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Five men arrested on suspicion of terror offences near RAF Fairford were released on police bail but remain under investigation, with detectives examining the possibility that proxies acting for a foreign state were involved. The men, UK nationals in their 20s who live in London, were detained under the Explosives Act and on suspicion of preparing a terrorist act. The Gloucestershire base is used by the US military and has been used in recent strikes on Iran; Tehran rejected any involvement, while Donald Trump said he would not have released the men. A resident described seeing suspicious vans, calling 101 and 999, before armed police arrived; residents were evacuated and later allowed to return, although a police cordon remained.

The RAC said diesel had reached an all-time high of £1.99 a litre, driven by disruptions linked to the war in Iran and Ukrainian strikes on Russian oil facilities. Donald Trump said he was very seriously considering a US diesel export ban, which could affect the UK, which imports about a third of its supplies from the US; the Chancellor said the government was talking to the US and had its own stocks. At the Labour Party conference, the Chancellor said welfare reform was a moral duty and more than an economic necessity, announcing more apprenticeships in England, a restart of the Union Learning Fund and £6 billion of contracts for British shipyards. Ukraine came under sustained Russian drone attacks, with six deaths in Dnipro and others killed in Sumy and Kyiv, where the National Academy of Science was hit. A ten-year-old and two women died attempting to cross the Channel in a dinghy carrying 105 people, and floods and landslides in South East Asia killed at least 81 people in India's Uttar Pradesh and swept away a government building in Nepal. In Northern Ireland, uncertainty remained over whether a unionist parade would be allowed along the Garvaghy Road in Portadown after protesters blocked it.

Manchester City's chief executive told a meeting of European club leaders that the club would fight the Premier League's ruling that it breached financial rules, a process he indicated could take more time. SpaceX's Starship, the largest spacecraft ever built, reached orbit and deployed satellites before the mission was cut short after an engine failure and splashed down in the Pacific. An 11-year-old British girl, Bodhana Sivanandan, became the youngest woman grandmaster ever after winning eight of 11 matches for England in Uzbekistan.