The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Who said it
“We must harness the ingenuity and resolve that has been revealed in the struggle against Covid-19 and use it to create a stronger, healthier and more prosperous nation” - Boris Johnson speaks to Parliament following the Queen’s Speech. “This Queen’s Speech merely papers over the cracks, it’s packed with short-term gimmicks and distant promises. It misses the urgency and the scale of the transformation that’s needed in our economy, in our public services and our society, and it lacks the ambition or a plan to achieve it” - Sir Keir Starmer takes aim at the government’s plans announced at the State opening of Parliament.
“I am desperately saddened that more than 1,000 very hard-working people have lost their jobs at Greensill. Likewise I take full responsibility for any hardship being felt by our clients and their suppliers, and investors”
- Lex Greensill speaking to the Commons Treasury Committee on the firm’s collapse.
“The Ballymurphy families have had to battle too hard and too long to finally hear that truth at the inquest ruling into their loved ones’ deaths. They have carried themselves with courage and fortitude throughout the last 50 years. This is vindication” Alliance leader and Northern Ireland Justice Minister Naomi Long on the verdicts in the Ballymurphy inquests.
“It’s a story driven entirely by the music, a rock and roll experience, told in the moment, like a visual stream of consciousness that is built around the extensive archive footage from the event” - Jake Scott on a documentary he is directing on Oasis’s two nights at Knebworth in 1996.
On this day
1812: Limerick writer Edward Lear, author of The Book Of Nonsense, was born in London.
1820: Lady of the Lamp Florence Nightingale, hospital reformer who tended the wounded during the Crimean War, was born in Italy.
1926: The TUC called off the General Strike after nine days.
1932: The kidnapped baby son of aviator Charles Lindbergh was found dead.
1935: Self-help group Alcoholics Anonymous was founded by Bill Wilson in Ohio.
1937: The coronation of King George VI took place in Westminster Abbey and was broadcast worldwide by the BBC.
1949: The Soviet blockade of Berlin ended after 11 months. It had cost the Allies £200 million to fly in food and essential supplies.
1967: John Masefield, poet laureate since 1930, died.
2008: An earthquake measuring around 8.0 magnitude occurred in Sichuan, China, killing more than 69,000 people.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: A fire at a hospital in St Petersburg killed five coronavirus patients who were on ventilators, Russian emergency officials said.