The things they say

“My beautiful sister was a huge disco queen. She left our world almost exactly five years ago in a glitter ball coffin. This is for her ... I will channel her, as her bro can’t dance - but I’m thrilled to be dipping my toes, knees, hips and arms into this wonderful world, and hope to make her proud, and obviously make her laugh”

- Actor Greg Wise speaks about joining the line-up

of Strictly Come Dancing in tribute to his late sister.

“I thought I would like to add it to my estate, which will be going to charity after my death ... I also thought that I could put it up as a raffle prize with some of the money going to Centrepoint, which Princess Di was patron of. I will have to think of a way to stop myself from trying to eat it though”

- Royal fan Gerry Layton,

of Leeds, Yorkshire, who bought a 40-year-old slice of the Prince and Princess of Wales’s wedding cake

for £1,850 at auction. “This swim will be the most challenging of my career ... But there is a reason I’m doing this. We are an ice-dependent species. Ice keeps our planet cool enough for us to live. The polar regions and high-altitude glaciers are melting, and our collective survival is on the line”

- Endurance swimmer Lewis Pugh, who is heading to Greenland for what he describes as the coldest swim on Earth to highlight the speed at which the planet is melting. “My father would be just so proud. If he could have come (to the garden) he would have loved it. He would have loved seeing the children, he would have loved seeing that there was a space for the children and their parents while they’re going through the most emotionally difficult time, that they have somewhere that they can enjoy being together”

- Hannah Ingram-Moore, daughter of Captain Sir Tom Moore, speaks as the family officially opened the new garden of a children’s hospice, which was created with the help of a “significant” donation from the charity set up as part of his legacy.

Greg Wise, Lewis Pugh and Hannah Ingram-Moore