodland in Kent in 2023. Now look at it. It's taken a year to clear it and cost taxpayers £15 million. You had processed landfill waste
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 23:44-23:45
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Charged quote Hoad's Wood illegal waste site cleared at £15m taxpayer cost
It's taken a year to clear it and cost taxpayers £15 million. You had processed landfill waste that had that real distinctive rotten egg smell to it but the rubbish was literally 20 feet, 25 feet high in some places. This local man wants to remain anonymous as he fears reprisals from the criminals involved.
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 23:53-23:56
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Charged quote Hoad's Wood illegal waste site cleared at £15m taxpayer cost
How does it feel to see the site like this? It's bittersweet. We are delighted that our campaign worked but this is irreparable damage that was entirely avoidable. How concerned are you that dumping could happen here again? A very open site, as you can see here, is going to be catnip to waste criminals from here on in
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 24:21-24:25
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Charged quote Hoad's Wood illegal waste site cleared at £15m taxpayer cost
but this is irreparable damage that was entirely avoidable. How concerned are you that dumping could happen here again? A very open site, as you can see here, is going to be catnip to waste criminals from here on in and also just common garden fly-tippers. Our biggest fear now is people are going to be able to access this site
BBC News, 9 October 2026, 24:31-24:34
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