Good evening. Typhoon fighter jets were scrambled to intercept two Russian long-range maritime patrol bombers near the Shetland Islands this morning.
The RAF intercepted two Russian bombers flying north of Scotland within Nato’s northern policing area this morning, the Government has said. The incident came amid rising tension between Nato and Moscow over aerial incursions, with the Danish air force intercepting two Russian bombers near its airspace earlier on Monday.
You can follow the latest updates on our live blog. Meanwhile, two Russian nationals have been arrested in Poland for allegedly trying to recruit for the Wagner Group amid mounting unease over the mercenaries’ presence in neighbouring Belarus.
Police in Northern Ireland are asking for guns to protect themselves after the biggest security breach in the region’s history. Officers who claim their bosses have refused to issue them with handguns have said they have been left “defenceless”.
James Crisp reports that they spoke out after the Police Service of Northern Ireland declared a “critical incident” last week.
Almost half of voters – including one in five Leavers – believe there should be another Brexit referendum in the next decade, a new poll has found.
A YouGov survey revealed that 46 per cent of people believe there should be a rerun of the 2016 vote on the UK’s membership of the European Union in the next 10 years.
Jack Maidment reports that the poll, conducted between Aug 8 and 9, also suggested that almost half of people believe Brexit “is not done”.
Clapham | Two men were stabbed in a homophobic attack outside a nightclub in south-west London on Sunday. The victims, in their 20s and 30s, were outside the Two Brewers in Clapham High Street at around 10.15pm when they were targeted.
The bank commissioned the street art to promote its financial literacy campaign
The mushroom mystery gripping Australia began to unravel on Monday, with an amateur cook saying she accidentally put lethal fungi in a beef Wellington dish now linked to three deaths.
What Meghan’s anti-stress patch could tell us about her future plans
The Duchess of Sussex has been spotted wearing a ‘biosignal processing disc’ by NuCalm. What does it mean – and does it actually work?
American shoppers are shunning London in favour of European cities such as Paris, Milan and Madrid in the wake of Rishi Sunak’s controversial tourist tax, new data reveals.
Health | ‘I got rid of my visceral belly fat with the common sense diet’
A surgeon in Kabul | Five days, 13 lives saved – all watched by a Taliban sniper
Historian Tom Holland | ‘Today’s Christian culture is trying to purge itself of Christianity’
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