Morning briefing Friday 9th October

0:00Ever wondered if you have what it takes to be a Formula One driver? I'm Andy Jay and in our final episode of the Business of F1, 2009 world champion Jenson Button shares his insights from the cockpit. How is trust built within a team? How do you cultivate the resilience required to make race winning decisions at speed? Find out what business can learn from the high pressure of the track by listening to the Business of Formula One brought to you by PwC.

0:32This is the Times Radio News briefing for the morning of Friday, 9 October. Labour have held Holborn and St Pancras, holding off a threat from the Green Party leader Zak Polanski. Zagal Abdiwali won more than 12 ,000 votes, about 4 ,000 more than Polanski. Abdiwali succeeds the former Prime Minister, Sakhir Starmer, as the MP for the North London constituency. The seat has long been a safe one for Labour since 1983, but the Greens hoped to ride their momentum from local elections earlier in the year to secure their leader a seat in Westminster. In her acceptance speech, the new MP for Holborn and St Pancras thanked the community.

1:08I'm deeply honoured that our community in Camden has trusted in me to be the next member of parliament for Holborn and St Pancras. From the bottom of my heart, I want to say thank you. And whether you vote for me or not, my commitment to this community runs deep. I promise that I will work every day to do whatever I can and all I can to improve your life and to improve the life of you and your family. And she also went on to say, I hope this moment also says something about who gets to belong. For people who look like me, I hope they see themselves reflected in this place and know that their path too belongs here.

1:48This is Camden and this is Britain. Meanwhile, Zach Polanski has insisted he's not going to resign despite his by-election defeat. Asked by a reporter at the count if he planned to step down as leader of the Green Party, he said he was staying because that's what leaders do. The man accused of murdering former minister Anne Whittacombe is appearing at the Old Bailey today charged with terrorism offences. 28-year-old Joshua Carey of Rotherham is alleged to have carried out online reconnaissance on prominent figures, including an attempted break-in at the home of Nigel Farage. And breakthrough treatments are helping men with incurable prostate cancer live longer.

2:27Research by the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine reveals the proportion of patients dying within three years of an advanced diagnosis fell from 56 % in 2015 to 47 % in 2022. experts say the improvement is being driven by modern chemotherapy and novel hormone therapies now available on the NHS. Dr Hayley Luxton is head of research impact and engagement at Prostate Cancer UK and told us that the results are positive based on a large research study. These men would have been tracked over a number of years and these are large numbers we aren't talking about a few men, we're talking about over 46 ,000 men.

3:08So this data is very robust because the numbers are big. We're talking about lots of men that have been studied and tracked. You can follow the Times Radio News Briefing on Spotify and listen live to Times Radio online.

3:35Ever wondered if you have what it takes to be a Formula One driver? I'm Andy Jay, and in our final episode of the Business of F1, 2009 world champion Jenson Button shares his insights from the cockpit. How is trust built within a team? How do you cultivate the resilience required to make race-winning decisions at speed? Find out what business can learn from the high pressure of the track by listening to the Business of Formula One, brought to you by PwC.