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Zack Polanski said he would remain leader of the Green Party in England and Wales after Labour held Holborn and St Pancras with Sehgal Abduwali, following a party motion that recognised Zionism as a form of racism and called for a single democratic Palestinian state in all historic Palestine; Polanski did not attend the vote. The chair of the Jewish Greens said he should step down, either by apologising and acknowledging inaccuracy or resigning, and former Green co-leaders spoke of toxicity and a fight for the party's soul. The King paid a £1.5 million repair bill for Andrew Mountbatten Windsor's former home, Royal Lodge, after the former prince moved out in February before the end of his lease following further revelations about his relationship with the late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein; Mountbatten Windsor has consistently denied wrongdoing. The Crown Estate said the total repair bill was £1.8 million, reduced by £300,000 for surrendering the lease, and the King paid from private income, with repayment a private matter. The US Defense Secretary, Pete Hegseth, announced that the execution of Nidal Hasan, convicted of shooting dead 13 unarmed soldiers at Fort Hood in 2009, will be live streamed; Hasan is due to be executed by firing squad in December. The United Nations said this would breach the prohibition of torture and could violate the right to life, and a surviving former sergeant said the public should not watch, though he agreed with the method. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Navi Pillay, a South African judge who represented Nelson Mandela and recently chaired a UN Commission that accused Israel of genocide in Gaza, which Israel denies; Israel said the award legitimised anti-Israel hatred, and the Trump administration announced sanctions on the International Criminal Court, where she was once a judge. An official review warned that ADHD and autism risk being overdiagnosed in England, called for tighter regulation of private clinics offering NHS assessments, and said severe and complex needs should be prioritised; its author pointed to a real rise in distress and mental ill health among young people.

A shoplifter released last week under the government's early release scheme, 38-year-old Michael Bogle, was jailed for eight months after admitting offences that began the day after he left HMP Wandsworth. The Met Police said he had been assessed as high-risk and had 16 previous convictions linked to more than 100 investigations, and an assistant commissioner described the speed of his reoffending as astonishing; the government said it inherited a prison system on the brink of collapse and that offenders released on licence would face the toughest ever controls. Prosecutors said the man accused of murdering former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe at her Devon home in July was motivated by an extreme left-wing and/or anti-establishment mindset; Joshua Carey, 28, from Rotherham, appeared at the Old Bailey charged with her murder and preparing terrorist acts, including against Reform UK leader Nigel Farage. The judge agreed to combine the charges, and Carey's team said they would contest them, with a trial set for June next year. As Russia continued its bombardment of Kyiv, life in the Ukrainian capital was described as the most difficult of any time during the five-year conflict, amid fears of worsening attacks on infrastructure and a bitterly cold winter, with people leaving in increasing numbers. The Liberal Democrat MP Charlie Maynard resigned from the party's front bench, saying he wanted Sir Ed Davey replaced as leader; deputy leader Daisy Cooper said the vast majority of the party's 72 MPs supported Sir Ed.

Manchester City's manager, Enzo Maresca, said the club's league titles were not tainted and that he was confident it would win its appeal after it was found guilty of all charges relating to breaches of the Premier League's financial rules between 2009 and 2018; the club was found to have used more than £800 million of owner funding to inflate revenues through sham agreements. Yorkshire became the latest part of the UK declared in drought after a prolonged period of exceptionally dry weather. The Environment Agency said the hot summer had left rivers and reservoirs in the county low, and England would need 120 per cent of average rainfall from now through April to get the whole country out of drought. Only the north east and north west had escaped drought status, and much of Wales remained in drought, while Scotland and Northern Ireland had not been hit as hard. The agency said this was Yorkshire's third drought in five years, driven by climate change.