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ITV Lunchtime News
Monday 21 September 2026 · 13:30 BST · 25m · 7 stories · 15 annotated moments · 18 of 25 min on news stories (74%)
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ITV Lunchtime News reported that a technical problem at air traffic control caused flight cancellations and delays in the UK less than two weeks after a software defect led to about 2,000 flights being cancelled. NATS said the latest issue was a connectivity problem at Prestwick and Ayrshire and was not related to the earlier fault; Ryanair again called for NATS chief executive Martin Rolfe to resign, and the transport secretary acknowledged passengers' frustration. Disruption affected airports in Scotland, Northern Ireland and northern England, with cancellations and delays at Edinburgh, Belfast City, Belfast International, Derry and Manchester, where 146 flights were delayed and seven cancelled as operations returned to normal. A London court heard that Axel Rudakubana, jailed for life over the Southport attacks, faced new charges including attempted grievous bodily harm after allegedly throwing boiling water mixed with sugar at a prison officer; he appeared by video link from Broadmoor, entered no pleas and will next appear at the Old Bailey next month.
The government promised every Crown Court in England and Wales would have at least one courtroom dedicated to rape and serious sexual offences within two years, saying victims had waited too long for justice. The report noted rape cases took an average 424 days to complete once they reached the courts, and the victim's minister argued dedicated courtrooms would speed up processing through special measures and avoid cases being floated; Rape Crisis England and Wales cautiously welcomed the move, while questions remained about a courts backlog of around 80,000 cases and a courts bill due to be debated in the Commons next month. The broadcast also reported that Presley Gerber, the son of Cindy Crawford, had died at a rehabilitation facility in Los Angeles aged 27, and that Russia's United Russia party had kept its parliamentary majority in an election critics said was neither free nor fair.
It was reported that nearly two million people in Japan had been urged to evacuate because of Typhoon 25, which brought sustained winds of 80mph, gusts forecast above 120mph, torrential rain, landslides, one confirmed death, hundreds of cancelled flights and disruption to rail and roads at the start of the Silver Week holidays. In the US, the trial of Lindsay Clancy over the deaths of her three children ended in a mistrial after a jury could not reach a unanimous verdict; her ex-husband Patrick Clancy said he had forgiven her, and no retrial had yet been announced. The broadcast also covered concerns that extreme heat had reduced milk production on UK dairy farms, with 1.24 million fewer litres collected each day than last year, and threatened tea supplies from Kenya, along with a warning from health leaders over a decline in organ donations with nearly 9,000 people waiting for transplants and the opening of the UK's first brain health clinic in Manchester.
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Claim Air traffic control failure triggers travel chaos and review
NATS said a fresh Prestwick incident was due to a software issue and unrelated to earlier technical problems or the August 2023 outage.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 0:04-0:24
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Claim Air traffic control failure triggers travel chaos and review
Michael O'Leary called for NATS boss Martin Rolfe to resign.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 0:18-0:28
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Charged quote Air traffic control failure triggers travel chaos and review
cancelled. No-one has any answers, no-one knows what is happening. They just left. The chief executive here at Edinburgh Airport told us earlier that this is massively frustrating and said something needs to change. That is the sentiment that is echoed throughout the aviation industry today with renewed calls
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 1:46-1:49
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Charged quote Air traffic control failure triggers travel chaos and review
something needs to change. That is the sentiment that is echoed throughout the aviation industry today with renewed calls for NATS chief executive Martin Rolfe to resign. NATS itself has apologised for any inconvenience caused but ultimately when an issue like this happens again, pressure is going to mount.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 1:55-1:59
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Contested quote Air traffic control failure triggers travel chaos and review
seven flights have been cancelled. Now, we cannot say for sure that those delays and cancellations are because of those technical issues. Up in Scotland and London, Manchester Airport have today said that they might have been a result of natural operational issues. But without a doubt, there have been more delays than normal. Delays to Belfast, to
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 3:37-3:45
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Claim Axel Rudakubana appears in court over prison officer attack charges
He was accused of possessing sharpened stones or stone shards hidden under a shelving unit as an offensive weapon, and allegedly said they were for self defence.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 6:04-6:15
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Claim Every Crown Court in England and Wales to get dedicated rape courtroom by 2028
At least one dedicated courtroom for rape and sexual offences is to be provided in every Crown Court in England and Wales within two years.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 6:50-7:04
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Claim Every Crown Court in England and Wales to get dedicated rape courtroom by 2028
There is a large court backlog, particularly for rape and sexual assault cases, with the Crown Court backlog standing at around 80,000 cases as of March.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 8:18-8:28
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Claim Typhoon Dujuan kills at least five in eastern Japan
About 2 million people in Japan were advised to evacuate because of a powerful typhoon.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 9:36-9:42
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Claim Typhoon Dujuan kills at least five in eastern Japan
About 2 million people in Japan were advised to evacuate because of a powerful typhoon.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 9:36-9:42
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Claim Typhoon Dujuan kills at least five in eastern Japan
Typhoon 25 had sustained winds of 80 miles per hour and forecast gusts above 120 miles per hour.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 9:56-10:03
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Claim Typhoon Dujuan kills at least five in eastern Japan
Typhoon 25 had sustained winds of 80 miles per hour and forecast gusts above 120 miles per hour.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 9:56-10:03
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Claim Typhoon Dujuan kills at least five in eastern Japan
Typhoon 25 had sustained winds of 80 miles per hour and forecast gusts above 120 miles per hour.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 9:56-10:03
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Claim Typhoon Dujuan kills at least five in eastern Japan
About 2 million people in Japan were advised to evacuate because of a powerful typhoon.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 10:36-10:41
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Claim Mistrial declared in Lindsay Clancy trial as prosecutors weigh retrial
The jury failed to reach a verdict after five days of deliberations.
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 21 September 2026, 13:33-13:35
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