The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)
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“So there’s a stark choice: carry on with the prime minister’s approach, which will lead to weeks and weeks and months and months of prolonged agony in all your constituencies for millions of people in Tier 2 and Tier 3, with no exit, or put in place a two-to-three week time-limited circuit-break to break the cycle and bring it back under control” - Sir Keir Starmer. “There’s no way we come out of this wave now without counting our deaths in the tens of thousands” - Professor John Edmunds of the Government’s Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies.
“The knock-on effects of coronavirus have been felt widely, but the impact on cancer treatment has been one of the most acute and challenging” - The Duke of Cambridge on a visit to the Royal Marsden’s south London hospital.
“It was clearly a difficult moment for the Government. It was a mistake – whether everyone should quit every time they make a mistake, I don’t think is right. But it clearly undermined the Government’s coherent narrative about people following the rules” - Former head of the Civil Service, Lord Sedwill, on Dominic Cummings’ trip to County Durham.
“The number of children with little to no access to food has risen significantly” - England footballer Marcus Rashford maintains his free school meals campaign.
“I am heartbroken to see the senseless brutality in Nigeria. There has be to be an end to Sars” - Beyonce pledges her support for protesters in Nigeria demonstrating against the controversial Special AntiRobbery Squad.