The edition of 8 October 2026
Nothing notable published today.
We would rather send you this than manufacture significance.
Two of our datasets were due a check this morning, and both came back byte-for-byte identical to the copies we already hold: the Met Office's 37 historic station files, unchanged since yesterday, and the Ministry of Justice's 102 monthly prison population bulletins, unchanged since 1 October. The September prison bulletin has not yet been published. Nothing was revised.
NHS England published its August hospital waiting-list figures this morning. We were not able to collect them: the page we fetch them from has changed, and our rule is that a dataset we could not fetch and check is left out of the day entirely rather than read from anywhere else. They are not in this edition.
Nothing on our shelf of developing stories is ready to run. The next fresh data we expect is the September prison bulletins and the August house prices in the coming fortnight, followed by the August airport figures.