The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
Who said it
“When you read the statistics about the number of young women that have been subject to sexual assault or harassment, they’re horrific. It’s too common in every walk of life, in every school playground, in every university, in every workplace, this is going on far too often” - Caroline Nokes, chair of Westminster’s select committee on women and equalities.
“Despite the avalanche of unfair criticism my colleagues have faced this week, they will continue to be the first to arrive whenever these same critics call us for help”
- John Apter, chairman of the Police Federation.
“When he gets the top job he won’t do away with it all. He’s mindful the monarchy represents something timeless that’s above all of us, and many people like the magic and theatre of it” - The Duke of Cambridge’s former
private secretary Miguel Head says although he does not love “ceremony”, he knows “the importance” of it.
“Anyone who has been through a severe illness will know you were, in a sense, one person before it, and come out the other side as somebody else. You are reconfigured and it’s like passing through a fire. You are essentially the same person but you have been taken apart and put back together again” - Author Maggie O’farrell, who almost died from encephalitis when she was eight, on Desert Island Discs.
“I will certainly never forget this day, in fact it’s still sinking in that I’ve been monitoring a walrus on the Pembrokeshire coast, it’s been absolutely amazing” - RSPCA animal rescue officer Ellie West after an Arctic walrus was spotted off the coast of South Wales.
On this day
1888: The English Football League was formed by 12 clubs meeting at a Fleet Street hotel. 1895: The first celluloid film was presented to an audience by Auguste and Louis Lumiere in Paris.
1896: Thomas Hughes – lawyer, author and Liberal MP – died. He was involved in the formation of some early trade unions and wrote Tom Brown’s Schooldays.
1907: The first cabs with taxi meters began operating in London.
1958: Showman Michael Todd, husband of Elizabeth Taylor, died when his light aircraft iced up and crashed into mountains in New Mexico. The plane was called Lucky Liz. 1963: John Profumo denied having an affair with model Christine Keeler. The secretary of state for war later resigned, admitting he had lied to parliament.
1996: The war crimes tribunal in The Hague made its first indictment of three Muslims and a Croat for the torture, rape and murder of Serb prisoners.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The number of people infected with Covid-19 worldwide reached the hundreds of thousands.