The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)
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“It makes me angry to see them. It looks to me he was asked to go and thank a member of staff who was leaving, raises a glass to them and, I imagine, comes in and out pretty quick, which is presumably why the police have not issued a fixed-penalty notice to the prime minister for that event” - Transport Secretary Grant Shapps on images of Boris Johnson with a drink at a leaving party in lockdown. “Your mind goes into a place where you don’t want to do anything. You can’t make any decisions. During the worst one I had, I couldn’t get out of bed” Newsreader Huw Edwards on his worst bout of depression. “It’s one of those ‘pinch me’ moments. We’re experiencing an expansion of public transport in London we’ve not seen in more than 50 years” - Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, on the opening of the long-awaited £18.9 billion Elizabeth Line railway. “Let me just explain what was happening – behind the scenes someone was training to learn how to use the ticker... they were just writing random things not in earnest and that comment appeared” - BBC presenter after the words “Manchester United are rubbish” appeared on the news ticker. “There were about 30 people, if not more, in a room. Everyone was stood shoulder to shoulder, some people on each other’s laps” - Witness at Downing Street leaving do for Lee Cain during lockdown, according to the BBC. “We are only partway through the price cap window, but we are expecting a price cap in October in the region of £2,800” - Ofgem chief executive Jonathan Brearley.