Western Morning News (Saturday)
The things they say
“I don’t feel boycotted by Hollywood because I don’t think about Hollywood. I don’t have much further need for Hollywood, myself”
- Johnny Depp speaking at the Cannes Film Festival. “I think there is a kind of existential threat to the UK car industry”
- Professor David Bailey, from Birmingham Business School, after Vauxhall’s parent company Stellantis said it will be unable to keep a commitment to make electric vehicles in the UK without changes to the Brexit deal.
“Patients are not dying because nurses are striking, nurses are striking because our patients are dying”
- Pat Cullen who heads the Royal
College of Nursing. “I was very clear over the summer, I wanted to make sure our green spaces are protected. I think that is what local communities want”
- Prime Minister Rishi Sunak rules out allowing building on the green belt after Labour backed the move to alleviate the housing crisis. “I’ve lost a child and other parents have lost two sons who have committed this offence. This violence has to stop, carrying weapons has to stop. I have lost my son and I would not wish this on anyone else”
- Charlie Mclean, the mother of 15-year-old Khayri Mclean, who was stabbed to death as he walked home from school.
“Obviously it’s been a big few weeks for his majesty and the family but we are all very excited about being here today. It will be a pleasure to meet our King today. I have always been a huge royalist and I was brought up to love the royal family”
- David Beckham meets the King at a prestigious fashion award ceremony in London.