Two men have been re-arrested after an incident near RAF Fairford last month, counter-terrorism police have said.

A 24-year-old UK national, and a 25-year-old dual UK-Iranian national, are being held on suspicion of assisting a foreign intelligence service under Section 3 of the National Security Act 2023, with police saying the investigation relates to Iran.

Police had been alerted to three suspicious vehicles near the US airbase in Gloucestershire in the early hours of 27 September - a major incident was subsequently declared and dozens of homes evacuated.

Seven men in total have been arrested as part of the counter-terror police investigation.

Gloucestershire Police said it had received a call about "three suspicious vehicles" travelling towards RAF Fairford at 00:45 BST on 27 September.

A bomb disposal team was deployed to the village to examine a number of vehicles.

Petrol was found in three vans near the airbase and five men were arrested.

They had been initially arrested on suspicion of committing offences under the Explosives Act and then further arrested on suspicion of preparation of a terrorist act.

Police later said they did not find "improvised explosive devices".

The re-arrests announced on Tuesday relate to a 24-year-old man who was initially arrested on 27 September near the base and a 25-year-old who was arrested on suspicion of preparation of terrorist acts days later on 1 October in the borough of Westminster.

The other five men - who also include a 22-year-old British national arrested in Westminster on 6 October - remain on police bail.

The head of National Counter Terrorism Policing, Assistant Commissioner Laurence Taylor said: "This is very much a live investigation, and our evidence gathering continues, but at this time our position remains the same; we consider it highly likely that there is Iranian state involvement.

"Our investigators are continuing to examine what that level of involvement was and the ambition behind it."

The officer added that national security investigations can take time to progress due to their sensitive nature.

"Our specialist teams have been working tirelessly to interrogate the many lines of enquiry involved in this hugely complex investigation," he said.

Days after the incident, Prime Minister Andy Burnham told the BBC there were "strong indications" Iran had played a part in the incident.

He did not provide further details at the time.

Iran has previously denied any involvement.

RAF Fairford has been used as a forward operating location by the US Air Force (USAF) for decades.

In recent months, the US has flown B-1 and B-52 bombers from the base to the Middle East, after the UK approved a request for Fairford to be used for defensive strikes against Iran.

In the week after the incident, it emerged that the US had pulled its bombers out of the base and returned them to America.

US President Donald Trump said the aircraft were removed due to "some threats" to the base without giving specific details.

Vice-President JD Vance said it was done out of an "abundance of caution".

Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky has said US intelligence sharing on deadly Russian missile attacks "works now" after talks with President Donald Trump's special envoy Steve Witkoff.

The meeting in Oslo came after accusations by Kyiv that Washington was withholding key intelligence - a claim rejected as "scandalous" by US Secretary of State Marco Rubio.

Finnish President Alexander Stubb, who also took part in the talks, said "genuine progress" was made on proposals to achieve peace but gave no details and warned that patience would be needed.

Zelensky and his European allies said it was now up to Russia to respond to the proposals agreed in Oslo when Witkoff arrives in St Petersburg on Wednesday.

Witkoff was not present at the joint press conference after Tuesday's talks in the Norwegian capital. Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner, another key envoy, took part in the meeting via video link.

A US official later described the talks as "very productive and constructive", saying there was a "strong alignment at the working level" among the US, Ukraine and Europe on "the next steps".

The official confirmed that Witkoff is due to meet President Vladimir Putin in Russia tomorrow to discuss the proposals and that Kushner will again participate virtually.

Putin is yet to publicly comment on the latest developments, but Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov earlier said the Kremlin would listen to what Wiktoff would offer, while ruling out "any political concessions".

Relations between Ukraine and the US have soured in recent weeks to the extent that Trump has said it is time for Ukraine to get a new president, and most recently "for somebody else to negotiate on behalf of Ukraine".

Ahead of next month's US midterm elections, Trump has also sought to blame Ukraine's attacks on Russian oil refineries for fuel prices which have been rising since the start of the US-led war on Iran.

Speaking after Zelensky's news conference in Oslo, Trump again told reporters at the White House he wanted Kyiv to "make a deal". He said Russia would like to "get it done" and it was "time for Ukraine to end this war".

Putin launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, and Moscow currently controls about 20% of Ukrainian territory.

Russian drone attacks continued on Tuesday. Ukrainian officials said at least 10 people were killed - four in Kyiv and the capital region, another four in the eastern Donetsk region, and two in the central city of Dnipro.

