“I couldn’t believe it. I was shocked at first, these were school boys in their school uniforms.”

Documentary-maker Tooli Nhlapo tells the BBC how some South Africans are recreationally smoking drugs meant to help treat AIDS.

“We are starting to get to the point that when an adverse weather event occurs we can quantify how much more likely it was made by human activity. And people adversely affected by climate change today are in a position to document and quantify their losses.”

Myles Allen, a physicist at Oxford University, tells the Guardian people could soon be suing oil companies over climate change (see also his Nature commentary from 2003 on this topic).

“Like so much of nature, it must hint at the menace that lurks in all beauty.”

Kathleen McFarlane comments on her work. The artist, who the Daily Telegraph explains “subverted the domestic arts of weaving, tapestry and crochet work to create fantastical and often disturbing images and forms reminiscent of sea monsters, huge fungal growths — and worse” has died at the age of 86.

“Someone saw we were doing well and decided to put their hand in the honeypot.”

Joseph Costard, head of the Normandy shellfish farmers committee, comments on an outbreak of oyster rustling in France (Guardian).