“Institutionalised fleecing.”

The Malta Hotels and Restaurants Association condemning the Transport Ministry’s decision to charge tourists higher bus fares.

“Nothing strange.”

Air Malta CEO Joe Cappello brushing aside suggestions there was anything mysterious about his absence from the airline’s restructuring talks.

“Children regard text messages as ‘reading’.”

The National Book Council on its mission to reverse this trend by encouraging more bedtime reading at a young age.

“More concerned with clearing up than bothering to see how I was.”

A 33-year-old woman, who narrowly escaped being crushed by 40 gypsum bags that fell off a crane tower in Sliema, describing the workers’ reaction.

“I plan to have his portrait tattooed... as close to my heart as possible.”

Isaac Wood on plans to keep the memory of his father, popular tattooist Il-Bobby, alive.

“Prostitute.”

The last word Ukrainian Sergii Nykytiuk told his wife Liudmyla in a fit of jealousy before her fatal fall, it emerged in court.