Evening briefing Thursday 5th November

0:28Hey, we're Nick and Jack, hosts of The Best One Yet. Behind every episode, there's research, That's G-O-O dot G-L-E slash Workspace with Gemini. This is Times Radio Evening Briefing on Thursday, the 5th of November. Russell Brand has been taken away from court in a prison van. It's after being remanded into custody following his conviction for raping a fan and sexually assaulting three women. The comedian's been warned he faces lengthy jail term when he's sentenced on Monday. Ben Taylor is the Sunday Times editor. The paper started investigating allegations against Brandt in 2019. We really need to think about the women who gave evidence both to us and The Times and Channel 4 in the years leading up to the publication and the documentary in 2023 and then the women who came forward to the police and after the publication and some of whom gave evidence at Southwark Crown Court.

1:20I cannot imagine how difficult it is for someone to have their lives examined all over again in court. Well, the Met Police says Brand is now under investigation for other allegations of rape made by two women. Times Radio Deputy Head of News is Alex Dibble. He has more details. We know that Russell Brand has already been questioned about them under caution by detectives in relation to these specific allegations. that files have been submitted to the Crown Prosecution Service in relation to both complainants and that further investigative work is currently being carried out with regard to them.

1:59Officers also made the point of saying that anyone else who wishes to come forward to speak to detectives or make a report that they should get in contact. The family of murdered student Henry Novak says there's no reduction in their suffering after his killer sentence was increased from 21 to 25 years. Vikram Digwa was originally jailed for life at Southampton Crown Court in June after stabbing the 18-year-old to death last December. The Bank of England's warning inflation could reach 5 % next year, well over double its target. It's raised the base rate of interest for the first time since 2023 to 4 % up from 3.75.

2:39The International Air Transport Association has urged authorities to find the origins of the hoax bomb threats targeting flights across Europe this week. No hazardous source suspicious materials have been found so far, despite a number of emergency landings and military escorts for some planes. At least 27 flights have been confirmed to have been targeted. The Sun's travel editor is Lisa Minow. So we've seen three into Bulgaria, so that's sort of all of those all going into Bulgaria, were Ryanair flights, but we've also seen Whiz Air flights, Fin Air flights, Aer Lingus flights. It doesn't seem to be there's any one particular airline being targeted.

3:17It seems to be very much a random thing. And you think it's the number of flights that are currently in the air above the skies of Europe. You know, it doesn't take a lot to have real impact when these kind of situations appear. And police have fired tear gas at protesters in the French city of Lyon. Hundreds of thousands of trade union members have joined nationwide strikes and demonstrations to demand higher wages. You can follow the Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online.

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