THEY SAID WHAT?

“Today offers an opportunity to express the debt of gratitude we owe to that first Windrush generation for accepting the invitation to come to Britain and, above all, to recognise the immeasurable difference that they, their children and their grandchildren have made to so many aspects of our public life, to our culture and to every sector of our economy” - The Prince of Wales, above, pays tribute to the Windrush generation 72 years after the Empire Windrush arrived at Tilbury Docks.

“It is wholly illogical and against any sensible interpretation of the Vienna Convention to waive immunity for a member of staff and not to do so for a member of his or her household” - Sir Ivor Roberts, a former British ambassador in Serbia, Ireland and Italy, on the Anne Sacoolas immunity row

“The incident attracted worldwide attention and there’s no denying it has polarised public opinion – but in the eyes of the law, a crime has been committed and we’re duty-bound to investigate this without fear or favour” - Detective Superintendent Liz Hughes as she appealed for witnesses to the pulling-down of Bristol’s Edward Colston statue.

“Clearly sophisticated practices demonstrate that the people were so in tune with natural events to an extent that we can barely conceive in the modern world we live in today” - Dr Richard Bates, of the University of St Andrews’ School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, on the discovery of a major new prehistoric monument near Stonehenge