Safety risks over prisoner release, Birmingham protests and Mary Queen of stops
Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost
Sky News
4.0 • 224 Ratings
🗓️ 7 November 2025
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
A serving prison governor has told Sky News that public safety is “at risk” due to an increase in offenders being transferred to prisons with low security. There have been 11 arrests after the controversial Europa League final between Aston Villa and Maccabi Tel Aviv. And Mary Earps reflects on her shock retirement from the Lionesses in her new book.
Anna Jones and Kamali Melbourne run through Friday's news in 10 minutes - getting you up to speed on what you need to know, minus the doom scrolling.
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| 0:33.0 | Hello, you're listening to Cheat Sheet, the podcast that cuts through the scroll, the shouting and the spin to bring you everything that's happening today in 10 minutes. |
| 0:42.2 | Good morning to you. I'm Kamali Melbourne and there's plenty going on today. |
| 0:45.9 | There is lots going on. I'm Anna Jones. It's Friday the 7th of November. So talk us through what we're looking at today. |
| 0:51.1 | Well, look, the prime minister has had to defend his Justice Secretary, David Lamey, |
| 0:56.0 | from those comments made in the Commons that didn't quite get to the truth of the matter |
| 1:02.5 | as to what the government knew about the prisoner release in the week. |
| 1:07.1 | Yeah, lots about prisons still in the news. |
| 1:09.1 | Also, there were hundreds of protesters in |
| 1:10.9 | Birmingham last night over that controversial Aston Villa match against Maccabee Tel Aviv. |
| 1:16.7 | And the legend is Mary Earps, Mary Queen Stops. Her book is out and she's talked about some |
| 1:22.7 | of the controversy surrounding the publication of that book. |
| 1:28.7 | So, a serving prison governor has told Sky News that public safety is at risk |
| 1:33.9 | because there's an increase in offenders being transferred to prisons with minimal security. |
| 1:38.2 | Now this is Mark Drury. |
| 1:40.1 | He's been speaking in his role as representative for open prison governors at the Prison Governors Association. |
| 1:46.3 | And he's saying that governors are seeing more abscons and also more failures to return when people go out on day release and they just don't come back. |
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