THEY SAID WHAT?

“There is a risk that some people will not obey the guidelines, that’s always going to be there. But the overwhelming majority of people have and so far we think that the measures and the package is working. But we cannot be complacent, we really can’t afford to stuff this up, to blow it now. We have got to keep going in the prudent way that we are”

- Boris Johnson urges discipline after lockdown restrictions were

eased in England.

“When we heard last night, we slept for the first time since March. It is a real vindication that we have been listened to and that the Government understand that we were dying on our knees and also that we are an important part of our country’s recovery. So we are very pleased for this intervention that will hopefully get us from here to April” - Young Vic artistic director Kwame Kwei-Armah, above, welcomes the Government’s £1.57bn arts support package.

“Ennio was an icon and icons just don’t go away, icons are forever. It really has taken me by surprise, as he was still touring. I saw him about a year ago. He seemed strong. He was conducting at the O2”

- Hans Zimmer remembers fellow composer Ennio Morricone, following his death aged 91.

“I’ve only had two weeks’ proper experience of lockdown on my own and it’s already wrecking my head. I’ve only had to isolate myself for two weeks and I’m losing it. I’ve just had a crew here filming Gogglebox and I just didn’t want them to leave” - Johnny Vegas on the challenges faced by cancer patients during the pandemic as he joined a Zoom call with a woman diagnosed with breast cancer.