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Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor won a significant legal victory against Thames Valley Police after a judge ruled that search warrants used for two properties linked to him were unlawful because of a significant error in their application and grant; items including documents and electronic devices were seized in February from his Sandringham home and Royal Lodge in Windsor, the warrants were quashed, he has always denied wrongdoing, and the investigation continues while a judge will decide in 2027 whether the seized evidence can be used. Two Latvian nationals based in the UK were arrested on suspicion of trespassing at RAF Molesworth, a US and NATO intelligence hub in Cambridgeshire, after being found inside the perimeter following the discovery of an abandoned vehicle and a fence breach; they were held under the National Security Act, counter-terrorism police are leading the investigation, and police are not currently linking the incident to RAF Fairford last week. An inquest ruled that three sisters who drowned off Brighton in May, Jane Adetoro, Christina Walters and Rebecca Walters, took their own lives after hearing they could not swim, deliberately entered the water in adverse conditions, had visited Birmingham near where their mother had lived before she drowned in 2010, and had searched the word suicide 179 times on a laptop before bank accounts were cleared and debts repaid. An inquest concluded that 12-year-old Mia St Hilaire died from an allergic reaction after drinking a cafe milkshake in August 2023 that contained hazelnut from a previous milkshake made in the same blender; her family called for allergy ratings for food businesses and urgent reform. Mark Kane was remanded in custody charged with the murder of his wife Hannah Kane, an on-call doctor for the royal family in Sandringham who was found dead at her family home in Dersingham on Sunday, and will next appear in court in December. UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband told ITV News that a Russian attack that killed 22 civilians, including five children, was an atrocity, as he met Ukraine's President Zelensky in Kyiv and pledged more British support; a Russian glide bomb attack on two civilian buses in Kramatorsk killed at least 30 people, and Zelensky said Ukraine needs more air support amid a global shortage of air defence systems.

ASOS said hackers compromised the personal data of potentially millions of customers, including names, email addresses and search histories, raising fears of more convincing scams; cyber criminals said they had accessed a Snowflake instance and threatened to leak data, while ASOS said an unauthorised party gained access to an employee account by impersonating a trusted contact, that affected platforms were locked down, that no card payment information or account passwords were accessed, and that its app and website were safe to use, although customers were warned to remain vigilant. The president of Microsoft, Brad Smith, told ITV News that the risks of artificial intelligence are real and governments need to act now, saying AI is less regulated than a washing machine, that dangers can be managed but without urgent regulation there is a risk humans will lose control, and proposing independent testing, mandatory reporting and an emergency brake to shut down dangerous systems; he did not agree with President Trump's description of AI safety concerns as a hoax. The historic Marston's Brewery in Staffordshire will close next year, putting more than 300 jobs at risk, with its operators citing less demand for cask ale. NHS England is preparing for an early flu season after September cases were the highest for four years, with officials saying young adults are driving the increase and that it has put early winter pressure on services. An elm on Northern Ireland's east coast known as the Bendy Tree was crowned Tree of the Year after surviving Dutch elm disease and harsh weather, while a yew tree in Surrey took second place.

A Royal Navy sailor, 24-year-old Teddy Young, was remanded in custody accused of spying for a foreign power thought to be Russia; he worked for Naval Intelligence, was charged under the National Security Act with obtaining, recording, retaining or copying classified information and preparing to pass protected information to a foreign power, and is alleged to have translated a document into Russian and tried to contact Russian authorities on the dark web, making him the first serving armed forces member charged under the Act. German Chancellor Friedrich Merz said he would do anything to bring the UK closer to the EU as he met Andy Burnham in Berlin, after the UK prime minister raised the prospect of reversing Brexit; the visit included a bilateral security pact and defence cooperation, but it was unclear whether the aim was rejoining the customs union, the single market or the EU. The prime minister was also asked about Manchester City, which was found guilty of Premier League financial rule breaches, and said he had not downplayed the seriousness of the findings, separating football issues from wider investment. It was estimated that households spend around 400 pounds less a year on groceries if at least one family member is on slimming medication, with 8.25 million people in the UK having taken or considering appetite-suppressing drugs such as Mounjaro or Wegovy, supermarkets losing up to 780 million pounds a year, and Tesco's boss describing the shift as part of wider demand for healthier food. Hurricane Isaias, the first Atlantic hurricane of the season, formed in the Gulf of Mexico, rapidly intensified and is expected to bring its peak impact to the US on Saturday with high winds, storm surges and heavy rain, prompting warnings and evacuations on the Alabama coast; it is not expected to hit the UK but may disturb UK weather patterns next week. Computer scientist Margaret Hamilton, who led the team that wrote the in-flight software for Apollo 11, died aged 90; she was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama in 2016.