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Sky News Today with Jayne Secker
Thursday 8 October 2026 · 16:00 BST · 30m · 9 stories · 15 annotated moments · 22 of 30 min on news stories (75%)
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Two Latvian men, aged 36 and 32 and resident in the UK, were arrested at RAF Molesworth in Cambridgeshire on suspicion of an offence under the National Security Act after allegedly breaching the perimeter fence late the previous night; police said an abandoned car near the base was being analysed, two addresses in Peterborough were being searched, and counter-terror police were investigating. Thames Valley Police accepted that search warrants used to raid two properties of Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor, at Sandringham and Royal Lodge in Windsor, were unlawful; the High Court heard this followed a legal or procedural error connected to warrants issued around his February arrest on suspicion of misconduct in public office, which he denies, and police said their investigation continues while proceedings over seized material go on. Evan Gershkovich told Sky News of the moment he learned he would be freed in a prison swap after 16 months of a 16-year sentence, saying he believed Vladimir Putin had been misled by officials into thinking he was a spy; he described falling onto a chair when his lawyer told him and said the three weeks before the swap felt extremely long. A serving Royal Navy member, 24-year-old Teddy Young, appeared at Westminster Magistrates Court charged with two national security offences alleged between November 2024 and May 2025, accused of preparing and gathering sensitive classified information that could help a foreign state, understood to be Russia; he was remanded in custody and due to appear again on 16 October.
Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband visited President Zelensky in northern Ukraine, where at least 22 people including five children were killed in overnight Russian strikes on a residential building, as the UK announced further sanctions on Russia's shadow fleet, oil companies, crypto and war financing, plus more humanitarian and energy support; at least 30 people were killed in Kramatorsk after Russian missiles hit two buses and public transport in the region was halted, while in Kyiv four people were killed and 12 injured in overnight attacks. Police investigating a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford bailed a seventh suspect, a 22-year-old British national arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts, after six others were arrested and bailed when three suspicious vans were stopped in a village near the Gloucestershire air base last month. Russia denied that a second case of an infectious disease had emerged after 28-year-old laboratory worker Daria Shiblova died on 2 October from what authorities said was pneumonia, amid pressure to rule out plague. Lawyers for American death-row inmate Christa Pike, 50, said she was waking up and walking after Tennessee authorities tried to execute her on 30 September following 30 years on death row. The US charged former Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro with torture, adding to an earlier charge of conspiracy to send cocaine into the US, over alleged human rights abuses during his time in power. Rescue teams in Istanbul tried to reach people trapped after a seven-storey building partially collapsed before dawn, with a six-year-old among at least seven still in the rubble and fears the building could collapse further.
Andy Burnham told German Chancellor Merz in Berlin that he wanted to bring the UK closer to Europe, discussing shared security threats and economic protection; he described closer ties as deeper industrial collaboration in quantum, space, AI and defence, offered Germany involvement in the next-generation fighter aircraft project, and cited the ratified Kensington Treaty as the first UK-Germany treaty since the Second World War. A special report examined what would happen if Britain ran out of gas as winter approached and energy reserves hit their lowest in decades, using a previously unseen planning exercise to show who would be cut off first and how emergency decisions would be made, including exports to mainland Europe going first and power stations next. A coroner ruled that three sisters who drowned off Brighton earlier this year took their own lives; Jane Adetoro and Christina and Rebecca Walters, all in their 30s, lived together in Uxbridge, and the inquest heard Christina had searched for suicide and had depression, that they visited their late mother's grave in Birmingham before travelling to Brighton, and that it was unclear how they entered the water, with their father paying tribute in court.
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Claim Two Latvian men held under National Security Act after RAF Molesworth breach
Two men were arrested at a Cambridgeshire RAF base under the National Security Act, after initially being held on suspicion of trespass and criminal damage.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 1:31-1:38
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Claim Two Latvian men held under National Security Act after RAF Molesworth breach
Two men were arrested at a Cambridgeshire RAF base under the National Security Act, after initially being held on suspicion of trespass and criminal damage.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 2:31-2:41
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Claim Two Latvian men held under National Security Act after RAF Molesworth breach
Counter Terrorism Policing said the incident did not appear to be connected to events at RAF Fairford the previous week.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 3:24-3:31
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Claim Evan Gershkovich tells of release and says Putin was misled about him
Gershkovich said he learned about the prisoner swap three weeks before his release and that the wait felt like three months.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 10:51-10:54
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Claim Evan Gershkovich tells of release and says Putin was misled about him
Gershkovich said he learned about the prisoner swap three weeks before his release and that the wait felt like three months.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 11:11-11:16
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Charged quote Royal Navy sailor Teddy Young remanded in custody on spying charges
Teddy Young, 24 years old, a serving member of the Royal Navy, Navy only spoke really to confirm his name and his date of birth. But as a serving member of the Royal Navy, he is facing two very serious national security charges alleged to have happened, the offences, the alleged offences, between November 2024 and May 2025.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 11:54-11:58
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Claim Miliband meets Zelensky in Kyiv as Russian strikes kill dozens
UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband met President Zelensky in Ukraine.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 13:45-13:49
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Claim Miliband meets Zelensky in Kyiv as Russian strikes kill dozens
The UK announced 31 new sanctions targeting Russia, including measures against 23 individuals and 8 ships, shadow fleet vessels, Kremlin disinformation networks, and perpetrators of civilian torture and child indoctrination.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 14:19-14:32
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Charged quote Miliband meets Zelensky in Kyiv as Russian strikes kill dozens
I'm here to say we are not just going to say words of support, we are going to offer deeds of support as well. So today we're announcing more sanctions on Russia, on the war machine of Putin, on the shadow fleet, on the oil companies, on the crypto, on the financing of the war. We are here to announce more humanitarian support.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 14:23-14:28
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Charged quote Miliband meets Zelensky in Kyiv as Russian strikes kill dozens
we are going to offer deeds of support as well. So today we're announcing more sanctions on Russia, on the war machine of Putin, on the shadow fleet, on the oil companies, on the crypto, on the financing of the war. We are here to announce more humanitarian support. We are here to announce more support for energy.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 14:28-14:32
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Charged quote Miliband meets Zelensky in Kyiv as Russian strikes kill dozens
And in the capital, Kyiv, four people were killed and 12 injured in overnight Russian attacks. Drones hit a number of residential buildings, with the youngest child killed being just one years old. The seventh man arrested by police investing a suspected terror plot near RAF Fairford has been bailed.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 15:03-15:06
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Claim UK and Germany ratify Kensington Treaty and deepen security cooperation
The prime minister confirmed he asked Chancellor Merz how the UK could get closer to the EU.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 17:02-17:08
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Claim UK and Germany ratify Kensington Treaty and deepen security cooperation
The UK and Germany ratified the Kensington Treaty, described as their first bilateral treaty since the Second World War.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 18:02-18:08
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Claim Burnham denies downplaying Manchester City verdict as clubs criticise remarks
Andy Burnham said he was asked about wider investment and that football issues should be separated from wider investment.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 18:58-19:06
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Claim Burnham denies downplaying Manchester City verdict as clubs criticise remarks
Andy Burnham said he was asked about wider investment and that football issues should be separated from wider investment.
Sky News, Sky News Today with Jayne Secker, 8 October 2026, 18:58-19:06
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