Government failures in care settings created an environment that allowed Covid to spread like wildfire, an official inquiry has said.

The sixth report from the Covid inquiry said the care sector appeared to be "something of an afterthought" in the early stages of the pandemic and there was no "protective ring" put around homes as claimed by ministers at the time.

There were more than 43,000 recorded deaths involving Covid in care homes between March 2020 and July 2022.

The 287-page report also highlighted shortages of PPE for carers and criticised the way hospital patients were discharged into care homes.

It said limits on visits caused enormous harm to residents and their loved ones, though it blamed this on care homes themselves.

Around 1.5 million adults were either living in care homes or receiving support in their own homes when Covid hit.

Action to protect them came too late, causing devastating consequences, the inquiry said.

Chair Baroness Hallet said a lack of testing, PPE and pre-pandemic planning combined with policy decisions early on "created an environment in which the virus could spread like wildfire".

"At the critical early stages of the pandemic, not enough was done to protect those living and working in care homes," she said.

"The overriding focus of the UK government and devolved administrations was on protecting hospitals."

The US and Israel launched wide-ranging strikes on Iran in February, killing the country's supreme leader and sparking the ongoing Iran war.

The Strait of Hormuz, one of the world's most vital shipping lanes, has been effectively closed since then.

King Charles, Queen Camilla, Prince William and Catherine and Princess Anne were among the royals on duty at Windsor for the state visit.

It was the first state banquet for Prime Minister Andy Burnham, who was seated next to the Omani academic and novelist, Jokha Alharthi.

It was a table laden with elaborate candelabra and polished decorations, with five glasses per setting, and even the surface of the salt had an imprint of the cypher of King Charles.

The hot summer meant a bumper crop of pomegranates in the Windsor Castle gardens, and the fruits were placed on the table alongside the floral decorations.

The King's speech, delivered to 160 guests in English with some quotes in Arabic, expressed his approval that his son Prince William had worked on an expedition project alongside the Sultan's son.

"There can be few happier symbols of success than a living relationship being passed from one generation to the next," said the King.

Elon Musk has said he likes the idea of a merger of Tesla and SpaceX, two of his most notable companies, and it is under active consideration.

"Do I think it would be a good idea? Yes," Musk said during a call with financial analysts over the quarterly business results of SpaceX on Tuesday.

While Musk noted the certainty of such a merger should not be assumed, and it would need shareholders' support, he said special committees within both companies have been formed to examine the move.

"The special committees have not reached agreement on terms of any transaction and there's no guarantee that they will," Musk added. "But I do think there is a lot of merit to merging and a lot to be gained."

With Tesla valued roughly $1.5 trillion and SpaceX valued at $2 trillion, a combination of the two companies would mark one of the largest mergers in history.

Over the last year, Musk has taken to bringing more of his various companies under fewer banners. Before it went public earlier this year, SpaceX acquired xAI and X, the platform formerly known as Twitter, both of which Musk owned.

The recent launch of Terafab, a combined effort to manufacture computer chips between Tesla and SpaceX, was another signal that Musk sees his companies as potentially more effective when working together.

Musk said on Tuesday a full merger between the two companies would make sense for the work each is doing around chips, artificial intelligence, software and more.

Musk, who became the world's first paper trillionaire after SpaceX stock market debut earlier this year, said he is not included in either of the special committees considering the mega-merger.

He described himself as a "conflicted party" as the chief executive of Tesla and of SpaceX.

Even commenting on the possibility of a merger between the two companies, Musk compared to being like "tap dancing through a minefield".

He added a merger would ultimately be decided by shareholders. At least 50% of Tesla's shareholders would need to approve the merger, which Musk described as "quite a high hurdle to achieve".

Shareholders have supported Musk's desires before. Last year, a majority of investors in Tesla approved a compensation package for Musk valued around $1 trillion.

While Tesla is known as an electric car company, Musk has lately been shifting resources there to work around robotics.

SpaceX quickly outstripped Tesla on the stock market in terms of value when it made its stock market debut.

The company, which builds space rockets and Starlink internet satellites, is now expanding into offering cloud compute capacity for other tech companies, like Anthropic and Google.

That line of business is now the most profitable part of SpaceX, bringing in $7.5bn according to the latest quarterly results.

