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“These data come from the hardest group to protect – those who are the frailest, the oldest adults in our population – and we’re seeing an 80% reduction in hospitalisation in that group, which is stunning” - Professor Andrew Pollard, director of the Oxford Vaccine Group, welcomes real-world data on the effectiveness of the Oxford and Pfizer vaccines.

“It rocks a boat that they don’t want rocking but there are people dying. It’s taken a month to get the paperwork from the coroner’s court in Sheffield to the HQ in Sheffield and it’s still not here. And, in that month, there have been five serious accidents on smart motorways” - Claire Mercer, whose husband Jason died on a smart motorway, demands an investigation into Highways England over his death.

“We will make sure it is an event everyone can get involved in and it will truly celebrate his generosity of spirit, the hope and joy he brought to millions and his sense of fun” - Hannah Ingram-moore, daughter of Captain Sir Tom Moore, says her father’s life will be celebrated through an event on what would have been his 101st birthday on April 30. “Don’t allow yourself to be pushed around by the zeitgeist of the day. Take a longer-term view of things, make sure you do things in a rigorous way and understand that your principal duty is to preserve and conserve our heritage”

- Culture Secretary Oliver Dowden, speaking at the Policy Exchange UK thinktank’s History Matters Conference, says institutions in the UK should act as “custodians” of cultural heritage and not seek to erase certain aspects of it.