Zack Polanski has called for fossil fuel producers to be made to finance firefighting helicopters, following a series of recent fires across the country He also called on PM Burnham to stop new oil and gas drilling in the North Sea, including the Jackdaw & Rosebank fields off the Scottish coast

..the only ones awake in my house when I get home from Newsnight at quarter past midnight 💋

Prime Minister Andy Burnham will give all mayors of city regions in England a share of income tax revenue for the first time

President Trump says an agreement has been reached for the "complete disarmament" of Hamas in Gaza 
A senior Hamas official tells the BBC they have agreed to the plan 
US officials say Trump will be "very disappointed" if Israel does not withdraw as part of the agreement

#Newsnight LIVE 1030pm @BBCTwo @BBCNews Tonight President Trump has said Andy Burnham told him ‘he was going to open up the North Sea’ An early challenge for the UK PM on how to handle the US leader?

The Metropolitan Police has said it will be taking no further action after Green Party leader Zack Polanski re-posted a photo of a man wearing a T-shirt with an image of a guillotine and the words "we're only making plans for Nigel".

The Newcastle Chronicle is reporting that a Reform UK councillor has been charged after posting a grossly offensive comment on X referencing Nigerians Glenn Gibbins is due to appear before South Tyneside Magistrates next month having been charged with an offence under the Communications Act 2003

Andy Burnham has promised given a speech on adult social care in England, promising to "lift up" workers through pay and training On funding reforms, he said there would be "difficult decisions" but more could be done with existing resources

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Reform UK say they are reporting Green Party leader Zack Polanski to the police after he shared a post to his Instagram which included a photo of a man wearing a top featuring the name "Nigel" alongside an image of a guillotine

#Newsnight 1030pm LIVE • Andy Burnham promises a big transformation for the country. Can he achieve it? • new cabinet - familiar faces • what do PM Burnham’s priorities mean for YOU?

Changing of the guard 👇

#Newsnight LIVE 1030pm BBC 2 & BBC News • we decode Andy Burnham’s first speech as Labour leader • can he unite his party in a way Sir Keir Starmer wasn’t able to? • he promised the ‘most significant change moment in our politics for 40 years’. What does that mean for you?

Andy Burnham is the new leader of Labour 👇

#Newsnight 1030pm BBCTwo • Andy Burnham officially becomes Labour leader tomorrow - Labour MPs/peers are pinning all their hopes on him despite not really knowing what his plan is • I join Thames Valley Police on a raid into grooming gang suspects accused of raping girls in Oxford 20-25 yrs ago

Donald Trump has paid writer E Jean Carroll more than $5m (£3.7m) in damages three years after he was found liable for sexually abusing and defaming her in a civil case

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#Newsnight 1030pm LIVE LIVE LIVE Nigel Farage’s decision to resign as MP for Clacton With • Laila Cunningham from Reform • Hannah Spencer MP from the Greens • Fraser Nelson from The Times • Nick Watt, our Political Editor

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Has Nigel Farage broken parliamentary rules by failing to declare benefits provided by an ally who’s a convicted criminal? He says he hasn’t. The Sunday Times reports George Cottrell supplied security & social media staff who worked on Mr Farage's online content in the year before he was elected

Victoria Derbyshire presses Minister on whether £4.7bn is missing from defence plan funding #Newsnight www.youtube.com/watch?v=p3hLc--YPRE

Victoria Derbyshire challenges Minister on whether defence plan will "keep us safe"

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“Does Andy Burnham know he’s got to find £4.7bn in his first budget?” @vicderbyshire.bsky.social presses Defence Secretary Dan Jarvis MP on reports that £4.7 billion is still to be found for the Defence Investment Plan to be fully costed.

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#Newsnight LIVE 1030pm BBCTwo BBCNews • Andy Burnham promises to raise the living standards in ‘every postcode’ • We’ll discuss his vision, his diagnosis of problems the country faces, his plans to fix them & whether they cld work • Plus will voters give him the 10 years he says it will take?

Andy Burnham’s plan for the country 👇

Andy Burnham to give mayors more power in a 10 year plan They’ll be given greater control over social housing, welfare & education - with power over budgets currently spent by Whitehall He’ll also announce plans for a No 10 in Manchester

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Am standing in for Laura K tomorrow morning - join us live at 9am BBC 1

13 men who allegedly helped a rapist drug and sexually abuse his wife have been named They include a paramedic and a former chief executive of a lower league football club

Are we going to get a new PM? What do you want to happen?