Quotes of the week

I’ve been very, very busy... being ill

The reply given by Sir Bruce Forsyth, who died

this week, when asked what he had been doing over the past 18 months

We have lost a national treasure. Like millions of others, for years I watched Sir Bruce dance, sing, joke and laugh. He will be sorely missed

Prime Minister Theresa May

They kept the bells tolling through the Blitz. The Luftwaffe could not stop it but health and safety has

Labour MP

Stephen Pound on the decision to silence Big Ben for four yeas to protect repair workers from its deafening sound

All of a sudden there was this screaming and hordes of people, like a tidal wave of people, fear etched in their faces, running to us

Tourist Susan Maclean describes the terror attack in Barcelona

Excuse me, when are you going to be Prime Minister?

Question put by Isla McChesney, aged seven, to Jeremy Corbyn during a visit to Rossendale,

Lancashire

I hope all women my age are having sex, why wouldn’t they be? It’s what keeps me young

The Weakest Link star

Anne Robinson, 72

If you don’t do as I say, you will die

TV’s Jeremy Clarkson reveals what the doctor told him when he fell ill

with pneumonia

It was the time of Twiggy, and I did not look like a twig. My cheeks were too fat, legs were too short, breasts too big

Actress Dame Helen Mirren describes starting on the road to fame in the Sixties