QUOTES OF THE DAY

“All my love and respect to you. I am sorry for what happened. Also, for our England fans and my team-mates, playing with and for you is my greatest honour and I promise to learn from my experience”

- Lioness Lauren James apologises to Michelle Alozie after she was sent off for deliberately standing on the back of the Nigeria defender.

“Gifted with a voice that moved a generation of young people, she could reduce listeners to tears by her otherworldly resonance”

- Dr Umar Al-Qadri eulogises Sinead

O’Connor. “We’ve been sort of cajoling each other... We both had major surgeries, we’ve both been talking to each other, either texting or phoning, it’s a tough old time. Even though she’s sort of better and I’m sort of better, you’re not quite yourself for a while, it takes it out of you”

- Veteran broadcaster Nick Owen on his and former co-host Anne Diamond’s, above, relationship after both being diagnosed with “male/ female cancers” within the same year.

“Billy’s work represents true milestones in cinema, a list which will never be forgotten; certainly The French Connection, The Exorcist and Sorcerer, but all of his films are alive with his genius. Pick any of them out of a hat and you’ll be dazzled. His lovable, irascible personality was a cover for a beautiful, brilliant, deep-feeling giant of a man. It’s very hard to grasp that I will never enjoy his company again, but his work will at least stand in for him”

- Francis Ford Coppola on William

Friedkin, the director of The Exorcist, who has died at the age of

87.