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Rozina Sabur National Security Editor |
British intelligence agencies are investigating whether classified information was leaked or spies were compromised by the biggest espionage scandal in modern German history.
The arrests of August Hanning, the former head of Germany’s foreign intelligence service, and a serving senior official at the agency on suspicion of espionage and treason sent shock waves through Europe yesterday.
Prosecutors said around 2,000 documents had been passed out of the BND, Germany’s equivalent of MI6, over a 16-year period. Some secrets were allegedly sold to a foreign power.
The case raises the prospect that British and American intelligence have been compromised, particularly human sources operating in the field.
Several British and US agencies are believed to be carrying out internal reviews of sensitive information shared with European allies.
Similar audits are likely to be undertaken by Germany’s other intelligence-sharing partners and allies.
Martin Jäger, the president of the BND, said the agency had “initiated comprehensive internal investigations”, which had confirmed its suspicions.
He said: “For the BND and for me, there can be no compromises when it comes to internal security. None of my goals or priorities are being called into question by this incident.”
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David Blair: Germany’s spy agencies were a sitting duck for a hostile state ➤ |
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Sabrina Miller in Re’im |
At 9:20am on Oct 7, 2023, 16 Nova festival-goers, fleeing the worst terror attack in Israel’s history, scrambled into a large fluorescent-yellow dumpster and buried themselves deep beneath piles of rubbish.
For approximately three hours, they hid silently, praying they wouldn’t be seen as dozens of armed men from Gaza scoured the festival grounds for victims.
As the sun beat down and the rubbish stewed, they heard the hellish screams of people around them begging for mercy as they were mutilated, raped or executed.
Their terrifying ordeal was recorded in desperate text messages sent to family and loved ones many miles away.
Using these messages and rare first-hand testimony from a survivor, The Telegraph has pieced together one of the most agonising and heartbreaking moments of Oct 7.
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Allison Pearson If the blinkered pro-Palestine crowd want to talk about “genocide”, they should start with Israel’s murdered mothers and mutilated children Continue reading ➤
Tom Harris Polanski’s true character is revealed by the disinfectant of sunlight Continue reading ➤
Rowan Pelling Andrew should resign himself to disgraced obscurity Continue reading ➤ |
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• Child rapists are avoiding tougher sentences because of delays prompted by prison overcrowding. A law making rape charges mandatory for adults who have sex with children is yet to be implemented because it will increase maximum sentences.
• The suspected Flydubai hijacker trained to become a pilot in Britain, The Telegraph can reveal. He is believed to have attended L3 Airline Academy, a pilot-training company with centres in England that has since become part of Acron Aviation.
• Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor has launched legal action against the police after accusing officers of seizing personal items. If he is successful, Thames Valley Police could be forced to return every item.
• Hotel California, the Eagles’ enduring classic, has claimed pole position in a nationwide survey of the songs motorists most wanted to play during a road trip. See the top 25 here.
• Jaguar has finally launched the electric car that thrust the marque into a storm of controversy – but this time a pink version was nowhere in sight.
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Florence Pugh unveils the new Jaguar Type 01 |
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The Tory leader was pictured partying with Young Conservatives | Credit: Instagram / kemibadenoch |
Kemi Badenoch will declare that the next general election will be a “battle for the soul of this nation”. The Conservative Party leader will also use her party conference speech later today to set out a plan to lower taxes and stop increasing the national debt.
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Here’s what is happening today at the conference:
• 10am: Kevin Hollinrake, the chairman of the Conservative Party, delivers a speech titled From Party to Movement
• Then Chris Philp, the shadow home secretary, and Nick Timothy, the shadow justice secretary, discuss the Tory plan to secure Britain’s borders and crack down on crime
• 11:15am: This will be followed by the main event, the leader’s speech, delivered by Kemi Badenoch
• 5pm: The Daily T podcast will go live, with Camilla Tominey and Tim Stanley reacting to Badenoch’s speech |
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She wrote the Green Party motion declaring it racist to support a Jewish homeland in Israel. Yet Lubna Speitan does not consider plotting a suicide attack on Heathrow airport enough reason to end a friendship, a Telegraph investigation can reveal.
Ming Quang Pham, a Vietnam-born British national, planned to detonate a backpack filled with shrapnel dipped in rat poison in the arrivals lounge. His handlers told him to target flights landing from Israel. In 2015, court documents described Speitan as a “close friend” of the defendant, who is now serving 44 years in a US prison. She offered to testify in his defence. Asked by The Telegraph whether she still considered the convicted terrorist a friend, the British-Palestinian artist said: “Yes.”
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The Green voters horrified by Polanski – and turning to Labour ➤ |
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Today I witnessed France’s biggest school revolt in decades erupt into running battles in Paris, writes Henry Samuel, with teenagers firing fireworks and riot police answering with tear gas and stun grenades. Behind the violence lies a youth rebellion over crumbling schools, teacher shortages and a future many pupils fear is being stolen. Continue reading ➤ |
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English restaurateur and club proprietor Nick Jones is behind Cafe Boheme, Soho House, Babington House and Cecconi’s. Lisa Armstrong visited him at St Clement, his new venture, and observed him deliver a pep talk to 20 or so new staff members before sitting down to interview him. “Some would say this is a crazy time to open another five-star hotel in London, even for someone with as stellar a track record as Jones,” she writes. Continue reading ➤ |
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Penarth
Gareth and Beca, his younger sister, in their garden in Penarth (left), and playing a gig at Penarth Athletic Club as their sibling double-act Two Wordsworth |
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Gareth Davies Editor, Flagship Newsletters |
In a strange turn of events, CF64 has become one of the most desirable postcodes in Britain. Penarth, my south Wales hometown, is now a destination for its art deco pier pavilion, high-end coffee shops, scenic seaside walks and bustling restaurant scene.
