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An ITV Exposure undercover investigation reported further evidence of racism, bigotry and vetting failures in Reform UK. The bulletin said it had previously reported an aspiring MP calling for concentration camps to house migrants from small boat crossings. The programme featured a senior party figure, Gawain Towler, admitting he was racist every day at school and saying he held wrong views as a child, and it also included racist and misogynistic remarks by Reform candidates and councillors, including then-councillor Alan Feeney, who resigned and unreservedly apologised. Reform said there was no place for racism in the party and that it was investigating those who had clearly behaved inappropriately.

Police in Nottingham were searching for a man and a woman after an on-duty officer was shot before 5am; the officer was in hospital with a foot wound in a stable condition and a firearm was recovered from the scene, with the Police Federation praising his courage. In Canada, four service personnel died and dozens were injured in explosions at the CFB Wainwright army base in Alberta, with reports that a gas line was struck during a live-fire training exercise; Prime Minister Mark Carney called it one of Canada's worst peacetime tragedies. Microsoft pulled out of an AI data centre project in Essex over power supply concerns, and Pope Leo led his first Sunday prayers at the Vatican since surgery for lung cancer, delivering the Angelus blessing as crowds cheered.

President Emmanuel Macron addressed France after more than 2,000 people were arrested in riots that began as student protests over education standards and widened into cost-of-living protests. He acknowledged anger and shame, called for unity and promised the full force of the law against those involved, while France's prime minister said the cause had been politicised by a violent extreme left. The unrest spread beyond France, with similar scenes in parts of Europe, including a town hall fire in Limoges, water cannon and tear gas in Paris, looting and violence in Grenoble, Marseille and Lille, a targeted tourism office in Lyon, and protests in Milan, Tirana and Belgium.

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    Charged quote Reform UK suspends activist over Islam remarks as undercover film exposes vetting failures

    and all political parties have a few bad apples, is quite right. Because what the film shows is vetted councillors and Reform candidates all over the country, expressing toxic racist views, extreme and nasty misogynist views. And also, there is that extraordinary moment where an Undercover reporter is talking to a vetting officer

    ITV, ITV News, 18 October 2026, 7:30-7:38

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    Contested quote Reform UK suspends activist over Islam remarks as undercover film exposes vetting failures

    that they have more to do to get these people who express views of this sort out of the party. And we should be absolutely clear, Nigel Farage and Robert Jenrick have said there is no place for these sorts of bigots in Reform, and yet we have found them widespread. Now you only have to go back a few years to Labour, where they had a massive problem with anti-Semites in the party,

    ITV, ITV News, 18 October 2026, 8:32-8:37

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    Claim Brighton thrash Palace 5-0 as Arsenal reclaim second and Celtic hit seven

    Celtic defeated Hearts 7-1 at Celtic Park and moved four points clear at the top.

    ITV, ITV News, 18 October 2026, 14:43-14:52

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    Claim Brighton thrash Palace 5-0 as Arsenal reclaim second and Celtic hit seven

    Brighton defeated Crystal Palace 5-0 and moved to second in the Premier League.

    ITV, ITV News, 18 October 2026, 15:02-15:05

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    Claim Brighton thrash Palace 5-0 as Arsenal reclaim second and Celtic hit seven

    Arsenal beat Nottingham Forest 1-0.

    ITV, ITV News, 18 October 2026, 16:12-16:17

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