It's been another bumper week of news here at thedrum.co.uk. Here are the best quotes from the week's biggest media and marketing stories.

"We are entering a remarkable age of innovation, a digital renaissance,” he said, “Our aim for The Daily is to be THE indispensable source for news."
Rupert Murdoch takes the wraps off The Daily, his new digital newspaper designed exclusively for Apple's iPad.

"I have no problem with the principle of blocking access to websites used exclusively for facilitating illegal downloading of content."
Culture secretary Jeremy Hunt endorses plans, outlined in Labour's Digital Economy Act, to shut down any websites used for illegal filesharing. He has asked Ofcom to check whether this would work.

"...You can get your weekly shop done while chatting to fellow Asda shoppers who take your fancy."
Asda's Deborah Grass launches the supermarket's new... erm... dating website?!

“Today, the Scotsman is a tabloid; it sells 45,000 copies and [its] page of dedicated foreign news has disappeared."
Financial Times editor Lionel Barber fires a barb at former employer The Scotsman, deriding it as a far cry now from when it was selling 90,000 copies in its 1979 heyday.

“We are currently in the process of meeting with a number of relevant parties who along with the incumbent agencies, will be invited to take part in a pitch process."
Warburtons marketing manager, Richard Hayes, confirms The Drum's story that the baker is on the hunt for new regional PR agencies.

"Mexican cars are just going to be lazy, feckless, flatulent, overweight, leaning against a fence asleep looking at a cactus with a blanket with a hole in he middle as a coat."
Richard Hammond sparks an international diplomacy row with his comments on Top Gear.

"It's sad when a programme at the top of its game getting big audiences loses its editor.”
Question Time host David Dimbleby expresses regret at the BBC's decision to move production of the show to Glasgow, a decision which saw editor Ed Havard quit his post.

“Vicky was denied access to the tunnel on the grounds that she was a woman."
Another week, another football sexism scandal. A Man City spokesperson says the club's communications officer, Vicky Kloss, was denied access to Notts County's tunnel to brief manager and players on account of being a woman.

"I am in the process of taking legal action against twitter for not removing the page due to what they call freedom of speech...."
NDubz starlet Tulisa Contostavlos takes aim at Twitter after claiming defamatory messages about her have been spread on the social networking site and have not been removed.