WHAT THEY SAY

I don’t want to bully people or to lecture them but, well I don’t mind lecturing them, I’ll lecture them: I think it is a great thing to do for yourself, your family, your community. I think people should get a jab and it is a wonderful thing to do - Boris Johnson on reports that three

professionals have refused to be vaccinated.

The truth is, if we did not act, then by this weekend, or certainly by the early part of next week, some of the poultry processing plants would need to close, and then we would have animal welfare issues - because you would have lots of chickens on farms that couldn’t be slaughtered on time and would have to be euthanised on farms. We would have a similar situation with pigs - Environment Secretary George Eustice defends spending taxpayers’ money on CF Fertilisers’ running costs to prevent a food supply shortage at Britain’s supermarkets.

“After 2,000 days of disappointments and let-downs, I do sometimes wonder what will get the Government to bring Nazanin and the others home?

What will end the years of drift, or get the Prime Minister to deliver on his word? - Richard Ratcliffe, the husband of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe, who is detained in Iran.

Now the sex of the penguin chicks has been established it is a celebratory moment for the aquarium. We wanted to name our new females after two standout women of the past 18 months - Catherine Pritchard, of Sea Life London Aquarium, on naming two penguin chicks after tennis star Emma Raducanu and vaccine developer Dame Sarah Gilbert.