Conservative MP Alicia Kearns has raised concerns over whether Jonathan Powell, the National Security Advisor, can remain in his post following his wife's references to Palestine Action on social media.

The shadow home affairs minister has written to the prime minister questioning whether Powell's position is still tenable, despite the Metropolitan Police concluding no action was necessary over his wife's, Sarah Helm, comments.

A Downing Street spokeswoman told the BBC: "These views are held by an individual who does not represent the government in any capacity."

Posting on X last Thursday, Helm wrote: "God help us authors who support Palestine and Palestine Action," responding to a discussion about the author Sally Rooney.

The Normal People writer announced last week that her books will not be supplied to UK booksellers after she announced she would use her royalties to support Palestine Action.

The Met investigation into Helm's post found "it did not meet the criminal threshold" and the matter was dropped on Saturday.

But Kearns has written to Andy Burnham about the handling of sensitive national security information, asking whether the government has investigated the posts and whether he retains full confidence in his adviser.

She told the BBC: "We cannot have the NSA's wife tweeting about what decisions her husband has or hasn't made."

Palestine Action was proscribed as a terror organisation last year, making it a a criminal offence punishable by up to 14 years imprisonment to belong to or support the group.

An appeal against the proscription of Palestine Action is due to be heard by the Supreme Court next month, external, in a battle that has now gone on for more than year.

Earlier this month, the BBC was given rare access inside a Jewish school in Hertfordshire, where pupils and staff operate under tight security, amid heightened concerns about antisemitism.

Spencer Lewis, the executive headteacher of Yavneh College, said that security was an "innate part" of his role.

"When you come in in the morning, there are high gates, high fences, lots of security cameras. We have four full-time security staff. And it sort of just becomes part of what you do," he said. "We think about it a lot."

Staff and pupils told the BBC they have become so used to these measures that they barely notice them anymore.

Lock-in - or "in-vacuation" - drills for dealing with intruders have become second nature, even to the youngest pupils.

"It's a bit scary sometimes, but you know you're safe," said Livi, a Year 6 pupil.

"It's sad that we can't be equal to everyone else, but people don't like us just because of the way we are," added her classmate, Sadie.

A group of a dozen older pupils who spoke to the BBC said that while they feel safe inside school, hearing about antisemitic attacks in the UK, including reports of pupils at other Jewish schools being harassed on their commute and at sports fixtures, has left them feeling targeted.

Some said that they were reluctant to wear skullcaps or necklaces featuring the Star of David – a Jewish symbol – outside school.

"Other religions get to be out and wear their necklaces and be proud - I don't get why Jewish people can't do it as much," said Year 9 pupil Ilan.

In response to the recommendations, the government is also expected to encourage schools to adopt the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance (IHRA)'s working definition of antisemitism, although it cannot make it compulsory.

The definition is supported by mainstream Jewish organisations and has been adopted by 47 countries, including the UK, as well as most British universities.

However, some of the IHRA definition's examples of antisemitic behaviour have proven controversial.

The Board of Deputies of British Jews said that adopting the IHRA definition would provide schools with a tool "to deepen understanding of contemporary antisemitism".

In a statement, a spokesperson told the BBC: "Treating antisemitism in schools as a safeguarding issue will have the benefit of creating an explicit duty on all schools to address this as they would any other threat to children's safety, and will strengthen accountability."

He added: "We have advocated these measures be accompanied by other steps including improving education about Jewish life and ensuring schools maintain their duties in relation to political impartiality."

Bell, who is now vice-chancellor of the University of Sunderland, heard evidence from pupils, teachers, governors and parents across state and independent schools, as well as from community organisations.

The Department for Education has declined to comment before the review is published.

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A woman who says Russell Brand raped her at his home in London told police she "couldn't speak or breathe" during the alleged attack, a jury has heard.

The 51-year-old entertainer is accused of raping the woman in 2009 after meeting her at London's Hammersmith Apollo, where he had been performing as a stand-up comedian.

Brand faces seven charges in the trial in total - three counts of rape, three charges of sexual assault and one of indecent assault.

The allegations, made by six female complainants, span a 10-year period between 1999 and 2009. He denies all the charges.

In video evidence of her speaking to a police officer, the woman said she performed a sex act on Brand at the London theatre after being invited for drinks following the show.

She said she gave him her phone number, explaining she was "a massive Russell Brand fan" and a "massive comedy fan" at the time.

After that night, she said Brand messaged her and she went to his house in Hampstead knowing they would have sex.

