THEY SAID WHAT?

“We’re not going away and you will always be welcome to come back”

- European Commission vice president Frans Timmermans in a letter to the UK.

“I’m coming to search for you again today, I won’t rest until I know what’s happened to you”

- Lucy Otto in a Facebook message to her missing fiance, firefighter Anthony Knott.

“Already this morning I have killed a fox with a baseball bat. How’s your Boxing Day going?”

- Lawyer Jolyon Maugham.

“Arguably the largest challenge ever to the human race is the shape of an environmental challenge”

- Former Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, above.

“This tortoise has had a very lucky Christmas Day - he is 45 years young and will now hopefully continue to live a long and happy life”- Gary Wain, watch manager at Great Dunmow Fire Station, after a tortoise had to be rescued from a house fire which ignited when it

knocked over its heat lamp.

“Even if I wasn’t in the first scenes of the day, I had to be in before everyone else”

- Mackenzie Crook said it took three hours to transform him into Worzel Gummidge.

“I think we need to at least check out is this viable in engineering terms and how much money it would cost to do”

- Taoiseach Leo Varadkar on suggestions of a bridge between Northern Ireland and Scotland.

“I suppose I was secretly hoping for an excuse for a rest so was delighted when I spotted something a little different out of the corner of my eye”

- Mountain biker David Genney was on a trail in the Scottish highlands when he spotted a lichen found growing in Britain for the first time.