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Andy Burnham made his first foreign trip as Prime Minister, to Kyiv. ‘Despite Russia’s outrageous threats to my country,’ he said, ‘we will continue our support for Ukraine.’ He said he would supply information about British-made components of the Anglo-French Storm Shadow missiles to help Ukraine build its own version. Ukraine gave Britain a trove of secret battlefield intelligence. Andrey Kelin, the Russian ambassador to Britain, had, it was found, left in July and not been replaced. Iranian hackers shut down a British power station for four days. New 10p coins went into circulation, with the King’s head and a capercaillie as tails.
Seven people were killed when a car carrying five young men went the wrong way down the dual carriageway of the A66 and crashed into a police car carrying two policemen near Middlesbrough. Four of the dead youngsters had 37 previous convictions between them. Seventeen people were arrested as part of the investigation into events before the crash. The rail operator CrossCountry cancelled almost all its services for a day after a power cut at its control centre. A scheme to confine serious sexual and violent offenders to areas a few miles wide after leaving prison will be launched in October, Alex Norris, the Justice Secretary, said. Leicestershire, Norfolk and Suffolk police confirmed they had issued more than one warrant card to officers who said they identified as both male and female. In one week, 250 migrants arrived in three boats.
The price that households pay for energy will rise by 4 per cent on average, from £1,663 to £1,723 a year from 1 October, even after the government’s VAT cut on electricity. Mr Burnham refused to rule out tax rises in October’s Budget. Mayors in England will be given powers to overrule local councils on planning decisions such as those on sites with more than 150 homes. The government would spend £1 billion a year on building 7,000 social or affordable houses a year for a decade. Peter Howell, the architectural historian, died aged 85. The mother, father and two daughters of the British Palestinian El-Khawas family from London died after getting into difficulty in the sea off Shoreham in West Sussex. Plans to turn Old College at Aberystwyth into a cultural hub and hotel in a £53 million renovation were halted pending a review. The Duke and Duchess of Sussex suddenly said they were returning to Britain and sending their children to school here. A cat called Ginge which went missing from Sunderland last year was found in a feral colony in Leeds.
Abroad
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine said that holding elections while the country was at war could destroy it. The proposal had been made by the sacked former defence minister Mykhailo Fedorov. A double-tap strike by two successive Russian drones killed 16 in a shopping centre in Kryvyi Rih, Ukraine. Ukraine said it had struck an oil refinery in Russia’s Samara region. Ukraine hit logistics facilities belonging to Ozon, Russia’s second-largest online retailer, in the southern regions of Krasnodar, Dagestan, Stavropol and Adygea. John Ratcliffe, the head of the CIA, visited Moscow for unannounced talks. A British man, Bradley Townsend, 33, was found to have been killed in Ukraine in June while fighting for Russia.
The United States announced wider economic sanctions against Iran and its trading partners, including China. Scott Bessent, the US Treasury Secretary, called it ‘the single greatest financial offensive ever’ against Iran. Trade talks between the United States and Canada collapsed, with the United States saying it was imposing 50 per cent tariffs on various goods and Canada retaliating. Dolly Parton, the country singer, died aged 80.
The founder of Evergrande, the collapsed property giant, was sentenced in Shenzhen, the city bordering Hong Kong, to life in prison. The trial in Washington, DC, of Abu Agila Mas’ud Kheir Al-Marimi, accused of building the bomb that destroyed an airliner over Lockerbie in 1988, was postponed to January in light of new evidence. Three theme parks, one with a Manga theme, will be built near Paris through investment by Saudi Arabia, it was announced after a state visit to France by Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman. Gunmen attacked the villages of Dekara, Gidan Zana, Sabon Gida and Masaka in Niger State, Nigeria, and abducted perhaps 500 people. In Guinea, a mound of rubbish at a waste site collapsed onto houses in Conakry and killed at least 30. CSH
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