ITV Evening News

The evening's main story was diesel hitting a record average of £2 per litre at UK pumps, with G7 leaders agreeing to release 100 million barrels of diesel and crude oil reserves over the next few months. The move followed pressure from Donald Trump, who wanted reserves released ahead of US midterm elections, and the G7 also committed to avoiding restrictions on energy exports between their countries. A later Washington report said the plan included an accelerated release of diesel over 20 days, that a US export ban threat had been abandoned, that 30% of UK diesel imports come from the US, and that ending the Middle East war and reopening the Strait of Hormuz would be decisive. Buckingham Palace said the King would not apologise for the UK's role in the transatlantic slave trade during a Caribbean visit but would not shy away from the issue. A Fly Dubai pilot stabbed by his co-pilot described opening the cockpit door despite injuries, allowing passengers to restrain the attacker and land the aircraft safely; Israeli investigators were to question the co-pilot. Manchester City lodged what it called a comprehensive appeal after being found guilty of 114 financial rule-breaking charges between 2009 and 2018, including alleged sham contracts and more than £900 million in inflated revenues and reduced costs; a new panel will review the verdict within 12 weeks. Alison Hammond was taken to hospital after falling ill live on This Morning and later said she was having her heart checked but thought she was OK.

Plaid Cymru leader Rhun ap Iorwerth used his party's conference to call for more powers to be devolved from Westminster, including policing, justice, rail infrastructure, the Crown Estate, funding and welfare, and said he wanted Wales treated as a nation rather than a region of England; he also said a child poverty target would be published next year. A woman who stabbed her abusive partner to death had her murder conviction overturned: Julianne McIlwain admitted killing James Joseph Crosley in March 2022 but denied murder, claiming a temporary loss of control, and Northern Ireland's Court of Appeal ruled the jury had been misdirected, with prosecutors given two weeks to decide on a retrial. Kevin Rees was jailed for 15 years for detonating a homemade bomb at a ULEZ camera in south-east London, damaging cars and houses up to 100 metres away. Dylan Earl, the British ringleader of a Russian-backed Wagner Group gang behind an arson attack on an east London warehouse storing aid for Ukraine, was ordered to pay more than £160,000 to victims after the fire caused about £1 million of damage. An adoptee, Michael Gosling, discovered through a DNA test that his biological father was Grammy-winning Doobie Brothers singer Michael McDonald, and the two met nearly 60 years after he was adopted.

Former ITN cameraman Peter Wilkinson described filming the 1988 IRA funeral attack in Belfast in which British Army corporals Derek Wood and David Howes drove into a procession, were dragged from their car, beaten and murdered, during one of the most violent periods of the Troubles. After a break, the programme returned to the diesel story with a Washington correspondent saying Trump was claiming credit for the G7 agreement and that US politics and the midterms were shaping the timeline. It also reported protests in France over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and run-down school buildings, with thousands arrested, hundreds injured and schools set alight, and protests in Mumbai by India's youth-led Cockroach Janta Party over concerns millions of citizens were being stripped of voting rights. Green Party leader Zack Polanski called for a three-year emergency break on private rents and said voting Green forces Labour to change policy, while a conference motion calling Zionism a form of racism divided the party. A world-first trial was launched for a Group B streptococcus vaccine in pregnancy, with parents urging volunteers to take part. Police charged 28-year-old Joshua Kerry with preparation of terrorist acts, including against Nigel Farage, and South East Water extended its hosepipe ban to all customers and sought restrictions on businesses after a record dry summer and dry September.