US strikes Iran | Social media ban | Bank holiday heatwave
Cheat Sheet with Ridge & Frost
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🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
The US carried out new strikes on southern Iran overnight, during crunch time for peace talks.
Social media could be as bad for children's health as smoking - that's according to the country's leading doctors, who are urging Sir Keir Starmer to ban social media for under-16s.
Plus, the UK enjoyed its hottest May day ever on record this bank holiday weekend... and it could be about to get even hotter.
Leah and Wilf have the day's news in just 10 minutes.
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| 0:00.0 | Sky News, the full story first. |
| 0:09.0 | The US has carried out new strikes on southern Iran overnight, despite hopes of peace talks succeeding over the weekend. |
| 0:18.3 | Social media ranks alongside smoking as a threat to the health of young people. |
| 0:23.7 | That's according to the UK's most senior doctors. |
| 0:27.1 | Hello, you're listening to Cheat Sheet, a 10-minute podcast on the day's news on Tuesday, |
| 0:31.5 | the 26th of May. |
| 0:32.9 | I'm Wilfred Frost. |
| 0:34.1 | And I'm Leah Belletto. |
| 0:35.9 | Also today, what a bank holiday weekend. It was the hottest day in May |
| 0:40.7 | ever recorded, with London reaching 34.8 degrees. The US has carried out new strikes on southern Iran. |
| 0:50.1 | The American military says the actions were taken in self-defense due to what they say |
| 0:55.2 | are threats posed by Iranian forces. They say targets included missile launch sites and |
| 1:02.2 | Iranian boats attempting to emplace mines. Washington and Tehran indicated that peace talks |
| 1:09.2 | had progressed over the weekend, but there's no deal so far. |
| 1:13.5 | Yeah, so I mean, obviously these strikes come as a great surprise and disappointment in light of the, |
| 1:23.2 | I'd say, highest hopes yet in the prior few days that we would reach significant kind of progress |
| 1:30.4 | in terms of those peace talks to then have strikes of any form, whether they're being framed |
| 1:36.3 | as defensive or not, kind of clearly lowers the hopes in and around that. |
| 1:41.9 | It comes, by the way, at the same time as the Israeli military |
| 1:47.2 | began a wave of strikes across Lebanon. Benjamin Netanyahu has said that the country will |
| 1:53.4 | intensify their attacks on Hezbollah and large numbers of people have been leaving Beirut. |
| 2:00.4 | Of course, that's despite a ceasefire |
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