But she said a consensual encounter became rape when Brand started having anal sex with her and ignored her pleas for him to stop.

She said when she arrived at his home, Brand told her she needed to have a shower "because my hair smelled funny". He then asked her to brush her teeth.

"I was trying to make a joke of what he was making me do", she said. "All of those things made me feel, 'I don't like this'."

The woman said a short while after getting on his bed, she was turned over. It was then she said she was allegedly raped.

She told police: "From the very moment it happened, I felt I had willingly gone there and from what his reputation was, what did I expect?"

She said Brand "hurt me and harmed me, and when I asked him to stop, he didn't". She added: "The horror in anyone that I told was not enough to make me believe I didn't deserve it."

The woman said she told friends and family afterwards, and went through sexual health tests - believing that she had contracted a disease from Brand.

Earlier on Tuesday, another woman who claims Brand sexually assaulted her described the alleged attack as "frenzied" and "violent".

That complainant alleges Brand assaulted her at the Choice FM radio studios in central London in the mid-2000s.

She said she came out of a small room in the building to find Brand outside.

"He said 'aye aye'," she told the jury. "He grabbed me by my face, started to kiss me, and when he was kissing me he started pushing me - his body against me."

The woman continued: "He was kissing me, it was very frenzied. There was no time for me to even understand what was going on.

"He was running his hands over my body and I had my back against the wall at that point."

From behind a blue screen, the woman described the kiss as "sloppy" and "very, very rough", when asked by the prosecution barrister about the alleged attack.

"His hands at the same time were all over me," she said. "He touched my bum, my breasts, his body was pressed up against me."

The woman said she pushed him off and swore at him.

She said there were several people with him who she claims didn't say anything about what happened after the alleged assault.

The woman - now in her 50s - said she had never met Brand before and that she believed he'd been in the building because he was on Channel 4 show Big Brother's Big Mouth.

She told the jury: "His whole body was pressed against me - the kisses were hard and sloppy and going down my neck.

"His hands were moving so much - the reason I used the word frenzied was because it was violent. He just wasn't stopping."

She said she felt "dirty" after the encounter and "never told anybody", adding: "I felt shocked and stunned, shaken."

The UK government is expected to announce a long-awaited decision on whether to approve the Jackdaw gas field in the North Sea.

It is widely believed in Westminster that Jackdaw will be approved but that a decision on the Rosebank oil field off Shetland will not yet be made.

The question of whether to approve the two sites has become hugely politically significant and has been delayed for several months.

Multiple Whitehall sources have told BBC News the government would make an announcement on Jackdaw on Wednesday morning with the Energy Secretary Miatta Fahnbulleh expected to address MPs in the afternoon.

Prime Minister Andy Burnham has spoken repeatedly of the need for a "flexible" approach to energy and is believed to be in favour of drilling more where licensing already exist in the North Sea.

Labour's 2024 manifesto pledged not to issue any new oil and gas licences in the North Sea but to honour existing ones such as Jackdaw.

The UK audit regulator has confirmed it is leading inquiries into accounting irregularities at Manchester City.

The Financial Reporting Council confirmed in a letter to the House of Commons business select committee it had taken over "regulatory consideration" of the case from the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales on 30 September.

No formal investigation has started, but the FRC is making inquiries into the case.

It comes after Manchester City were found guilty by an independent commission of all charges relating to breaches of the Premier League's financial regulations between the 2009-10 and 2017-18 seasons, including by artificially inflating the club's financial position by more than £900m. City are appealing the verdict.

The FRC has greater resources, and greater powers, to apply sanctions if it does find evidence of violations. It routinely oversees accounting standards at bigger institutions such as listed public companies, but not football clubs.

The FRC can look into the conduct of BDO, Manchester City's auditors, to ask whether the audit was in line with the rules.

It can also apply sanctions to individuals such as directors or employees of the Etihad club, if they are members of professional accountancy bodies.

BDO is the UK's fifth-biggest accounting firm, but claims to be a market leader in football, advising more Premier League and Championship clubs than any other firm.

The independent commission which looked into Manchester City found that the club gave a "misleading impression" of the scheme used to disguise the origin of shareholder funds injected into the club to its auditors, who were "unaware" of the scheme.

Manchester City have said they will appeal against the commission's decision, arguing that it contains "material errors, of law, principle and fact and is unsafe".

