Mirror's Daily Digest - top five stories you need to read tonight

Welcome to the Mirror's Daily Digest, where we'll be pulling together all the biggest stories of the day from our News, Showbiz, Politics teams and more. This Friday, we're featuring everything from Prince Harry’s meeting with King Charles to Ruth Langsford’s This Morning ‘comeback’.

We’ve got an opinion piece from columnist Darren Lewis on Rylan Clark's claims about migration, while Health Editor Martin Bagot has covered the latest on the new chickenpox vaccinerollout. Meanwhile, our Politics team has been working around the clock to cover the verdict on whether to overturn a court ruling to block asylum seekers from being housed atthe Bell Hotel in Epping.

Prince Harry set to meet with King Charles but William rejects reunion

Last night, the Mirror’s US Editor Christopher Bucktin exclusively revealed that Prince Harry is poised to see his father King Charles when he returns to the UK in two weeks. The reunion would mark the first time the pair have seen each other in 20 months, and comes after an informal peace summit withBuckingham Palace officials - however Prince William has rejected any reconciliation with his brother.

The Duke of Sussex is expected in London on September 8 - the third anniversary ofQueen Elizabeth II’s death - to attend the WellChild Awards, a charity event he has long supported. A US source told theMirror: “It’s clear there is now a determination on both sides to make this happen. Nobody is pretending the wider family issues have been resolved, but this is about beginning with Charles and Harry.

"For the first time in a long time, there’s a genuine sense that reconciliation is within reach.Prince Harry’s team and the Palace have opened a line of communication, and there is every hope that father and son will see one another when the Duke returns to London in September."

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'Rylan Clark needs pushback but ITV should be ashamed at what was broadcast'

Meanwhile, the Mirror’s columnist Darren Lewis has shared his thoughts on Rylan Clark's claims about migration after he provoked an angry backlash for a rant about small boat crossings on ITV's This Morning.

In an opinion piece, Darren penned: “Yes, we must continue to push back on Rylan Clark’s dangerous comments on This Morning. But it is ITV and the magazine show on the hook as much as the stand-in presenter, if not more.

“Rylan is a symptom of the poisonous rhetoric infecting the broadcast narrative around asylum seekers and refugees.” He added: “Rylan prefaced his words with an attempt at “taking politics out of this” - but you can’t. Not while the actual politicians are scapegoating migrants and foreigners to try and turn us against each other. So some facts.

“The number of hotels accommodating asylum seekers has fallen from 400 in 2023 to just over 200 in 2025. In the first half of this year alone, the number of asylum seekers living in hotels fell by 6,000.

“But the Conservative and Reform politicians want to continue targeting them to produce anxieties just like Rylan’s and the people who don’t read the detail.”

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Brit kids to be offered chickenpox vaccine on NHS for first time

Children will be offered achickenpox vaccine on the NHS for the first time from January, reports the Mirror’s Health and Science Editor Martin Bagot. Health chiefs have decided to add the vaccine against the varicella zoster virus to the existing combined measles, mumps, rubella (MMR) jab, he wrote. It comes as childhood vaccination rates are plummeting and the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) warns many children will be starting primaryschool unprotected against a range of serious diseases.

Until now parents concerned about chickenpox have had to pay around £150 at private clinics for their child to be vaccinated against it. Dr Gayatri Amirthalingam, UKHSA deputy director of immunisation, said: "Most parents probably consider chickenpox to be a common and mild illness, but for some babies, young children and even adults, chickenpox can be very serious, leading to hospital admission and tragically, while rare, it can be fatal.

"It is excellent news, that from next January, we will be introducing a vaccine to protect against chickenpox into theNHS routine childhood vaccination programme - helping prevent what is for most a nasty illness and for those who develop severe symptoms, it could be a life saver."

Read the full story here.

Bombshell court ruling on migrant hotel decides future for UK asylum seekers

Finally, our Politics team has been following today’s ruling on whether to overturn a court ruling to block asylum seekers from being housed at Epping's Bell Hotel after a wave of protests this summer.

In a live blog, they wrote that a temporary injunction to block asylum seekers from being housed at the Bell Hotel in Epping has been overturned by the Court of Appeal. Senior judges tore into a previous legal ruling that would have stoppedthe Bell Hotel in Epping being used to put up migrants and overturned the ruling that would have forced them out by September 12.

Lord Justice Bean, sitting with Lady Justice Nicola Davies and Lord Justice Cobb, said the Home Office was also granted the right to appeal as the previous judge made an "erroneous" decision not to let the department be involved. It comes after a High Court judge said asylum seekers could not be housed at the hotel - which has seen widespread protests this summer - beyond September 12. Government lawyers called for the temporary injunction to be torn up.

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Ruth Langsford teases This Morning return with co-star as 'we adore each other'

In an exclusive chat with our Showbiz team, presenter Ruth Langsford revealed she would consider making a comeback to This Morning, after leaving a regular role on the ITV show alongside estranged husband Eamonn Holmes.

When quizzed on whether she would return to This Morning, Ruth replied: "If they’d have me, they only have to ask, especially with Rylan!" She gushed: "I love Rylan. He's like my son, really. We adore each other, and we've worked together before, so who knows?"

The presenter went on to share that even if they don't reunite on the This Morning sofa, she'd love to team up with Rylan again on another TV project. Ruth divulged: "We might work together, it might not be This Morning – we might do something outside of that."

Read the full story here.

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