THEY SAID WHAT?

“Decisions being made here in the Treasury right now - including huge subsidies for fossil fuels, financing massive fossil fuels projects overseas, airport expansion - have devastating consequences and are incompatible with a liveable future for my children and all children everywhere”

Extinction Rebellion protester Cathy Eastburn, 52, explains why the group sprayed “fake blood” over the front of the Treasury building in Westminster. “Claire (Foy) I thought was brilliant, I know that Olivia is going to be. It’s more interesting when you see other portraits. It builds up a much more interesting picture than someone just coming back and doing (it)” Dame Helen Mirren, 74, who won an Oscar for portraying Queen Elizabeth II, reveals she has no plans to return to the role in Netflix’s The Crown. “I wanted to do something unusual that’ll get the band noticed. I think painting in my own blood shows how physically important this band is to me. I’m literally bleeding for my art” Adam Juste, 31, frontman of West Midlands band The Adjusted, takes an unusual approach to funding the group by auctioning off paintings made with his own blood. “To remain a prisoner of existing positions is to become a cause of deadlock rather than breakthrough. So we have made a genuine attempt to bridge the chasm, to reconcile the apparently irreconcilable and to go the extra mile as time runs short” Boris Johnson on his plans to make a Brexit deal with the European Union. “Now if I’m having a bad day, I will write down how I feel, which is something I’ve learned to do from listening to other people in the pageant community and my family. My mum always says just because you’re having a bad day doesn’t mean you won’t have a happy ending the next day” Tyra-Louise Samson, 22, who was left housebound with the long-term condition fibromyalgia, on how winning Miss Beauty UK Ireland helped restore her confidence. “Since we’re going to be in Australia, it gives a whole new meaning to doing a concert Down Under. I’m not sure how much of us the sharks can take. I’m hoping they know Rock And Roll All Nite” Kiss guitarist Paul Stanley promotes the band’s upcoming concert off the coast of Australia to entertain sharks.