The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)

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“As for jobs, I’m going to get on with mine and I hope he gets on with his” - Boris Johnson, during exchanges with Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer in the Commons, in a week in which he faced a vote of confidence in his leadership.

“We have a cost of living crisis, and it is unacceptab­le for railway workers to either lose their jobs or face another year of a pay freeze when inflation is at 11.1% and rising. Our union will now embark on a sustained campaign of industrial action which will shut down the railway system” - RMT general secretary Mick Lynch on strike plans by members of his union.

“There are two weeks until the first strike is planned. We will use this time to keep talking to our unions and, through compromise and common sense on both sides, we hope to find a solution and avoid the damage that strike action would cause all involved” - Network Rail chief executive Andrew Haines on the rail strike plans. “Every party must come to an end and although I’m packing up my trunk of funk on Radio 2, I’ve loved bringing the party to its funky listeners each Saturday night” - Broadcaste­r Craig Charles after BBC Radio 2 announced his Saturday night slot is to end. “Jules, I came all the way to Germany to try to avoid all that back at home, and you brought it up straight away” - Former footballer Michael Owen is quizzed about TV reality show Love Island – which features his daughter Gemma – by Channel 4 presenter Jules Breach while appearing as a pundit for England’s Nations League match with Germany.

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