The Press and Journal (Aberdeen and Aberdeenshire)
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“It is really important that we remember that there are thousands of councillors all around the country who are going to be standing for election in May. We need people to focus on what they have been doing to help their local communities and not be obsessed with Westminster psychodrama” - Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch says Tory plotters seeking to oust Rishi Sunak should “stop messing around” and end the “Westminster psychodrama”.
“Having him there meant that I felt safe and looked-after, and I knew, in the production and in the post, he’d look after me. So actually it’s kind of liberating to work with your family, I may do it again” Elizabeth Hurley says she found it “liberating” to be directed by her 21-year-old son Damian.
“It’s been in my head a little while, the sacrifices of leaving the children and your family at home is really quite big and it really is a big decision to make. More and more, I was struggling to do that. More people asking me what races was I doing, what training camps was I going on – I didn’t want to go ultimately and that’s what it came down to” - Dame Laura Kenny, Britain’s most successful female Olympic athlete, announces her retirement from cycling.
“It’s just great – when we read about it last night, we knew we had to come and see it as soon as possible. We feel so proud to think he chose our street” - Lidia Guerra, a resident of Hornsey Road in Islington, north London, says she is “proud” anonymous street artist Banksy chose her street for his latest work, a mass of green sprayed on a wall behind a bare tree made to appear as its foliage.