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Sky News Today
Friday 18 September 2026 · 16:00 BST · 30m · 7 stories · 15 annotated moments · 25 of 30 min on news stories (82%)
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A Sky News investigation into the online network known as 'com' exposed its scale and methods, reporting that the National Crime Agency has received 1,476 referrals since October 2025, with about a third recorded since July. The report detailed how members coerce children into self-harm and livestream acts, and included an account from a British victim, with former safeguarding minister Jess Phillips urging tech companies to implement age verification to prevent under-18s from taking or sending nude images.
Following that, air traffic control operator Nats said a software defect caused the recent outage that led to over 2,000 flight cancellations, with CEO Martin Rolfe confirming it was unrelated to the 2023 system failure. A teenager from South Sudan was jailed for two years and three months for piloting an overcrowded dinghy carrying 165 people across the Channel. Separately, the family of Jagtar Singh Johal, a Scottish man detained in India for nearly nine years without conviction, said he had been granted bail. Police released new CCTV of a missing 13-year-old girl from Bolton. England manager Thomas Tuchel spoke to the press for the first time since the World Cup, saying he felt full support from his bosses despite the semi-final defeat. Finally, a committee of MPs is set to scrutinise the UK's poor record in the Eurovision Song Contest after its entry came last this year.
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- 10:13
- 10:51
Charged quote Air traffic control failure triggers travel chaos and review
Yes, this is the interim report. We're not expecting the full report for another 60 days. But it's looking into that huge meltdown of the air traffic control system, which left hundreds of thousands of passengers either with cancelled flights or they'd been delayed or they'd been rerouted to a different airport.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 10:51-10:55
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Charged quote Air traffic control failure triggers travel chaos and review
for being behind this latest outage. But Nats says that that is not the case. This is something that they've never encountered before. But remember, there was huge pressure on the boss of Nats, Martin Rolfe, to stand down. So far, he's not done that. It doesn't look like the government is putting pressure on him to do so either.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 13:08-13:14
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Contested quote Migrant pilot jailed for two years and three months over Channel crossing
to endangering another during a journey by sea to the UK after a crossing on the 23rd of July. Barnaby Papadopoulos has the latest. Well, this was an absolutely huge boat, really. It was carrying 160 people, as you said, which at the time when it crossed the Channel in July, that was the largest number of people
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 13:54-13:57
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Claim Migrant pilot jailed for two years and three months over Channel crossing
The boat lacked firefighting and navigation equipment, and one engine was not working.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 14:21-14:29
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Claim Migrant pilot jailed for two years and three months over Channel crossing
Since July, the record for boat crossings has been broken, with boats carrying up to 230 people.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 14:53-14:58
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Claim Migrant pilot jailed for two years and three months over Channel crossing
Atak paid 200 euros to people smugglers for the crossing.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 15:22-15:23
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Contested quote Migrant pilot jailed for two years and three months over Channel crossing
So that was all there in mitigation, but he still did receive quite a serious sentence, and that is reflective of the danger here. So he was essentially a people trafficker and trafficked at the same time. Yes, and when the Border Force came to intercept the boat, they found that he had removed a distinctive jacket
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 15:35-15:39
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Charged quote Migrant pilot jailed for two years and three months over Channel crossing
And legally, if you're controlling the boat, you are responsible for the safety of everyone on it. And the evidence from this case shows that these people were not safe at all. In fact, they were in an incredibly dangerous situation. The family of a Scottish man who's been detained in India for nearly nine years without conviction
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 16:01-16:04
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Contested quote Jagtar Singh Johal granted bail by Delhi High Court but remains in India
The 39-year-old was acquitted last year after being accused of financially supporting a terror group, but still faces federal charges. His brother, Gertpreet, told Sky News the British government has failed Jagtar. Hope is what keeps us going. I didn't have hope. I wouldn't be waking up in the morning and battling.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 16:33-16:36
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Charged quote Jagtar Singh Johal granted bail by Delhi High Court but remains in India
My kids were very young at the time, and I'll keep going until my brother's back home. Just because the government have failed him over the last nine years doesn't mean the campaign, the family, the community, reprieve, redress are going to fail him. We'll continue to battle until Jagtar is back home.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 16:54-17:04
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Charged quote Jagtar Singh Johal granted bail by Delhi High Court but remains in India
I think a point I just want to emphasise, Jagtar is a British born and bred national. He deserves to be back home. If the Indians had any evidence against him, they should have put it just and convicted him. New CCTV footage has been released of a teenage girl who's been missing for a week. Lilia went missing from her home in Bolton last Friday,
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 17:15-17:20
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Claim Tuchel says FA never doubted him after World Cup semi-final exit
England placed third at the World Cup, having been eliminated in the semi-final by Argentina.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 18:26-18:33
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Claim Tuchel says FA never doubted him after World Cup semi-final exit
Trent Alexander-Arnold and Cole Palmer were recalled to the England squad.
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 22:03-22:11
- 22:26 ~4 min without annotations
- 26:12 Story begins MPs launch inquiry into UK's poor Eurovision record
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Charged quote MPs launch inquiry into UK's poor Eurovision record
I'm joined now by Paul Jordan, media commentator on the Eurovision Song Contest. Paul, thank you so much for being with us. Do you welcome this intervention from MPs and the fact that they are going to be scrutinising why we are so rubbish? Good afternoon. Well, I have mixed feelings on it, really, because for years I've argued
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 26:33-26:41
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Contested quote MPs launch inquiry into UK's poor Eurovision record
weak performance or something else. I mean, what do you think is going on here? What's going so wrong for us? Well, I think it's to be welcomed that we are scrutinising this and culture does matter. Eurovision has been part of our popular culture now for 70 years. So I think we should be trying harder
Sky News, Sky News Today, 18 September 2026, 27:40-27:44
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