THEY SAID WHAT?

“The rise of click-bait and disinformation and fake news is putting our whole democratic discourse at risk. This is an urgent problem, shaking the foundation of democracies worldwide. Liberal democracies like Britain cannot survive without the fourth estate, and the fourth estate is under threat like never before”

- Culture Secretary Matt Hancock, later describing the Commons defeat of a proposal to further control the media as “a great day

for a free and fair press”.

“It’s absolutely marvellous. It’s going to be a very special day for everybody”

- Prince Charles on the forthcoming royal wedding.

“It’s official. I am no longer the MP for Lewisham East. I am instead the ‘Steward and Bailiff of the Manor of Northstead’. A strange title and an even stranger feeling”

- Labour’s Heidi Alexander, below, who has quit Parliament to become London’s deputy mayor for transport. “Since her 80th birthday last August, a definite continual confusion has set in, so it’s becoming a lot more difficult for us to hide”

- Scott Mitchell, revealing that his wife, film and TV star Dame Barbara Windsor, is suffering from Alzheimers.

“He is such a fighter, he will pull through. It is Fergie time, and you will win. You always do”

- Eric Cantona, former Manchester United star, speaking as Sir Alex Ferguson leaves intensive care after his brain operation.