This, dear reader, is not the Penarth in which I grew up. Take the pier pavilion, for example. Now, it’s a cinema with a coffee shop and an art gallery attached. When I was a boy, it was a run-down gymnastics club we broke into at night to launch ourselves from trampolines.
Parts of Penarth have always been nice, but before they were demolished, the Billy Banks flats overlooking Cardiff Bay provided a frightening playground. Fights were plentiful, and if people didn’t want to settle scores face-to-face, you could always rely on the boys from St Luke’s estate for a rock fight. Thankfully, there was always safety in numbers outside Gimber Motors where dozens of us would gather to skateboard.
I miss the old Penarth, and when I go back, I sigh at how prim and proper it has become. One thing that has remained constantly brilliant, though, is the town’s sport scene.
I was brought up in that world – Penarth RFC from under-6s to the First XV, Old Penarthians RFC gave me my first senior cap at 16, I pretended to be a footballer behind the leisure centre for Cogan Coronation, tennis at Penarth Lawn (under-12s boys’ champion, thank you very much), golf at Glamorganshire Golf Club and endless summer nights as I graduated through the age groups to the First XI for Penarth Cricket Club.
Thankfully, these clubs, where I grew up and spent the majority of my childhood remain part of Penarth’s fabric. They were laced with brilliant characters who taught me more about life than any school or university ever did.
I feel more at home here than anywhere else in the world, and whenever I go back, sitting at one of these clubs feels like the heartiest hug one could ask for.
Gareth’s 18th birthday celebration at Penarth Athletic Club, which burnt down last year |
Tragically, Penarth Athletic Club, home to Penarth Rugby Club and Penarth Cricket Club, burnt down last year. I’ve not brought myself to visit the charred remains. I owe so much to that place, and I almost don’t want to see what it has become. Plans are in place for a new pavilion where another generation can make their own memories.
As much as Penarth might change, one thing remains constant: the history, friendships and camaraderie of its sports clubs will never diminish.
We have a word in Welsh: hiraeth. There is no English translation and it’s very hard to explain. The closest I can manage is a longing for home that lives within you. When I experience hiraeth, it’s not for Penarth the town, it’s the pitches, changing rooms and bars where my fondest memories were formed.
Have you ever been to Penarth? If so, let us know your memories of the town here. |
Sun, sun, go awayEvery weekday, Orlando Bird, our loyal Reader Correspondent, shares an off-piste topic that has brought out the best of your opinions and stories. Orlando writes...
“Summer’s lease hath all too short a date,” does it, William Shakespeare? Not this year it doesn’t. Those of us who spend August counting down the days until September – readying our heavy jumpers, cherishing even the faintest chill in the air, waiting for permission to think bittersweet thoughts about the transience of things – have been subjected to a marathon exercise in deferred gratification. Here we are in October, and it’s still 20C.
This deep injustice has not gone unnoticed by readers. Kate Pycock recently complained on the Letters page: “I have always looked forward to autumn – the changing of the light and the crispness of early mornings. This year it has been profoundly disappointing.
“Here in East Anglia I am still wearing a T-shirt and shorts, and breaking into a sweat every time I go for a walk. Whether climate change or the approaching El Niño is responsible, it is depressing to think that this could soon be typical.
“I seem to be surrounded by folk in coats, fleeces and long trousers. Are they delusional, or is it me? My worry is that the weather will simply transition to the storms and flooding we are promised, bypassing what should be a magical time of the year.”
My fear exactly. Yet according to Miranda Gudenian, Kate and I may simply be victims of a seasonal postcode lottery: “Here on my Devon hillside, 800ft above sea level, autumn has arrived. The early mornings are misty, dew jewels the cobwebs and the robin, with treble soft, is singing his wistful winter song. Swallows no longer twitter in the skies but are on their odyssey to Africa. Leaves are colouring and falling.
“Last weekend we had an apple-pressing day at the village pub, with the community apple press busy for hours. On Sunday, the sun at noon had summer’s warmth in it, and the bees humming in late flowers seemed convinced that the warm days would never cease; hundreds were working over the nectar-rich ivy flowers that smother my derelict outhouse, and several dozen butterflies were filling up with goodness before colder days.” Is autumn afoot where you are? Send your responses here, and the best of the bunch will feature in a future edition of this newsletter.
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1909 | British Security Service, commonly known as MI5, is formed as part of the Secret Service Bureau
2000 | The last competitive football match at the original Wembley Stadium sees England defeated 1-0 by Germany
2023 | Hamas terrorists take hundreds of Israelis hostage and kill more than a thousand people (see our front page from the following day below)
Birthdays: Lewis Capaldi (30), Simon Cowell (67), Jayne Torvill (69), Vladimir Putin (74)
Plus, last night, Harry Kane equalled the record for the most England caps. How many appearances has he made?
1. 100
2. 115
3. 125
4. 150
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Yesterday’s Panagram was FANCYWORK. Come back tomorrow for the solution to today’s puzzle. |
Thank you for reading. Have a fulfilling day and I hope to see you tomorrow. Chris Evans, Editor
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