Liam Byrne, chair of the business select committee, called for greater powers for the FRC to look into similar cases.

He wrote on X: "The regulator's letter exposes gaps in its ability to compel evidence from the club and pursue directors who fall outside its disciplinary rules.

"This raises serious questions about the powers available to hold companies and directors to account.

"The government has a responsibility to explain why reforms to close these gaps were abandoned - and what will now be done to strengthen accountability."

BDO declined to comment.

"I heard this tremendous sound, like a hurricane. It was so overwhelming, I knew something was coming, but didn't know what.

Then this mass of black came crashing through the window, hurling me from the front of the classroom to the back.

I woke up to find the classroom was no longer the classroom. The roof had caved in on us, and we were completely buried.

I couldn't see my legs, I thought they had gone.

A pupil in front of me was trapped, and he had blood trickling down his head. Another one was trying to get through the roof to get help.

My head was cut open, and I couldn't move my hand as it was stuck in the cracked wall.

I pinched the hand of a child near me to see if it would move. It didn't.

Then I heard someone shout 'I'm going to smash the window' and saw my grandfather.

I started to cry and will never forget the look in his eyes knowing I was alive.

I'd broken my femur, my leg was just swinging and my shoes had gone.

'I'll buy you all the shoes you need,' my mum said as she greeted me outside.

My parents then ran off to find my siblings.

I was later told Carl and Marylyn had died, and all my friends had gone as well.

My life changed forever."

The hug that Trump envoy Steve Witkoff offered Volodymyr Zelensky ahead of this afternoon's talks in Oslo is unlikely to have dispelled the Ukrainian leader's misgivings about the current direction of US policy towards his war-ravaged country.

Zelensky posted a video of the moment on social media, with the message "Ukraine is working for peace. I thank our partners for their support!"

But given everything that's happened this month, does the Ukrainian leader still regard Donald Trump as a partner?

The two men have never been close – that much is obvious – but have they now fallen out once and for all?

Both in rhetoric and actions, the past ten days have seen evidence of a rupture as deep as any in their fractious relationship.

Just listen to the way they talk about each other.

"Zelensky's not a good guy for us to deal with," Trump told Newsmax last week.

The verbal assault has continued this week.

"Zelensky doesn't know what he's talking about," Trump told a reporter on Monday when asked what he thought of the Ukrainian leader's suggestion that striking a diesel deal with Russia put the US on the wrong side of history.

Such personal attacks are typical of Trump's sledgehammer approach to diplomacy. It's hard to know when to take them seriously.

In June, he lashed out at Israel's prime minister, saying Benjamin Netanyahu "has no f**king judgement". Four months later, he endorsed Netanyahu enthusiastically, calling him a "great warrior prime minister".

"Trump can always do another U-turn," says Ian Bond of the Centre for European Reform. "But this does look bad."

The Duke of Sussex has said he wants to "to work it out" and repair his relationship with his father and brother.

Speaking to GQ Magazine in New York, external, Prince Harry also said: "With everything else that's going in the world, the most important thing is to reconcile".

BBC culture and royal correspondent Noor Nanji breaks down what he said in the magazine interview and what it means for the royal family going forward.

Read more about what the prince said here.

More than four in 10 UK teenagers want more work experience opportunities at school, with a similar proportion calling for more guidance on how to apply for jobs, a survey for the BBC suggests.

The online survey, by Survation, external, asked 2,000 young people aged 13 to 18 about the world of work and the help they need to secure employment once they leave full-time education.

As part of the Teen Summit project by Radio 5 Live and BBC Bitesize, we followed four students from Newcastle - Param, McKenzie, Jasmine and Javaris - as they tried out roles for the first time as part of their work experience placements.

More on this story.

Last year the BBC spent £42m creating content for BBC Scotland. It still plans to create many of those shows for iPlayer - and BBC Two in Scotland will be reconfigured to deliver Scotland-only programming.

The part of BBC Three that commissions programmes will actually get more money to spend on creating content aimed specifically at 16-34s (with a core focus on the 16-25s).

This was the network that commissioned Normal People, Fleabag, Killing Eve - programmes of quality and wide appeal.

There's also been a recent announcement of commissions dreamt up specifically for YouTube - to reach those 16-24s who the BBC (and other public service broadcasters) find so difficult to lure to their own platforms.

Many of Radio 4 Extra's programmes will also still be on BBC Sounds. If you listen to the Daily Service, first broadcast in 1928 and the longest-running programme of its kind anywhere in the world, you will still be able to find it.

