Two senior officials stood down from Reform UK after a Channel 4 News report prompted the party to investigate claims about funding.

Nigel Farage’s senior aide Dan Jukes and Reform’s head of policy James Orr have both stood down pending the outcome of the internal probe. The undercover filming was done by Verbatim Investigations and broadcast by Channel 4 News. Reform UK has denied wrongdoing and Nigel Farage describes the operation as entrapment.

The footage appears to show an attempt to secure funding from someone they believed to be a foreign donor. Electoral law prohibits UK political parties from receiving financial contributions from people who can’t vote here. Reform denies any wrongdoing and says it has “been the target of a hoax perpetuated by foreign-funded climate change activists”. Adam and Chris discuss.

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Londoners are able to hail the UK’s first robotaxis – as Uber today becomes the first company to launch a self-driving minicab.

Initially, it only has 15 autonomous vehicles with a licence to operate in the city, and each one must have a human safety driver behind the wheel ready to take control if anything goes wrong.

Uber said it surveyed London-based customers via the app and more than 100,000 said they would choose a self-driving taxi if one was available, despite incidents of driverless rides malfunctioning in US cities where they already operate.

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Two people have been rescued from a tunnel in Nepal more than a week after flash flooding hit the Nepal-Tibet border, killing more than 1,200 people.

Sanjaya Shah and Kabir Maharjan were pulled alive from the Trishuli 3A Hydropower Project.

At least 39 others are thought to be trapped in the same tunnel, with authorities telling the BBC they heard voices early on Friday.

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In 2013, Alex Lewis developed a life-threatening condition that left him needing four amputations. He says he’s in need of a prosthetic unavailable on the NHS in England.

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It has been just over two weeks since a crash on the A66 duel carriageway near Middlesborough, which killed seven people – including two police officers.

The BBC’s Ed Thomas has travelled to the Grangetown area of the city, which, along with the South Bank area, has been the focus of a large police operation into organised crime following the tragedy.

Speaking exclusively to the BBC, Cleveland Police’s Chief Constable Victoria Fuller has said she is proud of her “brave” force but that it was being “let down” by the way it was funded, following the fatal crash.

She said her officers are dealing with some of the highest crime levels in the country akin to those faced by metropolitan forces, but with less than half the number of officers.

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