Morning briefing Tuesday 6th October

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1:24This is the Times morning briefing for Tuesday 6th October. Donald Trump says a specific threat prompted a decision to move American bombers away from RAF Fairford in Gloucestershire. They didn't fly out by accident. No, but there were some threats. And rather than tempting the enemy, we'll capture the enemy and beat the enemy. But why should we leave them there? So we moved them around a little bit, not very far. The site was at the centre of a suspected terror plot last month. It contradicts comments made by the Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who previously called it a routine rotation. Andy Burnham is considering delaying a decision on when the government will increase defence spending until the autumn of next year.

2:09The government was expected to publish its spending review this spring, setting out a timetable to raise military funding to 3 % of GDP up to 2030. At their party conference, the Tories will pledge to invest£10 billion in a new Iron Dome defence system aimed at protecting Britain and its overseas bases in the event of a future military attack. Lord Dannett is former head of the British Army. The longer we delay, then the longer the Ministry of Defence cannot take sensible decisions and let contracts to industry to produce the equipment and the munitions and the things that we absolutely need. And so every delay is standing this country into greater, greater danger.

2:53Several hospitals in Siberia have been placed under quarantine after the death of a laboratory worker who was reportedly exposed to highly contagious pneumonic plague. Local media said Darya Shepilovar died in the early hours on Friday morning, days after accidentally breaking a test tube containing the pathogen. Dr Sarah Pitt is president of the Institute of Biomedical Science. Only people who are authorized to go into that room would be allowed in and they would be specially trained and they'd have special PPE and so on. So this sort of thing doesn't normally happen. The best-selling author and former politician Geoffrey Archer has died at the age of 86.

3:35He sold more than 300 million books over a career that spanned five decades. His political career, though, was marked by scandal. His publisher, HarperCollins, said the author died suddenly and peacefully at home on Monday. Times Radio's Adam Bolton attended some of his famous parties. An invitation that was very closely guarded, and he would actually police his own parties and sort of stand on the staircase and tell people that he hadn't invited them and he wouldn't let them in. And when he left, he gave everyone a whole cheddar cheese. And there's more on these stories throughout the day on Times Radio.

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