Three different train lines have been disrupted because of damage to the overhead electric wires between Shepherd’s Bush and Watford Junction. Trains running between these stations may be cancelled, delayed or terminated and started back from Shepherd's Bush. The operators affected are Avanti West Coast, London Northwestern Railway and Southern, with disruption expected until the end of the day.
Spain's Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez has said he will suspend public duties to "stop and reflect" on whether he wants to continue in frontline politics, in a letter shared on his X social media acccount. The shock announcement came after a Spanish court said earlier on Wednesday it was launching a preliminary investigation into whether Sanchez's wife Begona Gomez committed a crime of influence peddling and corruption in business in her private dealings.
A former SAS serviceman who took part in a deadly ambush of IRA terrorists has had his jail sentence quashed.