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“I had a good chat with ITV and we agreed to disagree... I believe in freedom of speech, I believe in the right to be allowed to have an opinion” - Piers Morgan speaks after his abrupt departure from Good Morning Britain.

“Since the Black Lives Matter movement really took hold in the UK last year, every single institutio­n in this country has had to finally look at its failings and its position in terms of how they treat ethnic minorities both inside and outside of its walls. But for some unknown reason, you feel as though the UK press is exempt in that discussion” - ITV

News presenter Charlene White says she will not host this year’s Society Of Editors’ Press Awards after the body came under fire for comments about the Duke and Duchess of Sussex’s accusation­s of racism.

“Clearly we cannot have a position where a woman in public life finds that she is feeling suicidal because of the relentless nature of the attacks on her and on her character. So we need to find ways that we can create that environmen­t where a woman isn’t hounded in the way that we saw Meghan Markle being hounded” Labour MP Holly Lynch raises the prospect of tougher press regulation over Meghan’s treatment.

“The only bad side of this, for a Cambridgem­an, is to have an Oxford vaccine. It’s the wrong colour blue as far as I’m concerned, but I suppose I’ll have to put those kinds of petty rivalries behind me” - Cambridge University alumnus Stephen Fry jokes about old university rivalries as he received his coronaviru­s vaccinatio­n at Westminste­r Abbey.

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