Western Morning News (Saturday)
The things they say
“The first time I met her was in 1977 when I was just a little boy. When I would meet with her as Prime Minister almost four decades later in 2015, I joked that the last time that we had met she had been taller than me - she responded with a quip about my making her feel old. Her sense of humour was one of her many great qualities and one of the many reasons why she was one of my favourite people in the world”
- Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau paying tribute to the
late Queen during a special session of his country’s House
of Commons. “In one sense, the people here stand for all those in the country who would like to be here and can’t be. I think it shows a sense of deep affection for the stability that the Queen represented and gave us”
- the Archbishop of Canterbury,
Justin Welby, on the tens of
thousands queuing to pay their respects to the late monarch at Westminster Hall.
“To my tennis family and beyond. Of all the gifts that tennis has given me over the years, the greatest, without a doubt, has been the people I’ve met along the way: my friends, my competitors, and most of all the fans who give the sport its life.”
- Tennis star Roger Federer announcing his retirement.
“In St Paul’s words, let us comfort one another with words of faith - faith in each other, faith in God and faith in the belief that Olivia’s untimely death will lead to a community here in Liverpool without violence, that it will become a place of peace and justice”
- Archbishop of Liverpool Malcolm McMahon to the congregation at the funeral of nine-year-old shooting victim Olivia Pratt-Korbel.