Quotes of the week

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people things they do not want to hear

George Orwell’s statue is unveiled outside the BBC in London where the

writer once worked

My dad knew I was going to be a comedian. When I was a baby he said: Is this is a joke?

Sir Ken Dodd celebrates

his 90th birthday

Glad to see the Dambusters are still here

The Queen makes Britain’s last

surviving Dambuster,

George

‘Johnny’

Johnson, an MBE

I’ll sleep very soundly. I rather doubt I’ll be mentioned as I happily pay my taxes

Ex England striker Gary Lineker tweets about his tax affairs days before being named in the Paradise Papers

scandal

I never imagined I would recoil from watching Coronation Street

Corrie fan and chat show host Michael Parkinson attacks the soap’s violent storylines

When we asked him who had done it, he joyfully shouted, me!

Toddler Zeb Porritt’s mum Ellen reveals how

the two-year-old confessed to smearing their home with black poster paint while she

answered the phone

We used to be dinner ladies, now we’re winner ladies

Hospital canteen worker Julie Saunders and her five colleagues in Port Talbot scoop a £25m lotto jackpot

I’m like Victoria Beckham... you know, when she’s really, really, really hungry, she has a piece of lettuce

Broadcaster Anne Robinson reveals

she’s permanently

on a diet.