A Washington Post article published on Wednesday revealed vague details of a police document that quoted a prisoner who had been placed in the same police van as Gray – though in a separate compartment – as saying Gray had been "trying to injure himself".
Smith quoted from a 1953 report by Kathleen Forest, an inspector for the government's home affairs department, who wrote: "I find these homes utterly depressing and it appals me to think that these hundreds of children are being reared in bleak lovelessness".
The Bishop of Bristol has been quoted lamenting the lack of religious programmes on BBC1.
"I married our neighbour's son when I was only 14 because my dad insisted," Ebrahimi was quoted as telling officials working on her case, according to Mehr.
Salmond will argue to his dying days – no doubt clutching a copy of a Guardian article from March 2014 which quoted an anonymous UK minister saying that "of course" a currency union would be formed – that the chancellor's intervention amounted to "bluff, bluster and bullying".
The state news channel Syria TV quoted a government official as saying two improvised explosives planted by "terrorists" blew up near the "Sons of Martyrs" school in Damascus.
The Islamic republic's state news agency, Irna, quoted Mohammad-Ali Sabour, the head of Iran's national triathlon federation, saying that Gerami had secured an official blessing and was nominated after the International Triathlon Union (ITU) agreed to set up a tent where she could change into her cycling and running clothes after swimming.
"It was a daring experiment," she quoted him as saying.
They concluded that his name could not be removed because, although he quoted the correct statute in his letter, Taylor did not specifically claim to be "incapable of fulfilling the duties of office".
A Lancet paper quoted childhood deaths in England from influenza as being two per million for under 14s.
The president highlighted the significance of Europe in underpinning the Anglo-Irish reconciliation as he quoted Tom Kettle, the Irish nationalist MP and poet who wrote of the Anglo-Irish destiny in Europe before his death on the western front in 1916.
