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Army bomb disposal experts have been examining vehicles in a village near RAF Fairford, and the police cordon has been extended to include the air base itself. The Home Secretary said the incident is now believed to have been contained, but many significant questions remain unanswered, including how many men have been arrested and what police believe they were planning. A local councillor urged people to remain calm. RAF Fairford is used by American bombers and has played a role in US military operations against Iran, although police have not said whether there is a connection to today's incident; an update from police was expected shortly.

The Prime Minister called for calm after a controversial Orange Order parade in Northern Ireland was given the go-ahead overnight following legal wranglings but did not get started this morning. In Portadown, hundreds of protesters blocked the route and a standstill continued; the parade had been meant to begin at 8am and finish by 9.30am, and the Orange Order had not stepped onto the Garvaghy Road for 28 years. A High Court judge in Belfast ruled late last night that the parade could go ahead, while protesters linked arms and blocked the road through the night and morning. First Minister Michelle O'Neill was there to support Garvaghy residents. Extra police officers were drafted in from Scotland and on standby to support the PSNI, and the Chief Constable called for calm as the Orange Order waited for the road to clear. The Secretary of State for Northern Ireland said he could not intervene because it was a policing matter, and the nationalist residents group behind the protest said it would stay as long as it took.

The Labour Conference is underway in Liverpool, Andy Burnham's first as leader of the party and as Prime Minister. He announced measures to help first-time buyers on the property ladder and committed to creating a new universal social care health service. He said social care must be addressed or it will break the NHS, and that he would announce some details in his conference speech on Tuesday, describing what sounded like a major new organisation: a national care service that would be free at the point of use and funded in a similar but not exactly the same way as the NHS. He said everyone would contribute but it would have to be done without putting extra strain on the public purse, and that the plan could not be done within the existing Labour manifesto, so it would be put to the nation at the next election in 2029. It was unclear whether this meant ditching the pensions triple lock pledge. Separately, 27 people were killed in South Africa across two separate shootings, one late on Saturday night near Johannesburg and the second in the early hours of Sunday near Cape Town, with no arrests made. In France, hundreds of thousands of worshippers attended a Sunday mass with Pope Leo during his four-day tour, and he waved to crowds at Lourdes's main basilica in his popemobile before an estimated 150,000 pilgrims.