THEY SAID WHAT?

“I met him recently to apologise personally for the great damage the Metropolitan Police investigation into Carl Beech’s false allegations has had on him and his family. I was struck by his selflessness and generosity in the issues he wanted to discuss, focusing on a desire to ensure the lessons from Operation Midland had been learnt by the Met”

Metropolitan Police Commissioner Cressida Dick following the death of Lord Bramall.

“I would just say to people - the emergency services do have sound advice. When they advise you to evacuate, you should do so”

Prime Minister Boris Johnson, following a Cobra emergency committee meeting to discuss flooding.

“It stinks like dead bodies. The smell is rotten, there’s sewage in it. It’s all destroyed”

Devastated Doncaster resident Emma King, 36, whose home has been flooded.

“I feel very nervous about it all because a cyber attack against a political party in an election is suspicious, something one is very worried about”

Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn after the party suffered a second cyber attack on its digital platforms within 24 hours.

“The velocity of the discovered star is so high that it will inevitably leave the Galaxy and never return”

Douglas Boubert, from the University of Oxford, who co-authored a study on an ultra-fast star which was ejected by the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way five million years ago.

“Once again, they’ve made me an offer I can’t refuse. But this is the very last time I’m doing this, which could make for a fun evening”

Ricky Gervais announces he will host the Golden Globe Awards next year for the fifth and final time.

“When it’s not in front of you it doesn’t exist so I just got rid of it”

Strictly professional dancer Katya Jones said she deleted Twitter so she could ignore nasty comments about her routines with partner Mike Bushell who was axed from the show on Sunday.