Topic Lifecycle: Fading

This topic is fading from the news cycle. Coverage on Tuesday 27 October 2026 dropped to 127s, down 55% from its peak of 283s on Friday 23 October 2026.

Coverage trend (last 30 days)

How much coverage this topic got from each channel over the past month.

On screen

Stills are sampled automatically at 60-second intervals. Where shown, the still is the nearest available frame from the relevant broadcast segment and is included to show what was on screen during that part of the broadcast. A still may not correspond to the exact second of a quoted phrase.

ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 23 October 2026
ITV, ITV Evening News, 23 October 2026
Channel 5, 5 News Weekend, 25 October 2026
ITV, ITV Evening News, 27 October 2026

Recent stories

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Updated Tuesday 27 October 2026

Emerging

Birmingham Halloween house draws queues in £5,000 charity push

A Yardley home has become a walk-through Halloween attraction with 50 animatronic monsters, drawing about 800 visitors a night and aiming to raise £5,000 for a mental health charity.

1 channel

Updated Sunday 25 October 2026

Dormant

Danish artist carves one-tonne pumpkin with chainsaw for Halloween

An artist in Denmark has used a chainsaw to carve a giant pumpkin weighing more than a tonne into a scary mask, one of ten sculptures that will be fed to elephants at Copenhagen Zoo.

1 channel

Updated Friday 23 October 2026

Dormant

Trading Standards finds 10 of 11 Halloween costumes fail fire safety rules

Trading Standards found 10 of 11 sampled Halloween costumes bought online failed UK fire safety regulations, with many dangerously flammable and labels missing vital information.

1 channel

What was reported

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Timeline

Where this topic appeared. Cells show coverage time and are darker when there was more coverage.

Date Channel 5 BBC News BBC One BBC Two Channel 4 GB News ITV Sky News
Tuesday 27 October 2026 —————— 2m 7s 2.5% —
Sunday 25 October 2026 21s 16.7% ———————
Friday 23 October 2026 —————— 4m 43s 5.6% —