Topic Lifecycle: Peaking

This topic is currently peaking in attention. Broadcasters dedicated 314s of airtime to it on Thursday 22 October 2026, up 1.4x from the previous completed appearance.

Coverage trend (last 30 days)

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

On screen

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Channel 5, 5 News at Lunchtime, 22 September 2026
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 23 September 2026
ITV, ITV Lunchtime News, 22 October 2026

Recent stories

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Updated Thursday 22 October 2026

Emerging

Knitted speed camera George targets speeding in Fillongley

A Warwickshire knitting group has built a life-sized knitted speed camera called George to slow drivers in Fillongley, where a speed gun test found most drove around 30mph but some were faster.

1 channel

Updated Thursday 22 October 2026

Emerging

Knitted mannequins deployed in Warwickshire village to curb speeding

Villagers near Fillongley in North Warwickshire have placed knitted traffic mannequins beside a 30mph road to persuade drivers to slow down after repeated crashes.

1 channel

Updated Wednesday 23 September 2026

Dormant

AA: more than a third of young crash victims were not wearing seat belts

AA analysis of Department for Transport data shows more than a third of young people killed in car crashes over five years were not wearing seat belts.

1 channel

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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
Thursday 22 October 2026 —————— 5m 14s 6.0% —
Wednesday 23 September 2026 —————— 3m 48s 3.1% —
Tuesday 22 September 2026 17s 0.7% ———————