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ITV Lunchtime News
Thursday 3 September 2026 · 13:30 BST · 25m · 7 stories · 15 annotated moments · 17 of 25 min on news stories (70%)
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Three men were jailed for between four and a half and six years for defrauding around 3,000 people of £70 million through a bogus Costa Rican tree-planting scheme, spending the money on cars, houses, and holidays. A campaign group claimed water companies dumped sewage into England's waters for more than 43,000 hours during dry July and August, and a petition was delivered to Downing Street. A 16-year-old was sentenced to four and a half years in youth detention for stabbing a teacher, a man extradited from Latvia admitted causing the death of a 12-year-old in a hit-and-run, and a mother and three others were charged with murdering a newborn found with stab wounds. The government named and shamed over 600 employers, including B&Q and Five Guys, for underpaying staff below the minimum wage, with £4 million repaid and £7 million in penalties issued.
Britain and France agreed to boost police on the French coast to stop small boat crossings, and the Green Party leader confirmed he would stand in a by-election triggered by Keir Starmer's resignation. Dame Joanna Lumley highlighted the devastation of Nepal's floods, which killed at least 1,252 people with more than 4,200 missing, as authorities used a temporary zip wire to help survivors. Uber launched driverless robo-taxis in London with a human safety operator still behind the wheel, and the American feminist activist Gloria Steinem died aged 92. In Peterborough, volunteers completed an intricate embroidery replica of the cathedral's 800-year-old painted ceiling, and Travis Kelce spoke publicly for the first time about his wedding to Taylor Swift at Madison Square Garden, describing it as magical with a strict no-phones policy.
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Charged quote Three men jailed for £70m pension fraud over fake Costa Rica tree scheme
on fast cars and expensive houses. Instead, they have just been jailed for scamming around 3,000 people in the UK in a fraud totalling £70 million. They had promised investors they would spend their money on planting trees in Costa Rica. But the green scheme was bogus and the trio a court heard today spent investors' money like it was their own. Our reporter
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 0:38-0:44
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Charged quote Three men jailed for £70m pension fraud over fake Costa Rica tree scheme
Well, Nina, in the last couple of minutes, I was actually just speaking to one of those investors, a grandmother, Andrea from Cheshire. She said that it's absolutely devastated her life. She's lost £125,000. She says she doesn't feel confident that she'll get it back. She said it's led to her feeling suicidal. Now, inside the court, the judge
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 1:00-1:12
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Charged quote Three men jailed for £70m pension fraud over fake Costa Rica tree scheme
investors, a grandmother, Andrea from Cheshire. She said that it's absolutely devastated her life. She's lost £125,000. She says she doesn't feel confident that she'll get it back. She said it's led to her feeling suicidal. Now, inside the court, the judge said that the defendants were spending money like they had won the lottery on things
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 1:12-1:17
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Charged quote Three men jailed for £70m pension fraud over fake Costa Rica tree scheme
The defendants treated the company like it was a run on the bank by the end. They spent investors' money like it was their own. And they spent that money on dozens of fast cars, which is particularly insulting when the investors were trying to invest in a green investment to improve, plant more trees and improve the quality of the air.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 2:21-2:28
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Charged quote Three men jailed for £70m pension fraud over fake Costa Rica tree scheme
but clearly that process now needs to begin. The defendants today have been jailed for between four and a half and six years each. The judge said that they had shown recklessness, carelessness and greed. Amy Lewis, thank you. What's the truth about the sewage being dumped in our seas? The campaign group Surfers Against
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 3:07-3:17
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Claim Surfers Against Sewage delivers petition as sewage spills hit 43,000 hours
Water companies dumped sewage into England's waterways for over 43,000 hours during July and August.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 3:25-3:37
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Charged quote Government names over 600 employers for minimum wage underpayment
in a house on Sunday. Next, if you thought you lived in a country where everyone was paid the minimum wage, you would be wrong. The government has named and shamed hundreds of companies who failed to pay some of their workers. Properly topping the list was B&Q. Our reporter, Savit Choudry, is here. What are the details? Hello there, Nina. Well, over 600 employers have
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 7:03-7:15
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Claim Government names over 600 employers for minimum wage underpayment
The government named over 600 employers for underpaying staff below the national minimum wage, including B&Q, with about £4 million repaid and £7 million in penalties.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 7:15-7:30
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Claim Government names over 600 employers for minimum wage underpayment
The government named over 600 employers for underpaying staff below the national minimum wage, including B&Q, with about £4 million repaid and £7 million in penalties.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 7:36-7:51
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Charged quote Government names over 600 employers for minimum wage underpayment
unintentional calculation error. And then there's Five Guys, the fast food chain that we all know, they owed about £54,000 to almost 3,700 members of staff. And we have reached out to Comment. Now for Comment, in total, Nina, about £4 million has now been paid back to those short-changed employees and penalties where £7 million have also been issued. Savit Choudry, thank you.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 8:22-8:36
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Claim Government names over 600 employers for minimum wage underpayment
The government named over 600 employers for underpaying staff below the national minimum wage, including B&Q, with about £4 million repaid and £7 million in penalties.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 8:22-8:36
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Charged quote Aid reaches survivors a week after Nepal floods
as a candidate in the Holborn and St Pancras by-election. It was triggered after the surprise resignation as an MP of the former Prime Minister, Keir Starmer. Dame Joanna Lumley has told ITV News of the muddy greyness of nothingness in Nepal. She is highlighting the plight of those affected by last week's devastating floods. The disaster swept away bridges and roads
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 9:23-9:29
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Charged quote Aid reaches survivors a week after Nepal floods
hard has that community been hit? They're counting the dead and they can only say how many are dead when they actually have found them and pronounce them dead but there are countless bodies not found maybe won't be found still buried and the grieving of those families who've returned to villages if they manage to scramble out of the way which aren't there anymore literally
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 10:47-11:00
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Claim Uber launches first self-driving taxis in London with safety drivers
15 self-driving Ubers are operating in London.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 12:52-12:59
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Charged quote Uber launches first self-driving taxis in London with safety drivers
Traffic and legislation have held Europe back. London the second city after Zagreb to roll out. It looks like this vehicle here is probably going to cut in front of us. I've driven in London it's a nightmare you have to get the right level of assertiveness that must have been very difficult to make a computer like that. Because our cars learn to drive like a human
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 3 September 2026, 13:55-14:04
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