QUOTES OF THE DAY

“These data come from the hardest group to protect – those who are the frailest, the oldest adults in our population – and we’re seeing an 80% reduction in hospitalisation in that group, which is stunning”

– Professor Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, welcomes real-world data on the effectiveness of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines.

“It rocks a boat that they don’t want rocking but there are people dying. It’s taken a month to get the paperwork from the coroner’s court in Sheffield to the headquarters in Sheffield and it’s still not here. And, in that month, there have been five serious accidents on smart motorways”

– Claire Mercer, whose husband Jason died on a smart motorway,

demands an investigation into Highways England over his death.

“The timing is just horrendous. Anybody who looks at this through the optics of a caring family, even a family who are estranged from one another, it’s very uncomfortable as you edge towards Sunday”

– Public relations consultant Mark Borkowski says the screening of the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s interview with Oprah Winfrey should be postponed while the Duke of Edinburgh is unwell.

“We will make sure it is an event that everyone – in the UK and around the world – can get involved in and it will truly celebrate his generosity of spirit, the hope and joy he brought to millions and his sense of fun”

– Hannah Ingram-Moore, daughter of Captain Sir Tom Moore, says her

father’s life will be celebrated through an event on what would have

been his 101st birthday on April 30.