QUOTES OF THE DAY

“Who does not love a good on-screen relationship drama? Lovers falling out, marriages breaking down and dramatic affairs of the heart are the stock-in-trade of film, soaps and the media. But when children are caught in the middle of storylines, we routinely hear ‘I’ll see you in court’, ‘I’m going for custody of little Johnny and little Sarah’, or the possessive ‘She’s my daughter’, and divorce is described as a battle to be won.”

Siobhan Baillie, Conservative MP for Stroud and a former family law solicitor, has written to the producers of soap operas Coronation Street and Eastenders to ask them to stop using outdated “custody battle” language in family breakdown plotlines

“I thought, on what planet is anyone going to let that happen? This is completely, completely wrong.”

Kate Winslet on why she donated £17,000 to pay the energy bill of Carolynne Hunter, who feared she might have to put her 12-year-old disabled daughter Freya into care because she could not afford to run the equipment to keep her alive “Nobody’s stupid. I think we all kind of probably have an idea how Sooty is working but it doesn’t matter. And I think the fact that we’re all in on the joke means that it’s been able to carry on. There’s nothing complicated about it and that’s the key to its success.”

Sooty Show TV host Richard Cadell as the popular bear prepares to

mark 75 years in showbusiness