QUOTES OF THE DAY

“I’m very lucky I’ve got a big vegetable garden, but you get the mice, the voles this year, all ate the asparagus roots and then they got into the strawberries, so you can never win, there’s always something”

The Duchess of Cornwall on her gardening challenges

“It’s not the case that all women are seeking to flee the country, it’s not the case that all women are just staying behind closed doors, there are some women who are standing up for their rights and the rights of other women, and we want to be supporting women in whatever choices they are making”

Former acting Labour leader Harriet Harman wants Britain to help Afghanistan’s female population

“It could have been magical. Instead it felt like it was a money-making exercise”

A visitor is left disappointed after visiting Buckingham Palace’s gardens