Quotes of the week

The reply given by Sir Bruce Forsyth, who died this week, when asked what he had been doing over the past 18 months We have lost a national treasure. Like millions of others, for years I watched Sir Bruce dance, sing, joke and laugh. He will be sorely missed UK Prime Minister Theresa May They kept the bells tolling through the Blitz. The Luftwaffe could not stop it but health and safety has

Labour MP Stephen Pound on the decision to silence Big Ben for four yeas to protect repair workers from its deafening sound

All of a sudden there was this screaming and hordes of people, like a tidal wave of people, fear etched in their faces, running to us

Tourist Susan Maclean describes the terror attack in Barcelona

Excuse me, when are you going to be Prime Minister?

Question put by Isla Mcchesney, aged seven, to Jeremy Corbyn during a visit to Rossendale, Lancashire

I hope all women my age are having sex, why wouldn’t they be? It’s what keeps me young The Weakest Link star Anne Robinson, 72

If you don’t do as I say, you will die TV’S Jeremy Clarkson reveals what the doctor told him when he fell ill with pneumonia

It was the time of Twiggy, and I did not look like a twig. My cheeks were too fat, legs were too short, breasts too big

Actress Dame Helen Mirren describes starting on the road to fame in the Sixties