They say.

"They want us to get our lives back, and life for us at the moment is travelling and sailing" - Rachel and Paul Chandler, who were held hostage by Somali pirates for more than a year, on the reaction of their family and friends to their plans to finish their round-the-world sailing trip.

"The rain doesn't matter. Being here does" - French president Francois Hollande on visiting the graves of thousands of British soldiers killed in Normandy on D-Day. "The only British drama import that I watch is Downton Abbey. We like British people behaving very Britishly" - Mad Men star Jon Hamm.

"I can't imagine anything worse than doing politics all day, then reading about it all night" - Nick Clegg, Deputy Prime Minister, who says he "religiously" reads a few pages of fiction every night before he goes to sleep.