QUOTES of the year

‘BBC rules mean that Carrie Gracie can’t discuss Carrie Gracie if Carrie Gracie is presenting the programme discussing Carrie Gracie.’

Today editor Sarah Sands

after the BBC’s China Editor was stopped from covering her own gender pay row in January.

‘Zis means war.’

German journalist Tanit Koch

jokes in February after learning that Thomas Cook holidaymakers can now reserve hotel sunloungers.

‘Brits are calling it the Beast From The East. Finns are calling it Wednesday.’

Twitter user Gertjan Filarski

isn’t impressed by our reaction to a cold snap in March.

‘Dickens’s A Tale Of Two Cities was f irst serialised in two local newspapers. It was the Bicester Times and it was the

Worcester Times.’

TV star Richard Osman

tweets in March a clever reworking of the novel’s opening lines.

‘That Versace dress was fabulous – you think I’m going to cover it up with a coat and scarf?’

Jennifer Lawrence

explains why she defied freezing conditions in February

‘I haven’t seen this many Australians crying since Scott and Charlene got married.’

Commentator Jane Merrick

in the wake of a cricket balltampering scandal in the same month.

‘Rome wasn’t built in a day. That was Birkenhead.’

Banner

spotted near the Colosseum before Liverpool’s Champions League semi-final in May.

‘Racism is not a known side effect of our medication.’

Drug-maker Sanofi

after comedienne Roseanne Barr blamed its sleeping pill Ambien in June for her racist tweets.

‘East Fife 4, Forfar 5.’

Penalty shoot-out score

in July replicates Eric Morecambe’s famous football one-liner.

‘I’ve told him there will be no Septimus and no Octopus. I’ve had enough.’

Helena Rees-Mogg

warns her Tory MP husband Jacob in October that sixth child Sixtus will be their last.

‘I honestly thought there’d be a caravan round the back doing bacon sandwiches.’

I’m A Celebrity’s Harry Redknapp

is surprised by the show’s spartan conditions in November.