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Sky News Today with Jayne Secker
Thursday 17 September 2026 · 16:00 BST · 30m · 7 stories · 15 annotated moments · 25 of 30 min on news stories (83%)
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The father of three-year-old Noah Woods paid tribute to his son, calling him the sweetest and most innocent boy, after Suffolk Police confirmed that a body found in Decoy Pond was formally identified as Noah. The child had gone missing from a playground in Brantham, prompting a large-scale search involving more than 1,000 volunteers, with tributes left at the scene. Separately, the Metropolitan Police referred itself to the IOPC over its contact with Nicholas Brantham, the suspected Putney Pusher found dead at home, whose family denied his involvement and claimed he took his own life due to the pressure of the police investigation.
The Bank of England held interest rates at 3.75% despite a split vote, with the Governor citing high energy prices and tightened monetary conditions, while analysts suggested that rate increases may be forthcoming. Shadow Chancellor Andrew Griffith urged the government to rule out further tax rises and attacked Labour's John Healey as out of his depth, with his speech drawing dividing lines on welfare and defence spending.
Buckingham Palace responded to claims in Earl Spencer's upcoming book that the then Prince Charles said "we'll forget her soon enough" about Diana, issuing a statement about the pain of fraternal grief. The King continued with public engagements by hosting leading AI executives, urging them to ensure humanity is not lost, while AI expert Geoffrey Hinton warned of real dangers. Sky News also reported that England's FIFA vice president Debbie Hewitt called for an independent review into Gianni Infantino's World Cup sell-off plan and asked for documents relating to the Folarin Balogun red card controversy.
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- 4:56 Story begins Putney Bridge push suspect found dead at home
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Claim Putney Bridge push suspect found dead at home
The Metropolitan Police referred itself to the IOPC over its contact with the man.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 4:56-5:03
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Contested quote Putney Bridge push suspect found dead at home
Now, he became the focus of enormous attention. And then on Tuesday evening of this week, he was found dead at his home. And his family have confirmed in a statement that the much-loved member of the family had taken his own life. Now, there is a statement which is hugely critical of the Metropolitan Police
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 6:52-7:01
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Charged quote Putney Bridge push suspect found dead at home
and the way that they handled this case. This is a part of that statement. So what should have been a careful investigation became a public ordeal from which he was given no escape, even as the evidence increasingly demonstrated that the police had arrested the wrong man. There was no forensic evidence linking Nick to it,
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 7:11-7:23
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Claim Putney Bridge push suspect found dead at home
The family said there was no forensic evidence linking him to the incident.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 7:23-7:28
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Claim Putney Bridge push suspect found dead at home
The family said there was no forensic evidence linking him to the incident.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 7:23-7:25
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Contested quote Putney Bridge push suspect found dead at home
that they'd already been warned months earlier about the exceptional psychological pressure Nick was under. Even then, the investigation was not brought to an end. As a result, Nick is dead. And the family have a long list of questions that they want answered by the Metropolitan Police, and including why he was arrested in the first place,
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 8:02-8:04
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Charged quote Shadow Chancellor calls on Chancellor to rule out tax rises in next month's budget
on his Labour counterpart, John Healey, who he labeled as out of his depth. Now, I'm afraid we meet in difficult times. Britain today faces many problems. It has a debt problem, it has a growth problem, and it has now a Healey problem. Labour inherited the first two, but immediately made them worse. They chose to add £260 billion of debt
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 11:52-11:58
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Charged quote Shadow Chancellor calls on Chancellor to rule out tax rises in next month's budget
Now, I'm afraid we meet in difficult times. Britain today faces many problems. It has a debt problem, it has a growth problem, and it has now a Healey problem. Labour inherited the first two, but immediately made them worse. They chose to add £260 billion of debt over the course of this Parliament. They chose to impose the highest tax burden
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 11:58-12:03
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Charged quote Shadow Chancellor calls on Chancellor to rule out tax rises in next month's budget
Labour inherited the first two, but immediately made them worse. They chose to add £260 billion of debt over the course of this Parliament. They chose to impose the highest tax burden since records began. And in just 40 days' time now, on the 28th of October, we fear it's about to get worse, because rather than change,
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 12:09-12:14
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Charged quote Shadow Chancellor calls on Chancellor to rule out tax rises in next month's budget
since records began. And in just 40 days' time now, on the 28th of October, we fear it's about to get worse, because rather than change, we have another Chancellor who's out of his depth. Our political correspondent, Rob Powell, was at the speech, and this is his analysis. I think it was sort of a speech of two parts.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 12:23-12:27
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Claim Earl Spencer book and comments renew royal tensions over Diana
Earl Spencer alleged that Prince Charles said Diana would be forgotten soon enough.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 15:55-15:59
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Claim Earl Spencer book and comments renew royal tensions over Diana
Buckingham Palace responded that grief can cloud a person's memory.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 16:40-16:51
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Claim Earl Spencer book and comments renew royal tensions over Diana
Buckingham Palace responded that grief can cloud a person's memory.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 16:40-16:51
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Claim King Charles warns AI leaders of existential dangers at Dumfries House summit
The King will say that decisions taken now will shape the world for future generations and that AI must remain in the service of humanity.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 19:07-19:11
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Contested quote King Charles warns AI leaders of existential dangers at Dumfries House summit
and obviously the people who've been talking about it a few years ago have had some impact, but I think it's really the development of AI itself and what just happened with Hugging Face has made people aware that this is a real danger. Well, the race to develop AI appears to be unstoppable and a big part of that is the financial pressure
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 17 September 2026, 20:24-20:29
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