“Finally, finally, finally. This certainly sends a message, I think, to the criminals and to the thugs that justice reigns in Neshoba County”
Jim Prince, editor of The Neshoba Democrat, after a jury found Edgar Ray Killen, 80, guilty of manslaughter of three civil rights workers in Mississippi, 41 years ago
“I’ll have about ten double vodkas. Then I’m pretty much KO’d. But if I’m in London, the club owners give me free bottles of champagne. I hate champagne. I still drink it, though.”
Charlotte Church, the singer and wild child
“We must invest in innovation and training, not promote every cow with two euros a day. The rest of the world is not waiting for us”
Tony Blair, writing in the German newspaper, Bild, says it is not acceptable for the EU to pay seven times more on agriculture than on research, technology and education
“I know a lot of people were upset they didn’t get tickets but you can’t get a quart of milk into a pint bottle”
Michael Eavis, the founder of the Glastonbury Festival, which starts today
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“He doesn’t know how to be around girls, which is great because he’s a character for anyone who’s ever been awkward with a girl. Which is probably every male anywhere in the world”
Daniel Radcliffe, the actor who plays Harry Potter