The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
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“It’s dangerous, it’s discriminatory, it’s counterproductive... It’s one thing to have a passport to travel internationally, that is a privilege, even a luxury, but participating in local community life is a fundamental right”
- Labour peer Baroness Shami Chakrabarti, who is among a cross-party group of politicians warning ministers against introducing coronavirus vaccine passports for everyday life in England. “We’re still very much in a world where you can meet friends and family outdoors under the ‘rule of six’ or two households. And even though your friends and family members may be vaccinated, the vaccines are not giving 100% protection, and that’s why we just need to be cautious” - Boris Johnson urges against people meeting others from different
households indoors over the Easter weekend.
“Care homes are not prisons, and people living in them should have the same rights as everyone else in society. It is extraordinary, unkind and entirely unacceptable that government guidance should seek to prevent anyone over the age of 64 leaving their care home for visits out” - Nicci Gerrard, cofounder of John’s Campaign, which has launched legal action against the government over its guidance which bans people in residential care over the age of 65 from taking trips outside the home.
“I should have genned up on old episodes, but I just haven’t been able to bring myself to catch up on the 236 shows. I guess I need to watch a lot over the next five days!” - David Schwimmer talks about heading to LA to shoot the Friends reunion. 1367: Henry IV was born at Bolingbroke Castle, Lincolnshire.
1860: The Pony Express service began, running from St Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California.
1882: Jesse James, the legendary outlaw, was shot in the back by one of his own gang.
1897: Johannes Brahms, German pianist and composer, died in Vienna.
1901: Richard D’Oyly Carte, English impresario best remembered as the man behind Gilbert and Sullivan and who built the Savoy Theatre to house their works, died. 1913: Suffragette Emmeline Pankhurst was sentenced to three years for inciting supporters to place explosives at the London home of David Lloyd George.
1922: Joseph Stalin was appointed general secretary of the Communist Party in Russia.
1987: The late Duchess of Windsor’s jewels fetched £31 million at auction.
1991: Graham Greene, one of Britain’s leading novelists for more than 30 years, died at Vevey, Switzerland, aged 86.
2010: Apple released the iPad in the United States.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The only known wartime footage showing the lives of secret spies during the Second World War was donated to the Bletchley Park Trust.