Alex Thomson , Chief Correspondent

The identity of three family court judges who made decisions about the care of 10-year-old Sara Sharif in the years before she was murdered are to be revealed. 

We spoke to Scotland’s First Minister John Swinney, first asking him for an update on the situation in Scotland. 

We speak to Father John Heneghan from Southport’s Saint Patrick’s Catholic church about Axel Rudakubana’s sentencing.

We spoke to Patrick Hurley, the Labour MP for Southport, and began by asking him how members of the local community were impacted by that terrible day.

We spoke to Emily Spurrell, who is the Police and Crime Commissioner for Merseyside, which covers Southport. 

We spoke to Alan Rusbridger, former editor-in-chief of The Guardian and current editor of Prospect magazine. We asked if he sees this as the end – or the beginning of a criminal investigation into what happened?

The Mayor of South Yorkshire, Oliver Coppard, has written to the IOPC asking to see its unpublished report into the activities of senior officers.

It’s a week since the Santa Ana winds fanned devastating wildfires across Los Angeles – destroying thousands of homes and businesses. 

“We are absolutely prepared,” Los Angeles officials declared today, as dangerously strong winds threaten to reignite the fires which have already spread across more than 40 thousand acres.

The question so many are asking here is how all this failed so spectacularly in the Angelenos’ hour of need, indeed, days of need.

Firefighters are still battling to contain three fires around Los Angeles – and officials warn the risk remains “very high” with “critical fire weather conditions” continuing into next week.

A fresh evacuation order has been issued warning people to flee an area close to the Palisades fire – because of an immediate threat to life.

For a fourth day, wildfires are raging around Los Angeles, where entire neighbourhoods have been devastated.

The LA fires still rage – catastrophic reality has rivalled fiction in the home of American disaster movies. As the fires spread the insurance losses mount. Estimates are that they’ve reached $13bn in just 24 hours.

Mark Zuckerberg is planning to team up with Donald Trump to “push back” against what he called the EU’s “ever increasing number of laws institutionalising censorship”.