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ITV Evening News
Wednesday 14 October 2026 · 18:30 BST · 1h · 10 stories · 15 annotated moments · 54 of 60 min on news stories (90%)
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The bulletin led with an ITV Exposure undercover investigation into Reform UK, reporting racist, Islamophobic and misogynistic remarks by approved councillors and candidates, including comments about deporting Muslims and restricting the non-white population. Reform UK said it would investigate inappropriate behaviour and that a handful of people may initially pass vetting; three councillors resigned from the party after being approached. The programme also heard political reaction and analysis of the potential damage to Reform.
The next main story was the opening of Russell Brand's trial at Southwark Crown Court on rape, sexual and indecent assault charges. Prosecutors called him a ruthless and manipulative sexual predator, while he pleaded not guilty to all seven charges relating to six women between 1999 and 2009. The bulletin then reported that a man's body had been recovered after a fishing boat went missing off the Isle of Lewis, with two other men still being searched for, before covering President Zelensky's meetings with the King and the Prime Minister in London amid Russian strikes on Kyiv and uncertainty over US intelligence sharing.
Later, the family of William Chapman, killed by a tiger at a Yorkshire wildlife park, asked people to stop sharing videos of the incident after President Trump posted footage, while an inquest was due to open. The programme also reported Andy Burnham ruling out a future coalition with the Greens over its policy equating Zionism with racism, which the Prime Minister condemned as wrong and anti-Semitic, and John Swinney inviting the Prime Minister to the SNP conference to discuss a new independence referendum. Further items included Pope Leo's hospital stay after lung surgery, a German trial over the Nord Stream pipeline, Ofcom's call for X to do more on hate and terror content, the discovery of a 4,700-year-old shipwreck, and a 99-year-old woman becoming the oldest recorded wingwalker.
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Charged quote ITV Exposure uncovers offensive comments by Reform UK figures
record books. I don't think anyone believes that I'm 99. I can't believe it myself. I'm still here. Nearly 100 years. This is the ITV Evening News with Mary Nightingale. Good evening. Racist, Islamophobic, misogynistic. Just some of the extreme views held by some Reform UK politicians who were approved by their party to stand in last May's elections. Undercover
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 2:09-2:17
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Claim ITV Exposure uncovers offensive comments by Reform UK figures
Undercover recordings captured Reform UK councillors and candidates making racist, Islamophobic and misogynistic remarks.
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 2:09-2:26
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Claim ITV Exposure uncovers offensive comments by Reform UK figures
Undercover recordings captured Reform UK councillors and candidates making racist, Islamophobic and misogynistic remarks.
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 2:09-2:26
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Claim ITV Exposure uncovers offensive comments by Reform UK figures
Undercover recordings captured Reform UK councillors and candidates making racist, Islamophobic and misogynistic remarks.
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 2:09-2:26
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Charged quote ITV Exposure uncovers offensive comments by Reform UK figures
Asian households. Look at this. One, two, three, four, five. That one might belong to him, I don't know. But again, this is just what we're infested with. That's why they're buying along here, because the houses have got big gardens. They're parasites, absolute parasite. It's like on partridge, isn't it?
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 4:55-4:59
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Charged quote ITV Exposure uncovers offensive comments by Reform UK figures
That one might belong to him, I don't know. But again, this is just what we're infested with. That's why they're buying along here, because the houses have got big gardens. They're parasites, absolute parasite. It's like on partridge, isn't it? Alan's rice, as can be said. But for Councillor Feeney, who defected from the Conservative
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 5:03-5:06
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Charged quote ITV Exposure uncovers offensive comments by Reform UK figures
But when voters aren't around, Councillor Feeney says what he really thinks. So when a house comes up for sale, quite people need to be in there. You almost need to be out muzzling the Muslims. You'd need a proper nuclear option, like literally drag them at their homes, stick them on planes and off to Pakistan, which you'll never
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 6:04-6:08
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Claim ITV Exposure uncovers offensive comments by Reform UK figures
Reform UK figures Alan Feeney, Chris Whelan and Dean Miller resigned from the party; Feeney and Whelan resigned after being approached for comment.
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 8:18-8:24
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Claim ITV Exposure uncovers offensive comments by Reform UK figures
Reform UK figures Alan Feeney, Chris Whelan and Dean Miller resigned from the party; Feeney and Whelan resigned after being approached for comment.
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 8:18-8:24
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Claim ITV Exposure uncovers offensive comments by Reform UK figures
Reform UK figures Alan Feeney, Chris Whelan and Dean Miller resigned from the party; Feeney and Whelan resigned after being approached for comment.
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 11:29-11:35
- 17:32 Story begins Russell Brand rape and sexual assault trial begins
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Claim Zelensky meets Burnham as UK speeds up Ukraine air defence deliveries
Downing Street said Andy Burnham would host Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy the next day.
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 21:36-21:45
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Claim Zelensky meets Burnham as UK speeds up Ukraine air defence deliveries
The Prime Minister was expected to offer additional military aid to Ukraine.
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 23:54-23:59
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Claim Zelensky meets Burnham as UK speeds up Ukraine air defence deliveries
The Prime Minister was expected to offer additional military aid to Ukraine.
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 23:54-23:59
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Claim Manchester City face PSG in first home game since financial breach verdict
Manchester City denied wrongdoing and appealed, with sanctions possibly imposed before the appeal concludes.
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 35:25-35:32
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Claim SNP conference and Swinney independence referendum path after Burnham rejection
Swinney said the timing of a Scottish independence referendum should be discussed and it should be held before 2031.
ITV, ITV Evening News, 14 October 2026, 43:42-43:44
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