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Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Maternity services report, Iran-US talks and tension in Cuba

Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost

Sky News

News, Daily News, News Commentary

4.0224 Ratings

🗓️ 26 February 2026

⏱️ 12 minutes

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Summary

Content Warning: childbirth trauma & loss

"Maternity and neonatal services in England are failing too many women" - that's the findings laid out in a report into the nation's maternity care.

Jeffrey Epstein has appeared to blame the then-Prince Charles for Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor losing his UK trade envoy job.

Cuba says its forces have killed four Cuban nationals on a US-registered speedboat.

Also today, polls open at 7am in the by-election for Gorton and Denton.

Sophy and Wilf have the day's news in just 10 minutes.

Transcript

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0:00.0

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0:26.2

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0:32.0

Sky News, the full story first.

0:47.0

In interim reports into maternity care in England says services are failing too many women and babies.

0:55.2

Jeffrey Epstein appeared to blame then-Prince Charles for Andrew Mountbatten, Winds Windsor losing his UK trade envoy job.

0:59.9

Hello, you're listening to Cheat Sheet, a 10-minute podcast on the day's news.

1:02.5

It is Thursday the 26th of February.

1:03.7

I'm Sophie Ridge.

1:04.7

And I'm Wilfrost.

1:07.7

And also today, polls open at 7 a.m.

1:10.0

in the by-election in Gorton and Denton.

1:17.5

Sophie, Baroness Amos has been carrying out this big review into maternity services.

1:23.4

We've had an initial interim report with the full report coming, I think, this spring or summer. Today we get another interim report. Yeah, maternity services in England and the UK really

1:30.6

is something that I've been covering for quite a long time and I think there is an agreement that

1:35.4

things are simply not where they should be, to say the least. More women are actually dying,

1:40.5

right? So the trend is going in the wrong direction. So with all these reports, what I'm actually looking for is tangible things that are going to make a difference.

1:50.0

And there is one in this interim report that I think is particularly shocking, right?

1:55.0

So it's about how baby deaths are classified.

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