The Courier & Advertiser (Angus and Dundee)
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“We have been deeply touched and continue to be reminded that Philip had such an extraordinary impact on countless people throughout his life” - On her 95th birthday, the Queen thanks well-wishers across the globe for the support she has received following the death of the Duke of Edinburgh. “James, I am First Lord of the Treasury and you can take it that we are backing you to do what you need” - A text from Boris Johnson to Sir James Dyson over the tax status of his workers, after he was directly lobbied by the entrepreneur when he was seeking to build ventilators at the height of the coronavirus crisis.
“I’m glad the united voice of football fans has been heard and listened to. It is now really important that we use this moment to secure the future
The Duke of Cambridge reacts to the “big six” English football clubs withdrawing from the proposed European Super League.
health of the game at all levels”
“This is the most distrustful, awful environment I’ve ever worked in, in government. Almost nobody tells the truth, is what I’ve worked out over the last 36 hours” Former veterans minister Johnny Mercer criticises the government following his departure.
“I can’t stress enough to the prime minister, if one has to, to please put this into law now, to stop people from dying”
- Rosamund Kissi-debrah urges Mr Johnson to follow recommendations on tougher legal pollution targets following the death of her daughter Ella, nine, from a fatal asthma attack in 2013. 1500: Navigator Pedro Alvarez Cabral discovered Brazil and claimed it on behalf of Portugal.
1838: The British packet steamer Sirius became the first steamship to cross the Atlantic to New York from England.
1870: Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (Lenin), Russian revolutionary leader, was born in Simbirsk.
1884: A major earthquake measuring 5.2 on the Richter Scale hit Colchester and parts of East Anglia. 1915: Germany first used poison gas at Ypres as a chemical weapon.
1933: Frederick Henry Royce, co-founder of the Rolls-royce car company, died.
1943: The printing of British £1,000 notes was discontinued.
1969: Yachtsman Robin Knox-johnston sailed into Falmouth to complete his 312-day, non-stop, roundthe-world voyage.
1989: Archaeologists said they had unearthed a 2,000-year-old mummy in a gold-covered coffin in the Egyptian oasis, Fayoum. She was wrapped in linen and dried flowers and had a child beside her. ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: On the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, the United Nations warned that decisive action was needed to tackle the accelerating issue of climate crisis.