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5 News Weekend
Saturday 29 August 2026 · 18:55 BST · 5m · 7 stories · 10 annotated moments · 1 of 5 min on news stories (27%)
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The broadcast reported that NHS workers and a priest are among the Britons missing and feared dead after devastating floods in Nepal and Tibet, with at least 33 Britons among thousands reported missing and more than 600 people known to have died. A UK team had arrived in Kathmandu to assist rescue efforts. Separately, more than 30 families wrote an open letter to the Prime Minister urging that killers convicted of any form of manslaughter not be released early from prison, saying victims should not bear the consequences of the prison overcrowding crisis. In West Sussex, a 41-year-old man died after a large sign fell on him during a Christian festival, with six others taken to hospital and the rest of the event cancelled.
Football players and fans paid tribute to two police officers killed in a road accident in Cleveland the previous Saturday, with a minute's applause held before the Middlesbrough-West Brom match to remember PCs Matthew Blades and Tom Clough, who died when their car collided with another vehicle carrying five young men who also lost their lives. Sarah Ferguson was reportedly moving back to the UK after living overseas since leaving Windsor Lodge over her links to Jeffrey Epstein. Rail services faced significant disruption over the weekend due to strike action at East Midlands Railway and major engineering works near Birmingham and on the East Coast Mainline. Finally, the Governor of Tennessee announced plans to rename Nashville International Airport after Dolly Parton, following a local campaign, with the singer having died on Tuesday aged 80.
- 0:21 Story begins Nepal and Tibet earthquake death toll rises to 750
- 0:35
- 0:41
- 0:41
Claim Families demand all manslaughter convictions be excluded from early release scheme
Thirty families signed a letter to the Justice Secretary demanding all manslaughter convictions be excluded from the early release scheme.
Channel 5, 5 News Weekend, 29 August 2026, 0:41-0:50
- 0:45
Claim Families demand all manslaughter convictions be excluded from early release scheme
The open letter says victims should not bear the consequences of the prison overcrowding crisis.
Channel 5, 5 News Weekend, 29 August 2026, 0:45-0:56
- 0:56
- 0:56
Claim Man dies after sign collapse at Big Church Festival in West Sussex
A 41-year-old man from Eastbourne died in the incident.
Channel 5, 5 News Weekend, 29 August 2026, 0:56-1:06
- 1:06
Claim Man dies after sign collapse at Big Church Festival in West Sussex
Six people were injured when a sign fell at a festival.
Channel 5, 5 News Weekend, 29 August 2026, 1:06-1:10
- 1:06
Claim Man dies after sign collapse at Big Church Festival in West Sussex
The festival event was closed after the sign fell.
Channel 5, 5 News Weekend, 29 August 2026, 1:06-1:13
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Claim Man dies at church festival in West Sussex
A man died at a church festival in West Sussex.
Channel 5, 5 News Weekend, 29 August 2026, 1:06-1:10
- 1:06
Claim Man dies at church festival in West Sussex
Six other people were taken to hospital for treatment.
Channel 5, 5 News Weekend, 29 August 2026, 1:06-1:10
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- 1:13
Claim Tributes paid to two Cleveland police officers killed in A66 crash
Football players and fans paid tribute to two police officers who died in a road accident in Cleveland.
Channel 5, 5 News Weekend, 29 August 2026, 1:13-1:27
- 1:13
Claim Tributes paid to two Cleveland police officers killed in A66 crash
Football players and fans paid tribute to two police officers who died in a road accident in Cleveland.
Channel 5, 5 News Weekend, 29 August 2026, 1:13-1:27
- 1:18 Story begins Man dies at church festival in West Sussex
- 1:27 Story begins Nashville airport to be renamed Dolly Parton Airport
- 1:27
Claim Man dies at church festival in West Sussex
A minute's applause was held to remember two police officers killed in a road accident.
Channel 5, 5 News Weekend, 29 August 2026, 1:27-1:37
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