Who said it?

“I am really upset not to win but the fight is not over. The judges might not think it discriminates against me, the government might not think it discriminates against me, but I am telling you that I do feel discriminated against... and the verdict doesn’t change how I and thousands in the Down’s syndrome community feel,” - Heidi Crowter, 26, who has lost a High Court challenge against the government over legislation which allows the abortion of babies with Down’s syndrome up until birth.

“It’s going to be more challenging to get hold of a real Christmas tree this festive season. However if you are able to get one, you can expect to be paying more than you would have in previous years.” - Mark Rofe, owner of ChristmasTrees.co.uk on a potential shortage this year.

“It’s 2,000 days of ups and downs and twists and turns and false dawns, and snakes and ladders seemed to encapsulate that because we’re in the middle of a game between two governments, we’re just a bargaining chip in it,”

- Richard Ratcliffe marks 2,000 days of his wife, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, being detained in Iran.

“The world – this precious blue sphere with its eggshell crust and wisp of an atmosphere – is not some indestructible toy, some bouncy plastic romper room against which we can hurl ourselves to our heart’s content. Daily, weekly, we are doing such irreversible damage that long before a million years are up, we will have made this beautiful planet effectively uninhabitable – not just for us but for many other species,” - Prime Minister Boris Johnson in an address to the United Nations General Assembly.