Who said it On this day

“I remember your hands and your laugh and your favourite beer... Thank you for your dedication and love for us all and especially Granny, who we will look after for you” - Princess Eugenie pays tribute to her grandfather, the Duke of Edinburgh.

“I’ll always look back on this and feel it’s such an honour and privilege to perform The Last Post especially, within the chapel, for such an important personality, within our country and our monarchy. And he was such a nice person, relatable. And that’s what makes it even more special” Sergeant Bugler Jamie Ritchie reflects on being asked to lead four buglers in performing at the Duke of Edinburgh’s funeral. “Dodgy contracts, privileged access, jobs for mates, this is the return of Tory sleaze... The more I listen, the more I think Ted Hastings and AC-12 is needed to get to the bottom of this one” Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer says Line Of Duty’s anticorruption unit is needed for Boris Johnson’s Government. “We will all want to get our lives back, to enjoy ourselves again, but we must be cautious and do this slowly. Otherwise we’ll get back to square one” - Professor Anthony Harnden, deputy chairman of the Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI), urges public caution. “When it first came out, everybody loved the fact that Idris Elba was in there. A really strong, black character lead. We all fell in love with Luther. But after the second series, you were like ‘OK, he doesn’t have black friends, he doesn’t eat Caribbean food, this doesn’t feel authentic”’ - Miranda Wayland, creative diversity chief of the BBC, on the TV series Luther. 1452: Leonardo da Vinci, the complete Italian Renaissance man, was born.

1755: Dr Samuel Johnson’s dictionary was published, containing 40,000 words.

1793: £5 notes were first issued by the Bank of England.

1912: The Titanic sank after hitting an iceberg. 1942: Malta was awarded the George Cross for its heroism in the Second World War. 1955: The first Mcdonald’s franchise was opened by Ray Kroc in Des Plaines, Illinois. 1966: Time magazine voted London “the city of the decade”.

1989: Britain’s worst football disaster took place at Hillsborough, Sheffield, when 96 fans were crushed to death at an FA Cup game between Liverpool and Nottingham Forest. 2010: Before a live studio audience in Manchester and millions more watching at home, Gordon Brown, David Cameron and Nick Clegg clashed over the economy, defence and care for the elderly in Britain’s first televised general election leaders’ debate.

ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: A drug that might help in the development of a way to kill cancer cells in children was found in willow trees.

Liverpool fans try to escape the crush at the Hillsborough tragedy.