Who said it?

“I want to move. I feel nervous and anxious now” - Antony Lloyd, after a section of cliff the width of a football pitch collapsed on to the beach just yards from his Norfolk clifftop home.

“We told the kids we probably won’t be able to pass this house on to you” - his near-neighbour Lynne Hammond.

“We do not think there is a need to cancel people coming together in hospitality venues like that” the prime minister’s official spokesman when asked whether Christmas parties should go ahead this year. “These inquests, on any view, have raised a number of serious concerns” - coroner Sarah Munro QC at the conclusion of inquests into the deaths of killer Stephen Port’s victims, which found police mistakes “probably” contributed. “The fact is, we do face a renewed and very severe challenge in the face of the new Omicron variant. To be blunt, because of the much greater and faster transmissibility of this new variant, we may be facing, indeed we may be starting to experience, a potential tsunami of infections” - Scotland’s First Minister, Nicola Sturgeon.

“I really wanted to work with Sandra Bullock, I loved playing Jack Traven, and I loved Speed, but an ocean liner? I had nothing against the artists involved, but at that time I had the feeling it just wasn’t right” - actor Keanu Reeves on why he turned down Speed 2.

“These storms will not affect our carbon targets because the timber that has been blown down is fully utilisable” - Doug Howieson of Scottish Forestry after Storms Arwen and Barra.