Quotes of the week

It looks like the gates of hell at the end of space and time

Professor Heino Falcke,

of Radboud University, Holland, unveils the first

image of a black hole

How on earth am I going to keep two million people switched on every Sunday listening to the same people saying the same stuff?

Broadcaster Andrew Marr isn’t pleased with the Halloween extension

to Brexit

Voting Conservative for the first time used to be when you got your first pay cheque - now it’s when you get your first winter fuel payment

Tory health secretary

Matt Hancock admits the party needs to attract young voters

Always look on the bright side of life...

Monty Python star Eric Idle reassures fans he’s OK after an anthrax scare

at his Hollywood home

Sorry everybody... it is a bit pumpkin like

Good

Morning

Britain

host

Richard

Madeley apologies for overdoing

his fake tan make-up

You may not know it, but there’s a frisson of excitement in bell ringing

Comic Jo Brand remembers bell ringing

as a schoolgirl

I’m never going to be the most handsome or tallest, so I’m quite happy

Beer drinker Nick West is voted Britain’s dullest man after collecting

9,000 empty cans.

Don’t mention the war

Fawlty Towers is named the best sitcom of

all time.

A silver Mercedes raced towards ambassador Natalia Galibarenko’s parked car, forcing police to shoot at the driver through the window.

A man in his 40s was arrested following the drama in the exclusive Holland Park area. He was uninjured but taken to hospital as a precaution.

Witnesses claim as many as 10 shots rang out as firearms officers tried to stop the attack before a cordon was thrown up around the scene.

Embassy spokesman Denys Sienik said the car slammed into the ambassador’s vehicle as it sat parked outside.

When the driver was blocked by cops, it is thought he first drove at them – then tried to evade them by going into reverse and hit the official car again.

Mr Sienik added: “The culprit was apprehended. None of the embassy staff were injured. Police are investigating the suspect’s identity and motive.”

Police sealed off a street near the embassy after the incident just before 10am yesterday. Scotland Yard revealed that a Taser had also been used in a bid ARRESTED Suspect lies on ground surrounded by cops

to stop the driver and that the incident was not being treated as terror-related.

A neighbour who witnessed the arrest believed the suspect reversed into the ambassador’s motor while backing away from an oncoming police car.

Emma Slatter, who is Visa’s legal chief, watched the scene unfold with her banker partner David Hinsley.

She said: “We could see two police cars at this end of the road and one about half way down. It seemed like he was wanting to move away from being boxed in and collided backwards.”

The couple, both in their 50s, instinctively ducked away from the window when the shooting started.

When the firing died down Emma saw police had a man on the ground. She added: “There were probably about 10