Metropolitan Police have submitted 20 investigation files on the Grenfell Tower fire to the Crown Prosecution Service, covering 20 companies and organisations and 54 individuals. Potential charges span corporate manslaughter, gross negligence manslaughter, health and safety offences, fraud and fraud-related offences, and misconduct in public office, following work by a 220-strong investigation team. The CPS aims to issue charging decisions by June 2027, the fire’s tenth anniversary, a timetable relevant for dutyholders involved in high-rise cladding, fire safety design and regulatory compliance.

Government Actuary’s Department actuaries have delivered probabilistic analysis to the Office of Rail and Road on how climate-related hazards such as extreme rainfall, heat and flooding are evolving across UK rail and strategic road assets. Using long‑term climate projections and hazard frequency–severity modelling, the work maps where risks to embankments, cuttings, track buckling and drainage exceedances are likely to increase. The outputs will feed into ORR’s scrutiny of Network Rail and National Highways’ asset management, resilience upgrades and future capital planning.

A new draft supplemental environmental impact statement from the US Army Corps of Engineers and BLM models a 27% tailings storage facility failure at NOVAGOLD’s proposed Donlin Gold mine in Alaska, warning a toxic wave could reach Crooked Creek village in 90 minutes, bury it in tailings and leave metal contamination in the Kuskokwim River basin for more than a century. The scenario, far larger than the previously assessed 0.5% spill, projects long-term erosion, groundwater mounding, altered stream channels and persistent reductions in fish abundance, with NGOs demanding analysis of a full dam failure. The 40-million-ounce, 2.22 g/t deposit is permitted for 1.1 million ounces per year over 27 years, but the SEIS outcome could modify, reaffirm or rescind the existing federal permit.