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Channel 4 News
Thursday 5 November 2026 · 19:00 GMT · 1h · 5 stories · 14 annotated moments · 46 of 60 min on news stories (76%)
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A UK-weighted bulletin was led and dominated by Russell Brand's conviction and remand in custody, which took 21 minutes and 4 seconds. The US midterm elections and their fallout got 12 minutes and 20 seconds, and the Bank of England's rate rise got 5 minutes and 53 seconds. The remaining airtime went to a Channel 4 cancellation at 2 minutes and 40 seconds and an attempted murder trial at 3 minutes and 13 seconds.
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Russell Brand, comedian
- 9:49
Kate Smurthwaite, comedian and activist
- 14:43
Shappi Khorsandi, Comedian
- 18:50
Dorothy Byrne, spent more than 15 years as head of news and current affairs at Channel 4
- 25:23
Lorna Hopes, mortgage advisor
- 26:15
Andrew Bailey, the bank's governor
- 30:33
Donald Trump, President
- 36:56
Ian Bremmer, President of the political risk consultancy Eurasia Group
- 53:55
Priya Dogra, Channel 4's CEO
- 2:24
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Claim Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault
Russell Brand was convicted at Southwark Crown Court of one count of rape and three counts of sexual assault, with the rape relating to a young fan after a 2009 show.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 3:20-3:28
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Charged quote Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault
of rape made by two more women. You know, sex is sort of a hobby. I like it. Would you believe that there are people that are trying to spoil that for me now? Russell Brand made sex the punchline. But behind the laughter, a predator hid in plain sight. Outside court, he played to the cameras, but he couldn't control this verdict.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 4:00-4:08
- 4:28
Claim Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault
Women came forward following Channel 4's 2023 Dispatches programme.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 4:28-4:36
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Charged quote Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault
It wasn't that fun when I couldn't move. The victims in this trial all came forward after seeing that programme. Brand told police watching it had made those women reimagine their encounters, but he was the one rewriting history. This trial took us behind the curtain of celebrity culture to a much darker place
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 4:40-4:52
- 4:48
Charged quote Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault
watching it had made those women reimagine their encounters, but he was the one rewriting history. This trial took us behind the curtain of celebrity culture to a much darker place because at the centre of it were six women who came forward to police to tell them what Russell Brand had done to them.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 4:48-5:04
- 9:33
Claim Russell Brand found guilty of rape and sexual assault
Kate Smurthwaite said women in comedy warned one another to avoid Brand.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 9:33-9:45
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Charged quote Bank of England raises interest rates to 4% and warns more may follow
said unless the Middle East conflict was resolved, it was unlikely to be the last increase. Our economics editor, Helia Ebrahimi, reports. Homeowners in the firing line as interest rates rise again. After a rollercoaster of 14 hikes that ended the era of cheap money, borrowing costs had been coming down.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 23:56-24:00
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Contested quote Bank of England raises interest rates to 4% and warns more may follow
which is you've got to concede, Governor, is going to make the cost of living crisis worse for people. Well, what I'm also saying, and this is very important, that if we don't act, it would get even worse, because we would have generalised inflation, and that would be even worse. So I think in saying these events are out of our control,
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 26:53-27:02
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Charged quote Bank of England raises interest rates to 4% and warns more may follow
And driving it all right now is high prices, here at the forecourt and in our homes. War has kicked off a cost-of-living crisis, which in turn has ignited turmoil in politics the world over, a spiral of problems central bankers find hard to navigate, let alone solve. Good evening from the White House in Washington, D.C.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 29:08-29:23
- 29:23 Story begins Democrats win control of Congress in US midterms
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Contested quote Democrats win control of Congress in US midterms
as his Republican coalition crumbles around him. President Trump, typically humble in the post-mortem of his defeat. If I was on the ballot, we would have won, but you couldn't transfer that love. There was such love at those rallies. It was incredible. We weren't able to transfer the love to candidates.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 30:33-30:38
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Charged quote Democrats win control of Congress in US midterms
with the support of both chambers behind him. But at half-inning, the other team has an advantage and are ready to use it. The first is we're going to take on the Trump crime family. Investigations in Congress seem likely to begin in January. Democrats will frame it as a clean-up operation. But they still have two more years before Trump's final fall.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 33:45-33:50
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Claim Anthony Williams denies attempted murder in Huntingdon train stabbings
Stephen Crean was seriously injured, took shelter in a toilet and called 999 during the attack.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 44:33-44:38
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Claim Anthony Williams denies attempted murder in Huntingdon train stabbings
Scott Green was saved after his cockapoo barked.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 45:18-45:23
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Claim Anthony Williams denies attempted murder in Huntingdon train stabbings
Anthony Williams denied 14 attempted murder charges and is due to face trial at Cambridge Crown Court.
Channel 4, Channel 4 News, 5 November 2026, 46:22-46:25
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