QUOTES OF THE DAY

This man’s normally plastered in gold.” What the Queen said to the Duke of Edinburgh about Paralympian multi-gold medallist Lee Pearson.

It changed my attitude to life, realising how precious life is and how important life and death are – they are the only two important things really. It took Aberfan to show me that.” Bob Trevor, of the former London Evening News, recalls being one of the first reporters on the scene at Aberfan.

You start whining before the game’s even over? Then you don’t have what it takes to be in this job.” US President Barack Obama rebukes Donald Trump, the Republican candidate for the White House.

He’s such a flagrant toxic narcissist.” Rock star Bruce Springsteen on Donald Trump.

In London, there is an urgent need to link up the city’s green spaces with a network of hedgehog superhighways. We are not talking Crossrail here. Everyone can help. Let’s get London’s hedgehogs moving.” Historian Tom Holland.