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BBC News and Weather
Friday 2 October 2026 · 22:00 BST · 30m · 9 stories · 15 annotated moments · 27 of 30 min on news stories (91%)
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The broadcast led with the news that Joshua Kerry, 28, from Rotherham, who is already accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe, had also been charged with a terror offence. Counter-terrorism police said he faced one count of preparation of terrorist acts relating to alleged activity between May 2024 and July 2026, and that the targets included Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. Ann Widdecombe, a former Conservative minister and Reform UK spokeswoman, was murdered at her home on Dartmoor in July. The CPS said there was sufficient evidence to prosecute, the Home Secretary said the new charges were extremely concerning, and Kerry was due in court next Wednesday. A correspondent said the charge followed a re-examination of evidence, including CCTV, after an incident described as an attempted burglary at Nigel Farage's home in April 2025, and that a counter-terrorism policing staff member had been referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct. Two Iranian nationals, Rahman Salehi, 35, and Salam Ahmad-Yam, 36, were also charged with terror offences over an alleged plot targeting Manchester's Jewish community. Police said they were accused of trying to acquire materials for an improvised explosive device and of researching potential targets, and the Home Secretary said they had arrived in the UK on small boats, one in 2020 and the other in 2023. The alleged plot came on the eve of Yom Kippur and the first anniversary of the Heaton Park synagogue attack in Manchester, and both men were due in court in London the next day.
Diesel prices reached an all-time UK high of £2 a litre, with the G7 agreeing to release up to 100 million barrels of oil and diesel reserves and the US cancelling any export ban. In the US, lawyers for convicted murderer Christa Pike, 50, who was sentenced to death for killing teenager Colleen Slemmer 30 years ago, said she was unconscious and on a ventilator after two lethal injections in Tennessee. Manchester City confirmed it was appealing against a ruling that it breached Premier League financial regulations, after an independent commission found it had used sham sponsorship agreements to artificially inflate revenue; the club denies wrongdoing. In France, school protests over poor facilities and teacher shortages led to scores of injuries, more than 500 schools closing and fires damaging at least three colleges in Paris, with the education minister saying the protests had been taken hostage by a violent minority. A man who deliberately blew up a camera checking higher-polluting vehicles in south-east London, Kevin Rees, 63, was jailed for 15 years; police said his homemade device damaged cars and property up to 100 metres away and the judge said the offence had a terrorism connection. The Indian pilot stabbed by his co-pilot on a Flydubai flight to Israel, Captain Smeet Machar, described fighting to open the cockpit door as the plane carried 170 passengers; the attacker had undergone Islamist radicalisation and intended to crash the plane, according to the report, and Israel's prime minister said the passengers and crew prevented a disaster on the scale of 9-11.
New York's Attorney General is to investigate Cornell University over its handling of an alleged gang rape two years ago, after the alleged victim filed a civil lawsuit and no criminal charges were brought; the governor appointed a special prosecutor and Cornell said it was committed to an independent external review. At the Green Party conference in Brighton, leader in England and Wales Zack Polanski called for a three-year cap on private rent rises and a national fair rents guarantee, while a row continued over a motion about the Middle East and Zionism. Plaid Cymru's annual conference in Llandudno heard Welsh First Minister Rhun ap Iorwerth call on Andy Burnham to deliver a new deal for Wales, with a letter to the Prime Minister requesting the transfer of powers over policing, justice, rail and the Crown Estate from Westminster to Cardiff. Work began on a £66 million facelift of the Palm House at Kew Gardens, with 1,300 tropical plants and trees being moved and every pane of glass in the Victorian structure set to be removed.
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Claim Joshua Kerry charged with terrorism and Ann Widdecombe murder
Joshua Kerry, already accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe, has also been charged over alleged preparation of terrorist acts, with the charge covering late May 2024 to 8 July this year and alleging multiple acts including against Nigel Farage.
