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'I can't deny I prefer young women': The week in quotes

Here’s what was said and who said what this week.

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But I am just making the point, I mean, I can’t deny the fact that I prefer young women. Different people have different preferences.

Simon Danczuk, a Labour MP for Rochdale in northern England, faced questions about lewd texts he sent to a teenage girl.

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He’ll cut the head off Isis.

A snippet from US Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump’s bombastic campaign ad.

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If I was a scientist or inventor, I wish that I could make a time machine, go back in time and see what my birth mom was like, and how she looked and what her personality was like.

Liwen Flanagan on planning to meet her birth mother.

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He’s my grandson. I can’t disown him. I know him very well. He’s propaganda. They are just using a small boy. They are just using him as a shield.

Sunday Dare told Channel 4 News that a child featured in the latest Islamic State propaganda video is his grandson.

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If a person goes out and has a little drink, they were hurting no one, they weren’t causing accidents, they weren’t killing people.

Independent TD Michael Healy-Rae hit out at drink-driving laws.

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When every local authority required assistance they got it. Every single thing they asked for, they got it.

Minister for the Environment Alan Kelly praised the work “Trojan” work of local authority staff during recent flooding, while defending the government’s response.

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What happened is a new form of organized crime.

German Justice Minister Heiko Maas speaking about an attack on woman by thousands of men of Arab or Middle Eastern descent in the centre of Cologne.

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Honest to God, that felt like Christmas Day.

Welsh woman Rhian Johnson after a bionic eye allowed her to see again.

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