So these aren't major cost savings. The BBC would likely argue, when it comes to audiences, who are at the heart of everything, it is pivoting to find them where they already are.

What's been announced today is more about the direction of travel. It's about the continuing evolution of the BBC, a streamlining as audience habits change.

That doesn't mean it isn't painful to all of us inside the BBC. Job cuts are always difficult. In News, 100 more roles are being axed. That's on top of the 200 already announced. And the news division is still nowhere near its target of £51m of cuts.

And with only two fifths of the £500m of total savings now announced, there is still a very long way to go.

As a BBC user, you are going to hear much more about cuts in the coming months. Some will think that is a good thing as the BBC reflects the belt-tightening going on in most homes and companies across the UK. Others fear that the BBC's important role in public life is being chipped away.

There is a bigger fight going on here. The BBC is negotiating with the government over its future - and how it will be paid for. It won't harm the negotiations if it can show the corporation is being streamlined and made more efficient.

As long as it can also demonstrate that audiences aren't being left behind.

The Duke of Sussex has said he wants to repair his complicated relationships with his father and brother, in a magazine interview.

"Some people don't want it to work out. I want it to work out. With everything else that's going on in the world, the most important thing is to reconcile - that's the key point," Prince Harry told GQ in New York.

"Scars stick around forever. But what your perception is, and what your mindset is to those things that have happened, letting go of the past, that's something that I would encourage everybody to do," said Prince Harry.

Last week Prince Harry and Meghan carried out their first public engagement together since their return to the UK in the summer.

The GQ interview with Prince Harry was conducted last month and released as the Royal Family were on duty in Windsor welcoming the Sultan of Oman at the start of a state visit.

But a spokesman for the Sussexes said the interview was recorded in late September and it was the entirely the publishers' decision when to run it - and that nothing should be read into the timing.

The spokesman also said that the reference to "some people don't want it to work out" was not a swipe at his brother Prince William or any other member of his family.

Prince Harry and Meghan moved from the UK to the United States in 2020, stepping down as working royals in what was an acrimonious departure.

Harry's memoir, Spare, showed the depth of the family fall out and the damaged relationship with his brother William.

Despite Prince Harry now being physically nearer to his family in the UK, there hasn't seemed to be any more emotional closeness with his brother Prince William, and in this interview Harry seems to be open to reconciliation.

It was a message of wanting to build bridges that he had previously sent in a BBC interview in May 2025, when he had been living in the US.

Sir Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr have backed plans for a major new Beatles visitor attraction in Liverpool.

The development will see The Beatles Story move from Albert Dock to the former St John's Market site, alongside a new Yellow Submarine experience at St John's Beacon.

McCartney said he "can't wait" for people to be able to "step into our story", while Starr said: "Liverpool was, and still is, Music City".

The attraction will feature immersive technology, original artefacts and recreated sets charting the band's rise from post-war Liverpool to international fame.

Apple Corps Ltd, which manages The Beatles' creative and business interests, will take over operation of The Beatles Story in 2027 ahead of its relocation the following year.

A second Labour MP, Perran Moon, has been suspended over Covid loan repayments, after voluntarily referring himself for investigation.

Moon, the MP for Camborne and Redruth, is listed on Companies House as the co-director of a training company called Autoswot, external, which last filed accounts in June 2021.

Government Bounce Back Loans of up to £50,000 were made available to support small businesses during the pandemic, but a government report found the scheme was vulnerable to fraud and error.

In August, Labour MP Bayo Alaba was suspended after queries about a Covid-era loan, and a third MP, James McMurdock, quit Reform in 2025 after questions about eligibility for loans he received.

Bounce back loans worth a total of £46bn were issued when the scheme was launched in May 2020, making it the biggest of the government's pandemic-era loan schemes.

Each one had a 100% government guarantee, meaning taxpayers' cash was used to pay back banks if the companies failed, but the Covid counter-fraud commissioner later found total fraud and error estimated at up to £2.8bn to the public purse.

Autoswot had been set up in June 2019, a year before the loans became available, and at that time had forecast revenues of more than £200,000.

Moon stressed he had applied for the maximum loan of £50,000 within the rules, regularly seeking professional advice about its obligations, and would provide documents to the Labour Party investigation into the matter.

