WHAT THEY SAY

You will inevitably spend the remainder of your life in custody, but that is a consequence of sentencing a man of your age for a crime of this particular gravity – Mr Justice Hilliard sentencing 75-year-old Piran Ditta Khan to a minimum of 40 years in prison for the murder of Pc Sharon Beshenivsky in 2005.

We are currently investigating an incident that was reported to us involving the Dutch artist. He will not be rehearsing until further notice – a European Broadcasting Union statement concerning Eurovision Song Contest entrant Joost Klein.

Receiving the whooping cough vaccine in pregnancy is a very effective way to protect newborns from the disease, which is most dangerous during the early weeks and months of life – Professor Adam Finn, professor of paediatrics at the University of Bristol, following fears that more babies will die unless vaccination rates go up to slow the spread of the infection.

There is no doubt it has been a difficult few years, but today’s growth figures are proof that the economy is returning to full health for the first time since the pandemic – Chancellor Jeremy Hunt after the UK economy rebounded out of recession with faster-than-expected growth over the first quarter of 2024.

The Magna Carta is rightly revered, being of great importance to our history, to our freedoms and to our laws. But there will be no freedom, no lawfulness, no rights, if we allow climate breakdown to become the catastrophe that is now threatened – the Rev Sue Parfitt from Bristol, one of two women in their 80s who smashed the glass around the Magna Carta at the British Library in a Just Stop Oil protest.

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