I'm fascinated by politicians, because I suspect the huge majority of them go into it full of ideas and for the best possible reasons but end up being hijacked.

With something like cancer, there is a feeling that you can fight it in some way or control your response to it, but with dementia there is the fear of losing control of your mind and your life.

I'm not interested in more money for the sake of it.

My family have been around Northumberland for five generations.

I wish people would take more care of the countryside.

I'm very good at being out of work.

My mum Mary was always a bright, confident and fiercely independent lady.