QUOTES of the week

‘If we fail to act we are looking at an almost unthinkable scenario where antibiotics no longer work and we are cast back into the dark ages of medicine.’

David Cameron says people are dying of infections now resistant to common treatments.

‘I went to Alcoholics Anonymous in Stockholm. I couldn’t understand a word but it still helped.’

Rocker Ozzy Osbourne stays on the wagon even when on tour.

‘Your reputation now lies in ruin, you have been stripped of your honours but you have no one to blame but yourself.’

Mr Justice Sweeney sentences Rolf Harris to more than five years in prison for sex assaults.

‘I’d look in the mirror and think, “Who the hell is she?” I didn’t know what I thought or felt about anything.’

Cheryl Cole says she suffered a nervous breakdown after being cut from The X Factor USA.

‘We don’t get up early enough, we don’t work hard enough, we’re not ambitious enough.’

Michael Heseltine details why Britain lags behind its rivals when it comes to productivity.

‘A depressing number of men feel they can just write the most hideously misogynistic stuff about women.’

Newsreader Fiona Bruce, describes online vitriol towards women.

‘The difference between Tim Howard and Jesus? Jesus had 11 guys he could trust.’

Tweet by a football fan after the US lost a World Cup match to Belgium despite the keeper’s heroics.

‘I’m walking down the road and suddenly out of the blue there’s an awareness of her and I buckle, so I have to duck into a lane and blub.’

Bob Geldof grieves for his daughter Peaches.

‘I’ve made it a rule in life not to answer maths questions.’

Chancellor George Osborne when asked by a schoolboy for the answer to seven multiplied by eight.

‘I ran into the room shouting – not a girly scream, but a deep, loud, roaring, dominant boom – got in close and right-hooked him.’

Gia Milinovich, wife of TV scientist Brian Cox, relates how she tackled an intruder.