He said the loan was used to pay for "staffing and other essential business costs" during the pandemic and partial repayments were made until the company ceased trading in late 2022.

The BBC understands that Moon was repeatedly assured in writing by Companies House that no accounts needed to be filed after the company applied to be struck off, but that guidance was incorrect.

Moon, who was first elected in the 2024 Labour landslide following a career in communications and marketing, said the business folded due to unforeseen external market pressures and "despite the best efforts of staff".

He said: "In order for these matters to be looked into, I have voluntarily referred myself to the Labour Party's investigations process and will cooperate fully with this process.

"The loan application was made in good faith, and the information provided, including the company's turnover forecast, was accurate and properly based.

"I will continue to work hard every day representing my constituents while this party process is ongoing."

A Labour Party spokesperson confirmed Moon had referred himself for investigation.

"The Labour Party expects the highest standards from our elected representatives and we have robust processes in place to ensure those high standards are upheld," they said.

"We cannot comment further while the investigation is ongoing."

This is the second investigation the Labour Party has launched into the loans, with Alaba, the MP for Southend East and Rochford, also referring himself for investigation over loans made to a real estate company, Alaba Properties.

At the time, Alaba said: "There has been no attempt to avoid my financial obligations, and I am wholeheartedly committed to ensuring that the liability is met in full."

McMurdock, who now sits as an independent, was the first MP to be questioned over bounce back loans given to two fitness companies worth £70,000.

In 2025 McMurdock said all his business dealings had been compliant with the rules, adding that after taking "specialist legal advice" he had decided "to continue my parliamentary career as an independent MP".

A student who stabbed his housemate more than 30 times in a masked ambush has changed his murder plea to guilty.

Zack Coughlan, 23, attacked Jamie Collins, 21, in an alleyway near the garden of their home on 8 April and then left his body outside for eight hours before calling police.

A murder trial had been under way at Bristol Crown Court because Coughlan initially denied the charge, although he did admit killing Collins. He told jurors he stabbed Collins because he feared his housemate would kill him.

However, Coughlan, of Cleve Road, Filton, has now changed his plea to guilty and will be sentenced for murder on Wednesday.

Describing him as "a sensitive and caring young man", Collins' family said he had been "looking forward to finishing his journey" at the University of the West of England (UWE) and returning home to Swansea "in a matter of weeks".

"His passion for equality stood out to everyone who knew him. His unapologetic inclusivity will be his legacy for all of us. We know he was heading for a hugely successful future following his engineering and robotics degree," they added.

In a game of seven goals, none were scored by Rio Ngumoha - but this was his night.

The 18-year-old was simply a class apart from the rest in Liverpool's 4-3 win over Villarreal.

It is over a year since Ngumoha burst on to the scene for Liverpool with a memorable stoppage-time winner at Newcastle.

He has been in and out since then, impressing in flashes and even going on to make his England debut earlier this season.

But this performance was different, inspiring his team to a memorable comeback win in the Champions League.

By the time the teenager was replaced in the 74th minute, with Bradley Barcola taking over, the chants of "Rio, Rio, Rio" had already repeatedly rung around Anfield.

It was quite the sight to see Alisson embrace Ngumoha shortly after he was given Uefa's player of the match award.

"It's up there with one of the best [games] I've played. I enjoyed myself out there and the team helped me a lot," Ngumoha told Amazon Prime.

"Whenever I get the ball and there's an opportunity to go one versus one, or two versus one, I believe in myself to do it. I'll just keep going and be ruthless."

Liverpool were woeful for much of the first half as they trailed Villarreal by two goals, but Ngumoha took responsibility.

After Alexis Mac Allister pulled one back, Ngumoha found space to dink in a delightful ball that was met by Ronald Araujo for an equaliser.

Ater the break, Ngumoha - as he had done all evening - waltzed past Sergi Cardona to set up Mac Allister to give Liverpool the lead.

Phil Foden's magnificent man-of-the-match display in the Champions League against AEK Athens served as a reminder of the prodigious talent that the player still possesses.

After two disappointing seasons in which, by his own admission, he failed to hit the heights expected, there may be those who had forgotten what he can produce.

Being left out of the England squad for the World Cup last summer did not help, but he came into this season telling reporters he was looking forward to a "fresh start" under new manager Enzo Maresca.

Up until last weekend, that fresh start had been a slow burner with the low point of being sent off in the derby against Manchester United in September, before he sparked into life by netting against Ipswich on Saturday.

