THEY SAID WHAT?

“The UK has lost one of its greatest regional assets,” - Flybe chief executive Mark Anderson following the announcement the company has ceased trading.

“Unfortunately, with the situation that has developed with (coronavirus), an already weak company, I’m afraid, just hasn’t been able to survive,”

- Transport Secretary Grant Shapps says coronavirus had an impact on the collapse of Flybe by reducing demand.

“It was my intention to convey in a gently self-deprecating manner the incongruity of my Boxing Day morning. I got that wrong,”

- Lawyer Jolyon Maugham apologises for the flippant way he tweeted about killing a fox with a baseball bat on Boxing Day after the RSPCA decided not to prosecute him.

“Books never lose their signal or run out of battery and they will always take you to a thousand different worlds with every turn of a page,”

- The Duchess of Cornwall tells children about the importance of reading on World Book Day.

“I think what I’ve tried to do over the years is to kind of open the door to say, ‘It’s a meal, it’s OK, don’t panic, don’t get worked up about it’,”

- Ainsley Harriott, above, reveals his ethos as he collected his MBE at Buckingham Palace.

“It was cool playing with them, I think Kate was better, she had powerful shots,”

- 10-year-old Fionn has nothing but praise for the Duchess of Cambridge’s hurling skills as she and her husband tried the sport on their visit to Ireland.