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Opinion: Quotes of the week

"It is deeply unpatriotic" - Conservative MP and former Army colonel Patrick Mercer on the National Union of Teachers' call for an end to recruitment campaigns by the military in schools

"I pass children going to school and they always wave to me. In the UK, kids might wave but not using all of their fingers" - Constable Stewart O'Neill, who quit City of London Police to police the streets of Calgary in Canada

"Underage drinking is a huge concern in Wales but it's a sad indictment on society if we start to breathalyse children, escalating them into the criminal justice system" - Children's commissioner for Wales Keith Towler on plans to give teenagers random breath tests in Colwyn Bay.

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