QUOTES of the week

‘Occasionally in London, you see famous people out and about – just not usually on a ledge.’

Passer-by Duncan Cumming, who dialled 999 after spotting Young Ones actor Ade Edmondson trapped on a first-floor ledge. He had been cleaning his windows. ‘If you take the last 11 General Elections, it’s lose, lose, lose, lose… Blair, Blair, Blair… lose, lose, lose, LOSE.’ Lord Mandelson pleads for Labour to learn the lesson of another Election defeat. ‘When does it become the Blue Wall?’

Reporter Josh Glancy sums up the swing to the Tories in the Hartlepool by-election. ‘I’m six now, I’ll do what I want.’

Princess Charlotte after her birthday last week, as Prince William reveals that his feisty daughter is growing up fast. ‘You’ve got to let me go, I’m meeting the Duke of Cambridge.’

What Aston Villa footballer Kortney Hause told Prince William he said to police after he was stopped for speeding. The Prince replied: ‘I won’t ask you how fast you were going.’ ‘I would have spent £500 on MDF and we could have given the rest to charity.’

Laurence Llewelyn-Bowen on how his Changing Rooms TV team would have tackled Boris Johnson’s expensive Downing Street makeover. ‘If you could pick up milk on the way home I’d appreciate it.’

Karlie Gray’s Twitter message to husband Neil… just after he’d won the Airdrie & Shotts seat in the Scottish Parliament election.

‘You’ve been spotted. Could you not come out of the changing room half-dressed? You cannot end up in the papers in your pants and bra!’

Samantha Cameron reveals one of the messages she received from her assistant after she went shopping alone during her time in No 10.