The things they say

■ “I think on this day I should just really repeat that I am deeply sorry for every life that has been lost and of course as I was Prime Minister I take full responsibility for everything that the Government has done”

– Boris Johnson after the

figure for coronavirus deaths passed 100,000.

■ “This is not a year that anybody is going to want to remember nor is it a year that across the health service any of us will ever forget”

– Sir Simon Stevens, chief executive of NHS England.

■ “Having spoken to the chief executives of both of Pfizer and AstraZeneca, I am confident of the supply of vaccine into the UK won’t be disrupted”

– Health Secretary Matt

Hancock.

■ “I keep saying every Christmas I’m going to pack it in”

– Paperboy George Bailey, 80, who cycles round the

village of Headcorn, in Kent, distributing national

and local newspapers.

■ “The only way to be 100% safe was for us not to go out. We both knew that if we both got Covid, it would be extremely serious because we’ve both got underlying health problems. So it’s great, it’s a great day”

– Richard Poskitt, 77, who

had a coronavirus vaccination alongside wife Linda, 76, in Wakefield, at the first large-scale centre to open in West Yorkshire. ■ “It is with huge regret that we acknowledge the pain of those experiences and the hurt caused to women and girls who did nothing more than be pregnant outside of marriage, some of them criminally against their will. None of us should be proud of how our society shunned women in these circumstance and of their experiences while resident in these institutions”

– First Minister Arlene Foster after a report was published into the treatment of unmarried women and their children in mother and baby homes in Northern Ireland.

■ “I won’t be able to do any lifts, tricks or solo skating on the show due to my injury. I’m going to bail out gracefully with my DOI bling sling”

– Denise Van Outen who has had to withdraw from Dancing On Ice after partially dislocating her shoulder during training.

> Sir Simon Stevens, Arlene Foster and Denise Van Outen