{"id":785122,"date":"2026-09-28T09:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:12:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785122\/"},"modified":"2026-09-28T09:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-28T09:12:10","slug":"farmer-who-called-999-saw-large-group-of-hooded-and-masked-men-near-raf-fairford-she-tells-bbc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/785122\/","title":{"rendered":"Farmer who called 999 saw &#8216;large group of hooded and masked men&#8217; near RAF Fairford, she tells BBC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information on those arrested can&#8217;t be made public yet &#8211; Streetingpublished at 08:41 BST<\/p>\n<p>08:41 BST<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Wes Streeting on Today\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/31aad376-61f1-487c-ad50-1cee5e525bdc.jpg.webp\"  width=\"1384\" height=\"778\" class=\"ssrcss-egie1y-Image edrdn950\"\/>Image source, BBC Radio 4 Today programme<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">During his interview on the Today programme, Defence Secretary Wes Streeting renews his thanks to the farmer who rang the police, and talks about the status of the investigation currently under way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;At this stage in the investigation, I&#8217;m not in a position to comment on the identities of these individuals, or their aims and motivations,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Further information will be provided to the public as the investigation unfolds, about the individuals and their backgrounds, he adds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The defence secretary says the police should be given space and time to investigate, and refuses to speculate about Iranian involvement.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;We know that it is a matter of public record, that the Iranian regime is one that would do harm to our interests and to our allies given the chance, and I&#8217;m proud of the work that we do, all year and every year, to detect and to deter and prevent Iran from carrying out acts of harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Information on those arrested can&#8217;t be made public yet &#8211; Streetingpublished at 08:41 BST 08:41 BST Image source,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":785123,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[59,57,58,50,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-785122","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-kingdom","tag-gb","tag-great-britain","tag-greatbritain","tag-news","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785122","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=785122"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/785122\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/785123"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=785122"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=785122"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=785122"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}