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BBC One — BBC News and Weather
Thursday 13 August 2026 · 22:00 BST · 30m · 7 stories · 14 annotated moments · 25 of 30 min on news stories (83%)
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A train derailed in East Sussex on Thursday afternoon, with around 150 passengers on board; two were seriously injured and three carriages ended on their sides. Network Rail and the Rail Accident Investigation Branch began inquiries, and the line between Lewes and Haywards Heath was expected to close for some time. Elsewhere, multiple fires broke out across the West Midlands, including in Stourbridge, where a child and three firefighters were taken to hospital, as temperatures peaked above 38 degrees Celsius on the hottest day of the year. An amber extreme heat warning was expanded, and England's A&E departments faced record demand. In Europe, a Swiss mountain collapse and thawing permafrost highlighted the heatwave's effects, while in the UK, Wisley Common had gone 57 days without rain. A 102-year-old man died after an alleged assault at a pub in South Wales, and police arrested a 56-year-old man. In the Clacton by-election, triggered by Nigel Farage's resignation, a record 34 candidates stood, with counting underway.
Israeli military bulldozers flattened illegal settler outposts in the occupied West Bank village of Khuzra, but settlers returned and continued a siege on two Palestinian families; Israeli forces also raided the village and occupied several homes. Record numbers of 18-year-olds secured their first-choice university places after A-level and other results, though the regional gap in top grades reached its largest since 2010. A Romanian couple were jailed for 17 years each for spiking drinks to rob men, killing two. The Metropolitan Police Commissioner said the rule of law was in a precarious state after the sentencing of Simon Levy. Nobel Peace Prize winner Dmitry Muratov told the BBC that Russia could never claim victory in Ukraine, as he criticised the Kremlin while in Moscow. In the West, Perrows Bridge in Bristol suffered a major fault and was left hanging over water, and a gravestone was laid for a German airman shot down over Somerset in 1940.
- 2:52 Story begins Passenger train derails near Lewes in Sussex
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Charged quote Wildfires break out across West Midlands and Warwickshire
Katie Austin reporting for us there. Now, multiple fires have been burning across the West Midlands, forcing some people to flee after flames ripped through their homes on the hottest day of the year. The West Midlands Fire Service says it's facing extreme levels of demand in the market town of Stourbridge,
BBC ONE West, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 8:24-8:27
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Charged quote Wildfires break out across West Midlands and Warwickshire
There's also an amber heat health alert for the whole of England until 9pm tomorrow. Well, Navtas Johal has the very latest on the fires in Stourbridge. The images are horrifying. West Midlands Fire Service says there are multiple houses on fire in Stourbridge. It initially described this as an extensive grass fire near Stourbridge Golf Course,
BBC ONE West, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 8:59-9:01
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Claim Wildfires break out across West Midlands and Warwickshire
A fire in Stourbridge injured a child and three firefighters and was tackled by about 100 firefighters.
BBC ONE WestHD, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 9:08-9:15
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Claim Wildfires break out across West Midlands and Warwickshire
A fire in Stourbridge injured a child and three firefighters and was tackled by about 100 firefighters.
BBC ONE WestHD, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 9:15-9:26
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Charged quote Wildfires break out across West Midlands and Warwickshire
About 100 firefighters have been tackling it, with flames spreading across roads in some places. The fire service says this blaze has several points of origin. Residents in the area have been left terrified for their homes. I was out with a hosepipe trying to damp the fence down, but it didn't make any difference.
BBC ONE West, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 9:27-9:30
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Claim Wildfires break out across West Midlands and Warwickshire
A fire in Stourbridge injured a child and three firefighters and was tackled by about 100 firefighters.
BBC ONE WestHD, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 9:59-10:05
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Contested quote Wildfires break out across West Midlands and Warwickshire
in a very, very natural way. And that makes nature resilient in the future. Extreme heat, wildfires, hosepipe bans, the impacts of our changing climate have rarely been so stark here in the UK. We know what needs to be done. The question now is whether the world's response can match the speed and scale of the changes we're seeing.
BBC ONE West, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 14:26-14:31
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Contested quote Israeli forces clash with settlers over Palestinian families
Thank you. Harry Farley, by the sea, in Clacton. The Israeli military has been carrying out an operation in a village in the occupied West Bank to try to deal with a blockade imposed by Israeli settlers on two Palestinian families. Now, the West Bank is Palestinian territory, but currently under Israeli military occupation,
BBC ONE West, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 16:44-16:54
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Charged quote Israeli forces clash with settlers over Palestinian families
John Donison has spent the day in Khuzra and sent us this report. Overnight, Israeli military bulldozers moved in. They flattened the illegal encampments known as outposts, from which Jewish settlers have been laying siege to two Palestinian families for five days. But within a few hours, the settlers were back, the siege still on.
BBC ONE West, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 17:32-17:35
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Charged quote Israeli forces clash with settlers over Palestinian families
Overnight, Israeli military bulldozers moved in. They flattened the illegal encampments known as outposts, from which Jewish settlers have been laying siege to two Palestinian families for five days. But within a few hours, the settlers were back, the siege still on. One of the houses is owned by a Palestinian American,
BBC ONE West, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 17:35-17:41
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Charged quote Israeli forces clash with settlers over Palestinian families
But within a few hours, the settlers were back, the siege still on. One of the houses is owned by a Palestinian American, Lue Aburida, who lives in the States. His family are surrounded and trapped inside. As of now, my brothers and other families are scrambling, not sure what's going on. What's really mattered to everybody and to me is how come the settlers
BBC ONE West, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 17:56-17:59
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Charged quote Israeli forces clash with settlers over Palestinian families
There are hundreds of IDF soldiers in the area. And at the same time, Israeli forces raided the main village of Khuzra and took over around a dozen Palestinian houses, putting their owners out on the streets. It's now about 10 hours since the Israeli forces raided the village of Khuzra. You can see it's very, very quiet.
BBC ONE West, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 18:28-18:34
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Charged quote Israeli forces clash with settlers over Palestinian families
They occupied these houses up on the hillside behind me and told the families to leave. Now some of the families have been allowed to go back, but the soldiers are still inside others and we've seen them up on the rooftops. We met Kahir Odeh, one of those kicked out. He said the Israeli military was targeting not the settlers, but Palestinians who they should have been protecting.
BBC ONE West, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 18:58-19:01
- 19:58 Story begins A-level top grades rise for third consecutive year
- 25:05 Story begins Muratov says Putin cannot claim victory in Ukraine
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Contested quote Muratov says Putin cannot claim victory in Ukraine
Because what has been going on for almost five years, no matter how it ends, can no longer be considered a victory. It can be a victory when two Slavic nations have ripped a million people to shreds, or more than a million. It seems to me that the situation with Ukraine now is this. You can destroy it, but you cannot conquer it.
BBC ONE West, BBC News and Weather, 13 August 2026, 27:08-27:15
- 29:32 Story begins Amy Hunt wins European 200m gold for sprint double
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