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| |  | Caroline McClatchey 30 August 2023 | | | We're in Russia for our top story this morning, with a drone attack damaging military planes miles away from the conflict in Ukraine. We also hear from three women who have waived their right to anonymity to speak out on behalf of rape victims. Scroll down for a reflective piece on Seamus Heaney, 10 years after the poet's death, and did Banksy design a new traffic cone fit for military royalty? | | | |
 Image: Telegram Attack on airport damages Russian transport planes Russia says it has come under a wave of drone attacks from Ukraine, with several regions targeted. The worst appears to have been in the north-western city of Pskov, where an airport was hit. Two military cargo planes are reported to have burst into flames. Pskov, close to Russia's border with Estonia, is hundreds of miles from the war zone in Ukraine. The authorities said most of the other drones were shot down. In recent weeks Ukraine has increased its use of attack drones to strike targets inside Russia but it rarely comments on them. In Ukraine, our correspondent Quentin Sommerville has been hearing about and experiencing first-hand the increasingly sophisticated drone attacks raining down in the country’s east. | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
| BEWARE OF THE FAKE WATCHDOG The UK's financial regulator has warned of an increasing number of fraudsters pretending to be the watchdog. The Financial Conduct Authority said the impersonators often told people they were owed compensation and then asked for bank details or a processing fee. Get more details and advice on how to detect scams. | | | |
| | We can avoid flight chaos in future - air traffic boss It seems a piece of flight data which could not be processed is to blame for the major disruption to air travel on Monday. It left thousands of passengers unable to travel and many are still in the wrong place. It is expected the backlog will cause continued delays and cancellations. The head of National Air Traffic Services, which controls most aircraft in UK airspace, has apologised and said the system failure was due an "incredibly rare" technical fault. Martin Rolfe told the BBC that if it happens again, "we can resolve it very, very quickly". | | | | | |
| Thousands lose benefits after tax credits overpaid At least 800,000 households on universal credit received less money last year because they were previously awarded too much in tax credits, the BBC has found. With about 1.5 million people set to be transferred on to universal credit from September, campaigners fear many more households will be alerted to debts they did not know about. Get the details. | | | |
Essential read | | | | | Three women raped by the same man want to reform how victims are treated in courts. | | | | | | | |
|  Image: Pacemaker The enduring inspiration of Seamus Heaney On this day 10 years ago, one of Ireland and the world's most famous poets, Seamus Heaney, died at the age of 74. But how is he viewed in 2023? We asked six people - from teenage writers to teachers to poets - to dig into the Nobel Prize winner's legacy. | | | | | |
|  | | BBC Sounds New York's carpenter to the rich and famous reflects on his career. | | | | |  | | BBC iPlaYER Ninety years on from the first "sighting", here's 10 times Nessie made a splash. | | | | | | | |
| Stranded travellers 'out of pocket' and Ulez revolt "Not a penny to compensate air chaos victims" is how the Daily Mail sums up a second day of delays and cancellations in the UK following an air traffic control glitch. The Daily Mirror focuses on those who have been caught up in the "fiasco", with many paying for new flights and hotels. The i newspaper says some Britons are stranded abroad until next week and many feel "abandoned" by UK airlines. The Times says about 250,000 people have had their flights from or to Britain cancelled over the past 48 hours. Protesters opposed to the expansion of London's Ultra Low Emission Zone (Ulez) also make the front pages, with London Mayor Sadiq Khan the focus of their "wrath". See what else is on the front pages. | | | |
| | A new cone on the Duke of Wellington's head in Glasgow has sparked speculation that it is a parting gift from Banksy. The graffiti artist staged his first exhibition in 14 years at the city's Gallery of Modern Art, the entrance to which is presided over by a statue of the duke on a horse. The duke is never without a traffic cone but the latest one is rather more ornate than the bog-standard ones which normally adorn his head. See what it looks like. | | | |
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