The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)

Who said it?

- Elvis Presley was born this day in 1935.

“There are reports that some energy companies want a £20 billion handout to keep household bills down. Not British Gas. We haven’t asked for a bailout, we don’t want a bailout, and we oppose any bailouts”

- Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica.

“Outside of healthcare, staffing shortages are closing shops and cancelling trains but nurses can’t stop helping their patients. Instead, they find themselves spread thinner and thinner, but they can’t keep spinning plates indefinite­ly either – this situation is simply not safe”

- Patricia Marquis, the Royal College of Nursing’s director for England on staffing issues due to Covid.

“The story of Hillsborou­gh is not an outlier. There are countless other injustices that follow the same pattern. It is time that we broke that cycle and put integrity back at the heart of our justice system”

- Steve Rotheram, mayor of the Liverpool City Region as fresh calls were made for a Hillsborou­gh Law.

“My experience with prison has emboldened me to take any future action regardless of if prison is a consequenc­e”

- Insulate Britain protester Louis McKechnie, 21, who was jailed for blocking the M25.

“Trial by jury is an important guardian of liberty and must not be undermined. However, the decision in the Colston statue case is causing confusion”

- Attorney General Suella Braverman considers referring the case in which four people were cleared of tearing down a statue of slave trader Edward Colston to the Court of Appeal to give senior judges the chance to clarify the law for future cases, which would not affect the result of this case.

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