THEY SAID WHAT?

“Dear Father Christmas. Can you help? Can we have a home for Christmas? Mam wants us to be all together. Can you give us some food and can I have just a nice doll for Christmas? Thank you”

A letter from a seven-year-old child found in a Christmas postbox at the L6 Community Centre in Everton, Liverpool.

“It was a state dinner for the Saudi royal family and he made racist comments about Arabs that were unbelievable”

Former home secretary Jacqui Smith alleges the Duke of York (pictured) made racist remarks.

“HRH has undertaken a considerable amount of work in the Middle East over a period of years and has many friends from the region. He does not tolerate racism in any form”

Buckingham Palace responds to Ms Smith’s allegation.

“We’ve got a jigsaw puzzle that is almost complete, except for one piece. So we have not, and will never have, complete justice for the murder of our sister”

Anne Cleave, the sister of Elsie Frost who was killed in 1965, after West Yorkshire Police revealed they had been close to charging Peter Pickering, 80, before he died in 2018.

“No apology will be sufficient or adequate for families who lost loved ones to avoidable deaths, or whose experience of becoming a parent was blighted by poor care and avoidable harm”

Maternity expert Donna Ockenden in her report into failures at Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust.

“I had a chocolate milkshake on the way there and I’ll be having Champagne when I get home”

Jockey Racheal Kneller, who stepped in at the last minute to ride Ruacana and won the Flat Jockeys Can Jump Handicap Hurdle at Lingfield after having a McDonald’s on the way there.

“There’s so much negativity and bad press so when you have something like this it is obviously heart-warming to know the people you live with, your neighbours, have so much honesty and integrity”

Gaynor Crute, chairwoman of Monk Hesleden Parish Council, after people handed to police 13 cash bundles of £2,000 found in Blackhall Colliery, County Durham.