THEY SAID WHAT?

“We are not heroes. What we do is very calculating, very calm. It’s quite the opposite”

- John Volanthen, one of the divers involved in the daring cave rescue operation in Thailand, on his return to Britain.

“Mrs May’s plan is catastrophically bad and a disaster for the Conservative Party”

- Tory MP Maria Caulfield, who resigned as a party vice chairman in protest at the Prime Minister’s Brexit withdrawal stance.

“Mrs May is an honest woman but a leader of very limited ability”

- Former Tory chancellor Lord (Nigel) Lawson.

“When I got home from tour, I had really wild dizzy spells, this feeling like I couldn’t breathe. I would be in a good mood, fine and happy, and they would hit me out of nowhere. There were a couple of months straight where I felt so upside down”

- Pop star Ariana Grande, below, on how the Manchester Arena

bombing affected her. “If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging”

- Playwright Alan Bennett.

“I had an epic game of ping-pong with Roger Federer at the top of a mountain”

- TV adventurer Bear Grylls.

“I tried Botox once. Never again. It made my forehead freeze”

- Singer Donny Osmond.