Quotes of the week

“We are united in our loss with our greater family.”
The de Marco family on how the public’s outburst of respect and love helped them deal with the loss of President Emeritus Guido de Marco.

“I know judges who are 80 years old and... possibly sharper than me.”
Retiring judge Carmel Agius urging the government to allow judges to continue serving past 65 when they were still in their prime.

“...discriminated in favour of the bidders.”
The European Commission stating the government favoured bidders of diesel engines when it raised the emissions threshold in the case of the Delimara power station extension.

“One boy slid down the back glass onto the boot.”
A bar owner recounting his shock at discovering two English language students jumping on the roof of his Alfa Romeo at 3 a.m.

“I immobilised his wrists in a painful gooseneck brace.”
North Yorkshire police officer Rick Harper describing how him and his friend caught a Russian who had just robbed a Sterling Jewellers outlet.

“It is all a big mystery to us.”
The cousin of Mario Dimech, who died in the Mosta fireworks explosion, on how everyone was still baffled by what could have caused this tragedy.