The Press and Journal (Inverness, Highlands, and Islands)
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“There is no quick fix. This is about addressing long-term pull factors, smashing the criminal gangs that treat human beings as cargo and tackling supply chains” - Home Secretary Priti Patel gives a statement in the Commons about tackling migrant crossings after at least 27 people died when a dinghy capsized off the coast of Calais.
“I think it’s time for both our governments to stop blaming each other and to try and talk to each other and find real solutions, not a crazy solution such as having more and more people patrolling, sending the British Army to the French shore” - Pierre-Henri Dumont, MP for Calais.
“This was a devastating loss of human life – each person a child of God. Praying for all those suffering agonising grief today. We need a better system based on safety, compassion, justice and co-operation across frontiers. This cannot go on” - Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby, on the deaths in the English Channel.
“I spent the last 10 years watching you grow and we got to start seeing you grow into an amazing man. My heart aches so bad that we won’t get to see you grow into that incredible man” - Emma Whitfield pays tribute at the funeral of her 10-year-old son Jack Lis who was killed by a dog in South Wales. “Everywhere, there seems to be a call from a tiny yet very vocal minority that every male character or good role model must have a female replacement... In recent years we have seen Doctor Who, Ghostbusters, Luke Skywalker, the Equalizer all replaced by women, and men are left with the Krays and Tommy Shelby. Is there any wonder we are seeing so many young men committing crime?” - Conservative MP Nick Fletcher as he led the International Men’s Day Debate in Westminster Hall.
“It was really refreshing to me to see that I was playing someone whose daughter was in college and who had a career and yet who still had such life in her. I’m glad for the opportunity because I bring right now to this part something different than I would have in my 20s” - Brooke Shields on playing a woman her own age in romantic-comedy A Castle For Christmas.