That was his first Premier League goal in 10 months and a strike that seems to have opened the floodgates, with the 26-year-old netting a superb hat-trick in the 5-1 hammering of Athens at Etihad Stadium on Tuesday.

"I enjoyed that a lot," Foden told TNT Sports. "The lads were great again. We showed determination again. I am a forward so I have to keep scoring and helping the team. It is good for my confidence."

Asked if he was returning to his best form, Foden said: "Slowly, but surely. Still got a long way to go, but I am going in the right direction. Scoring along the way definitely helps.

"I want to keep working hard and keep being the best I can for the manager and the team."

One-day international tri-series, Rawalpindi

Pakistan 302-9 (50 overs): Baker 3-65; Nawaz 79 (74), Arafat 59 (58)

England 215 (38.4 overs): Banton 57 (53), Arafat 6-40

Pakistan won by 87 runs

Scorecard

England began their wandering winter with a sloppy loss to Pakistan in the one-day tri-series in Rawalpindi.

In the opening match of five separate tours to four different countries on three continents, England's mistakes opened the door for Pakistan's Arafat Minhas to take advantage.

The all-rounder made a crucial 59 with the bat, then bamboozled England by taking 6-40 with his left-arm spin.

Asked to bat, Pakistan were 190-5 in the 37th over when diving wicketkeeper Jordan Cox put down Arafat on 12, one of three catches England dropped.

Arafat, alongside a powerful 79 from Hasan Nawaz, lifted Pakistan to 302-9.

Faced with making the second-highest score to win an ODI at the Rawalpindi Stadium, England made a rapid start to the chase, only for further errors to let Pakistan back in.

At 91-0, Ben Duckett top-edged a pull to depart for 45 and, crucially, Tom Banton was caught for 57 when he shovelled Arafat's long hop to mid-wicket.

Arafat's fine all-round performance continued with a beautiful delivery to bowl England captain Harry Brook for five and Naseem Shah got one to keep low to bowl Joe Root for 33.

When Cox was lbw and Jamie Overton holed out, both off Arafat, England were floored. They spluttered to 215 all out, losing their last seven wickets for 50 runs, capped by a calamitous run out of Gus Atkinson.

Pakistan have two wins from two in the tri-series and are already on the brink of the final, while England next meet Sri Lanka at the same ground on Thursday, with both sides looking for their first victory.

"You're dead right. I can't argue with that."

Michael Carrick's response was to the point.

The question that prompted it in his pre-match news conference at a rain-lashed Giuseppe Sinigaglia stadium in Como concerned his side's failure to keep clean sheets.

It was put to Carrick that it would help if United could manage some shutouts, and he was asked if he had figured out the problem.

United have kept the opposition out just once in 10 games this season, against Azerbaijan champions Sabah FK last month.

"There's definitely parts of our game we have to improve to make things easier. I am fully aware of that," said Carrick, whose side take on Como in the Champions League on Wednesday.

The problem goes further than this season though.

They managed six clean sheets in Carrick's 17 matches in charge last term, including two in their final three games. Prior to that they had only managed two all season, part of an overall tally of nine in 63 games under his predecessor Ruben Amorim.

It is an extreme comparison given solid defence was the bedrock of Arsenal's Premier League title triumph, but the Gunners, who face Bayern Munich in Germany on Wednesday, have recorded seven clean sheets in 11 matches this season.

An emotional Mark Allen said retiring from snooker is "something I have been contemplating for a while" following his first-round loss to Jordan Brown in the Northern Ireland Open.

Allen was beaten 4-2 by fellow Antrim man Brown in his first event since losing to Wu Yize in heartbreaking fashion during the semi-finals of the World Championship in Sheffield in May.

The former world number one said showing up to play his match against Brown was an "achievement" after a "really difficult" period in his life while he took a break from competitive action.

"I think if I hadn't have been playing Jordan, I probably would not have played," Allen told BBC Sport NI after his defeat at the Waterfront Hall in Belfast.

"I felt like I did not want my last match to be remembered for that semi-final in Sheffield.

"I thought it would be a bit of nostalgia to go out playing Jordan in the Waterfront where it all started in 2005 and that would be a more fitting end if I do call it a day."

Asked if he is considering drawing the curtain on his career, he replied: "Yeah."

Speaking earlier to TNT Sports, Allen said he was in a "bad place at the minute", adding he does not "see a future with snooker in it".