Quotes of the week

This is the sound of a new Iron Curtain, which has come down and is closing Russia off from the civilised

world

Ukraine’s president Volodymyr

Zelensky describes the Russian bombardment of

his country I must have a very strong guardian angel Teacher Olena Kurilo, whose

bloodied face has symbolised

Ukraine’s defiance, describes her narrow escape after rockets

struck her home This is the best book ever, and I just want everyone to buy it, I’m so proud of myself and every other author

Bella-Jay Dark, five,

becomes the world’s youngest author after a

story about a lost cat is taken up by a publisher Wordle 121 25/6 Paul McCartney tweets

the number of days until June

25 above six green squares believed to spell Glasto – confirming he’ll

appear at Glastonbury I could not believe it... We don’t get millionaires in here

Boss Hong Lu Gu is ordered to change his

Barrow-in-Furness takeaway’s name from China Tang because it’s

the same as the restaurant in London’s posh Dorchester hotel

300 miles away Never knowingly undersold

John Lewis ditches its price promise after 97

years The sun is shining but we’re keeping our umbrella

Boris

Johnson announces the

end of Covid curbs I’ve had geese come after me before, but never a pheasant. It was biting everything in sight, including my bike

Postman Mark Brough faces a daily battle with a marauding pheasant in

Cheddleton, Staffs