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Your support makes all the difference.It seems to me that ... they are more concerned about inconveniencing gun owners than what happened to the children at that school.
John Crozier, whose daughter Emma was murdered by Thomas Hamilton, commenting on the Dunblane report
There are too many self-appointed busybodies trying to second-guess the medical profession on individual abortion cases.
Sir David Steel, architect of the 1967 Act which liberalised abortion laws
I don't like it, partly because I don't find it particularly pleasant but also, more importantly, I just don't think it works.
Hugh Colver, former Tory director of communications, on the party's controversial poster campaign
I love Paul but this is all wrong. We are talking about human life but he sees only the money he can make.
Sybil Wheeler, whose son has sold the story of his lover Mandy Allwood,who is expecting eight babies
I'm meant to be taking pictures, not having them taken of me.
Paparazzo, as news photographers show up to cover the story of the harassed Princess of Wales
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