Daily Inshorts - 01 October 2025

Daily Inshorts - 01 October 2025

Auto: NewsAPI + RSS fallback. Updated hourly.

Farage doesn't believe in Britain, Starmer tells Labour conference

The PM vows to fight Reform UK's "politics of grievance" in a speech to Labour's annual conference.

Starmer had to show his critics he can take on Farage

With this speech, the prime minister reminded his internal critics who won Labour's whopping majority in the election 15 months ago.

I went undercover as a cleaner at a failing care home. Here's what I witnessed

Catriona MacPhee worked in a Highland care home for seven weeks as part of BBC Disclosure investigation.

Anne visits Ukraine to support children 'traumatised' by war

She meets children displaced from their families and visited a memorial for young people killed during the war.

Bowen: Momentum is the strength of Trump's Gaza plan, but lack of detail is its weakness

The plan is a significant moment - but it lacks the nuts and bolts that determine whether diplomatic agreements hold together, or don't.

Morning Digest: Nine workers killed in construction site accident at Tamil Nadu’s Ennore; Kargil-based group demands impartial judicial investigation into civilian killings in Ladakh, and more

Here is a select list of stories to start the day.

Speculating on ‘Kathipara’

‘The entire area has a lot of streets that have Army connotations — Lashkarkhana (a camp), Asarghana (Afsar Khana or Officer’s Enclave), Butt Road (there was a rifle practice butt here), Magazine Road, North Parade, etc.’

When 50 people died in two Sunday stampedes in Chennai

The deaths of 50 people in two stampedes, both of which occurred on Sundays, in Chennai, 20 years ago, would illustrate how lessons in crowd management are rarely learned

Collector inspects construction of Government Headquarters Hospital, bus stand in Tindivanam

Two police constables arrested for raping young woman in Tiruvannamalai

The 19-year-old survivor, who hails from Andhra Pradesh, was picked up by the duo after stopping the truck she was travelling in for checking documents