QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Today, we have proven that we were right all along. Saleh Ibrahim Mabrouk was responsible for Yvonne’s death. Everything we have done leading up to this verdict has been for Yvonne. Today we have finally achieved justice for Yvonne”

- Retired police officer John Murray, above, after a High Court judge found a former aide to Colonel Muammar Gaddafi was jointly liable for the shooting of his colleague PC Yvonne Fletcher, who was killed in 1984.

“It is hard to believe that it is over 50 years since Prince Philip and I attended the very first meeting of the General Synod. None of us can slow the passage of time; and while we often focus on all that has changed in the intervening years, much remains unchanged, including the Gospel of Christ and his teachings”

- The Queen in a message to the

Church of England’s national assembly, read by the Earl of Wessex.

“For me, women’s sport and the increase in the coverage of women’s sport is not just about little girls watching television and thinking ‘I could be a footballer’ – it is about everybody thinking ‘I can do things that I did not think were possible before’. This is for me one of the great powers of sport in that it opens your mind to lots of different possibilities”

- Presenter Gabby Logan, speaking as she was made an MBE during an investiture ceremony at Windsor

Castle.

“We’ve got used to using Covid passports and I’m about to have my booster jab, my third one [dose], tomorrow and I shall just go on being a pin cushion until they say it’s time to stop. Anything you can do, terrific”

- Actress Joanna Lumley.