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 1:37-1:51
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Claim Joshua Kerry charged with terrorism and Ann Widdecombe murder
Joshua Kerry, already accused of murdering Ann Widdecombe, has also been charged over alleged preparation of terrorist acts, with the charge covering late May 2024 to 8 July this year and alleging multiple acts including against Nigel Farage.
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 1:37-1:51
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Charged quote Joshua Kerry charged with terrorism and Ann Widdecombe murder
Nigel Farage has long complained the authorities didn't take his security seriously enough. I have been physically the most attacked and endangered politician in Britain for now well over a decade. At every stage during that time, when I've asked the state to help and support, most times they point blank refused.
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 2:43-2:50
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Charged quote Joshua Kerry charged with terrorism and Ann Widdecombe murder
I have been physically the most attacked and endangered politician in Britain for now well over a decade. At every stage during that time, when I've asked the state to help and support, most times they point blank refused. I know, because of the division in politics, that I will need protection until the day that I die.
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 2:50-2:57
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Charged quote Joshua Kerry charged with terrorism and Ann Widdecombe murder
At every stage during that time, when I've asked the state to help and support, most times they point blank refused. I know, because of the division in politics, that I will need protection until the day that I die. Tonight, a Reform spokesman said this is exactly why Nigel needed £5 million to protect his security for life.
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 2:58-3:05
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Charged quote Joshua Kerry charged with terrorism and Ann Widdecombe murder
At every stage during that time, when I've asked the state to help and support, most times they point blank refused. I know, because of the division in politics, that I will need protection until the day that I die. Tonight, a Reform spokesman said this is exactly why Nigel needed £5 million to protect his security for life. Home Secretary Shabana Mahmood has tweeted,
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 3:05-3:12
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Charged quote Joshua Kerry charged with terrorism and Ann Widdecombe murder
I know the new charges made today will be extremely concerning. My profound sympathies are with Nigel Farage and his family. Let no one make any mistake, an attack on anyone in politics is an attack on us all. Monitoring and managing the security of MPs has become an increasing focus for the police in recent years,
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 3:22-3:28
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Claim Joshua Kerry charged with terrorism and Ann Widdecombe murder
In August, counter-terrorism police reopened a year-long investigation into an alleged firebomb attack at Nigel Farage's home in south London.
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 4:24-4:39
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Claim Joshua Kerry charged with terrorism and Ann Widdecombe murder
After evidence was re-examined following Ann Widdecombe's death, a counter-terrorism policing staff member was referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 4:40-4:51
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Claim Joshua Kerry charged with terrorism and Ann Widdecombe murder
After evidence was re-examined following Ann Widdecombe's death, a counter-terrorism policing staff member was referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct.
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 4:44-4:51
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Charged quote Joshua Kerry charged with terrorism and Ann Widdecombe murder
And when that evidence was re-examined following Ann Widdecombe's death, a member of the counter-terrorism policing staff was referred to the Independent Office for Police Conduct and it raises the possibility that Ann Widdecombe's murder could have been prevented. Certainly the man who's accused of her murder, who is due to appear in court on Friday,
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 4:51-4:56
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Claim Two men arrested over Manchester Jewish community terror plot
Two men were charged with preparing acts of terrorism or assisting someone to prepare acts of terrorism.
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 5:21-5:28
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Claim Two men arrested over Manchester Jewish community terror plot
Two men were charged with preparing acts of terrorism or assisting someone to prepare acts of terrorism.
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 5:48-6:00
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Claim Two men arrested over Manchester Jewish community terror plot
The two men were reported to have arrived in the UK by small boat in 2020 and 2023; one had been granted asylum and the other was claiming asylum, and the Home Secretary said they were Iranian nationals.
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 6:06-6:21
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Claim Two men arrested over Manchester Jewish community terror plot
Police alleged the men tried to acquire materials for an improvised explosive device and carried out reconnaissance on potential targets.
BBC One, BBC News and Weather, 2 October 2026, 6:21-6:34
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