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Former prime minister Malcolm Turnbull told a public inquiry that the Aukus deal involving the US and UK may result in no submarines for Australia. He stated that the US capacity for building submarines has remained laggard, noting that its own legislation restricts sales if it would 'degrade' its fleet, requiring the production rate to nearly double from 1.2 to 2.3 per year.

Andy Burnham is considering a public inquiry into the UK activities of Jeffrey Epstein. The prime minister has agreed to meet Epstein’s victims, and a separate inquiry into Mohamed Al Fayed is also being considered.

A contractor claimed that fire alarms in Hong Kong’s Wang Fuk Court would not have prevented deaths during last year’s blaze, prompting a judge overseeing the public inquiry to question if the company was evading responsibility. Legal counsel for a director of fire service contractor China Status Development and Engineering stated that residents in the first building to catch fire would have still died even with functional alarms.

A Nottingham stabbing victim expressed anger over the absence of the killer's father during a public inquiry into the incident. The father has now provided his first comments on the event.

Parents of a victim from the Nottingham attacks argue medical staff must breach patient confidentiality if an individual poses a risk to others. They claim Valdo Calocane was protected at the expense of public safety in the years leading up to the June 2023 stabbings. The families made these remarks after a 14-week public inquiry into the attacks concluded.

Paul Quinn, a father of six, was sentenced to 21 years in prison for a 2003 rape that led to Andrew Malkinson's wrongful conviction, a case deemed one of the UK's worst miscarriages of justice. DNA evidence later exonerated Malkinson, who spent 17 years in prison before his conviction was quashed in 2023.