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New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late...
Wednesday 26 August 2026 · 23:00 BST · 1h · 5 stories · 15 annotated moments · 34 of 60 min on news stories (56%)
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The programme's headlines reported that the Duke and Duchess of Sussex had landed privately in Birmingham with their children for an extended stay in the UK, six years after stepping back from royal duties. It also covered flash floods in Nepal, with at least 33 Britons unaccounted for and more than 157 people dead, a house fire in Grangetown near Middlesbrough that killed a seven-year-old girl and a woman, and the deaths of Dolly Parton at 80 and Tim Curry at 80.
A substantial discussion focused on the Middlesbrough fire, examining it as an apparent escalation of gangland violence linked to a weekend A66 crash that killed two police officers and five young men, with four of those men holding 37 previous convictions between them. Panellists debated prison sentencing and crime prevention. The programme also discussed the Telegraph's story that Germany is in talks to fund Britain's Trident nuclear programme as part of closer European defence ties, and the i paper's report that Meta has been ordered to pay $17 billion over knowingly harming children online, with panellists criticising social media's addictive design and its effects on young people.
The broadcast included tributes to Dolly Parton, noting her final song is locked away until 2046, her charity work including the Imagination Library book programme, and memories from a panellist who met her in the 1970s. The Nepal floods were revisited with discussion of the scale of the disaster and the challenges of rescue in mountainous terrain.
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- 7:29 Story begins 14 newborn babies die in Islamabad hospital fire
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Claim 14 newborn babies die in Islamabad hospital fire
Two people died in a house fire in Middlesbrough.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 8:24-8:33
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Claim 14 newborn babies die in Islamabad hospital fire
Two men, aged 23 and 31, were arrested on suspicion of murder.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 8:29-8:38
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Claim 14 newborn babies die in Islamabad hospital fire
The fire was about two miles from the A66 crash that killed seven people.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 8:33-8:44
- 17:43 Story begins Nepal and Tibet earthquake death toll rises to 750
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Claim Nepal and Tibet earthquake death toll rises to 750
Local police confirmed 95 deaths.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 18:03-18:11
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Claim Nepal and Tibet earthquake death toll rises to 750
Local police confirmed 95 deaths.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 18:06-18:11
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Claim Nepal and Tibet earthquake death toll rises to 750
More than 150 bodies have been recovered.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 18:09-18:14
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Claim Nepal and Tibet earthquake death toll rises to 750
More than 150 bodies have been recovered.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 18:09-18:14
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Claim Nepal and Tibet earthquake death toll rises to 750
The Prime Minister referred to the Nepal-China border, not Tibet.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 19:35-19:43
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Claim Germany in talks to help fund UK Trident nuclear deterrent
Germany is in talks to invest in the UK's nuclear deterrent.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 26:08-26:12
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Claim Instagram head testifies in landmark social media child safety trial
Meta paid $17 billion in the settlement.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 38:46-38:49
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Contested quote Instagram head testifies in landmark social media child safety trial
over child harm. This this for me especially I hate this especially as a new father but it does really hit home actually Facebook and Instagram chief Mark Zuckerberg has essentially been saved from testifying in a trial because the firm's whistleblower gave evidence that the tech's legal chief so him
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 38:54-38:59
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Claim Instagram head testifies in landmark social media child safety trial
The lawsuit alleges harmful design features such as constant notification alerts, filters and infinite scrolling.
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 39:07-39:13
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Charged quote Instagram head testifies in landmark social media child safety trial
the firm's whistleblower gave evidence that the tech's legal chief so him knew of harm being caused to children his firm Meta is accused of deliberately targeting teenagers with product features as addictive as cigarettes online casinos all all of this kind of stuff now look I'm regularly this is what I'm instinctively against all of
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 39:08-39:14
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Charged quote Instagram head testifies in landmark social media child safety trial
so look they're going to do better than I do they've got the research I can't defend them against them as well as they can attack my brain this is so cynical it's absolutely repulsive and they have destroyed around the world a generation they I know that sounds completely over the top but they have if you look at if you you know
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 41:01-41:08
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- 49:35 Story begins Dolly Parton dies at age 80
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Charged quote Dolly Parton dies at age 80
yeah and it costs a lot of money to look this chin I mean you're wonderful I mean you know it's just a wonderful woman She could easily easily have been like a super billionaire but she just kept giving so much away in charity she funds that the Moderna vaccine included or something yeah she donated a million dollars yeah
GB News, New: Patrick Christys Tonight Late..., 26 August 2026, 52:45-52:52
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