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Quotes of the week

"By this same logic we would be banning Romeo and Juliet. That's about a group of sexually attractive males strutting round the streets, getting off with girls and stabbing each other" - Children's laureate Michael Rosen on exam board AQA's decision to remove a poem containing references to knife crime from its GCSE syllabus

"I would have been a hoodie" - Lord Norman Tebbit on how National Service stopped him choosing a different path and made him the man he is today

"When I heard about Jade Goody and what happened to her it really brought it home to me because she is so young" - Paige Butterfield, a 16-year-old pupil at Abronhill High in Cumbernauld, explains why she's keen to get vaccinated against the human papillomavirus, which is a major cause of cervical cancer.

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