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Thames Valley Police accepted that warrants used to search two homes of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor were unlawful after a judge issued them under the wrong section of the Police and Criminal Evidence Act. The searches took place in February during an active criminal investigation into alleged misconduct in public office, and the seized material was not being handed back while police sought permission to retain and use it. The programme said police had already made a new application to retain the material, which Andrew was believed to be opposing. Further court hearings will decide whether potential evidence can be considered in any future trial. The report noted Andrew had been arrested and released under investigation, that the case involved his links to Jeffrey Epstein and allegations made by Virginia Giuffre, and that he had consistently denied wrongdoing; a criminal barrister told the programme that courts usually allow investigations to continue after such warrant mistakes, though returning material is rare.

The programme then covered national security and the war in Ukraine. It reported that Andy Burnham was in Germany discussing a partnership against future threats, while Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband was in Ukraine announcing new sanctions on Russian military supply chains. Two Latvian men were arrested after being found inside the perimeter of RAF Molesworth. Earlier, Royal Navy sailor Teddy Young, 24, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court charged under the National Security Act with obtaining and preparing to disclose protected material intending to benefit a foreign power, understood to be Russia; he was remanded in custody until the Old Bailey. Police said the case was unrelated to arrests around RAF Fairford. The Prime Minister was in Berlin for talks with German Chancellor Friedrich Merz, including a new partnership on countering hybrid attacks. In Ukraine, reports said 33 people were killed in Kramatorsk and 22 in Pryluky, with more than 70 killed across Ukraine in under 48 hours; Ed Miliband visited Pryluky with President Zelensky, who said President Trump could do more. An analyst discussed Russian hybrid warfare and historical attacks on British soil.

An inquest concluded that three sisters whose bodies were recovered on Brighton Beach in May had taken their own lives. The coroner found they entered the sea at night in adverse conditions; the hearing considered CCTV, medical examinations showing no physical harm, and bank accounts cleared beforehand. The sisters, who could not swim, had travelled from West London by taxi, and two days earlier had visited an area near a Birmingham lake where their mother had drowned more than 16 years earlier. Their father described losing all three daughters as a heartbreak beyond anything he could have imagined, and the family raised questions about whether the evidence was enough to conclude that all three had decided to end their lives. Ed Miliband later said British consulates in East Jerusalem would not close and would be known as the UK Mission after Israel forced a renaming over the UK trade ban on illegal West Bank settlements; some staff were withdrawn for safety. Student protest leaders met the French education minister, with the government promising to address demands without specific details, after blockades and marches over school buildings and teacher shortages. Christa Pike, the Tennessee inmate who survived two lethal injections last week, was reported to be up and walking in hospital, while Texas executed a convicted murderer using the same drug. Eritrean troops launched an incursion into northern Ethiopia's Tigray region, where Ethiopia's government was already fighting an alliance of seven internal rebel factions, with reports of looting and airstrikes and warnings it could reignite a decades-old conflict and draw in outside powers. With just over three weeks until US midterm elections, the programme reported from Michigan, a swing state where a focus group discussed President Trump, affordability, immigration and the Senate race between Republican Mike Rogers and progressive Democrat Abdul El-Sayed. Voters expressed anger at Trump and mixed views on El-Sayed, while Democratic Party descriptions included sad, lost and confused; analysts discussed the national picture, including the possibility Republicans could lose control of Congress. A World Wildlife Fund report said global wildlife populations had shrunk by an average of 73% since 1970, with Latin America down 95% and freshwater species down 85%, though bluefin tuna, elephants, wild tigers and green sea turtles showed recovery. Polls opened in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election to replace Sir Keir Starmer as MP, with 15 candidates and voting closing at 10pm. A report from Greater Manchester examined pressures on local news, including job cuts, AI summarising journalism, social media competition, and efforts by titles such as the Manchester Evening News and The Mill to sustain reporting.