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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.
