Evening briefing Thursday 30th October

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0:35This is the Times evening briefing for Thursday 30th October. Downing Street says new information on the Chancellor's rental arrangements has come to light. It's been passed to the Prime Minister and his independent ethics advisor, but a spokesman guaranteed Rachel Reeves will still deliver the budget next month. The Conservatives are calling for an investigation into the failure to obtain a£900 licence to rent out her South London home. Here's Times Radio's political editor Anna Mihailova. Sir Laurie Magnus, the Prime Minister's ethics advisor, has now opened an official probe into this issue.

1:08Some new emails have emerged from Rachel Reeves' husband. What this means is this matter is very much not closed like Downing Street was really hoping yesterday. I understand that these emails are going to be published later today. Meanwhile, Rachel Reeves' tenants could be entitled to more than£40 ,000 in compensation over the error. Those who fail to get a licence face fines as well as rent repayment orders. Prince Andrew could be facing a private prosecution over allegations of sexual assault, corruption and misconduct in public office. The move by campaign group Republic comes amid renewed controversy over the prince's links to the pedophile financier Jeffrey Epstein.

1:46Graham Smith is the group's chief executive. The debate over the last two weeks has been absolutely extraordinary that serious accusations are being levelled at Andrew and the whole conversation, should he live in that big house or that big. How should he have that royal title or that royal title? And someone somewhere needs to say, well, hang on a minute, there are serious accusations that need to be addressed. Now, clearly there is a large consensus that he's done something wrong or they wouldn't be talking about some kind of punishment. The King's brother denies all of the allegations against him.

2:15A man jailed for burgling Damien Hirst's art studio was caught after police tracked his GPS ankle tag. Liam Middleton Gomm has been sentenced to nearly three years in prison for stealing £5 ,000 worth of goods. He was wearing the tag as part of license conditions imposed after dozens of earlier burglary convictions. A police officer who blackmailed a suspect she had arrested has been jailed for more than three years. Marie Thompson posed as a pedophile hunter and using a fake email address demanded thousands of pounds from a man charged over possessing indecent images. The South Yorkshire PC is currently suspended from the force.

2:49Israel says the bodies of two more deceased hostages have been handed over by Hamas. The group says efforts to locate and retrieve them have been hampered by a lack of equipment, but Israel accuses the militants of deliberately stalling. And a group of African grey parrots have become famous for their foul mouths. We will for the first time have one of the famous swearing parrots online. See what I mean? Steve Nicholls is CEO of Lincolnshire Wildlife Park. He told Times Radio that blooming parrots just won't stop swearing. I thought it was volunteers swearing, and I put my head through to actually tell them to keep quiet and realised there was nobody in there, they were just parrots.

3:30And then I set my camera up and a few little bits of recording equipment, and it sounded like an old working men's club. Once they started, they just didn't stop. You can follow The Times News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio Online.

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