The Courier & Advertiser (Fife Edition)

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“There is a huge problem with recruitmen­t. This is the test for summer, the Easter break. Summer is going to be far worse. It is the time to get everything in place otherwise summer is going to very difficult” - John O’Neill, regional industrial officer for Unite, after weeks of baggage chaos and long queues at Manchester airport.

“We are a strong people and we won’t give up Ukraine. Our army, our volunteers, and the rest of the people are doing everything possible to save our country. I have started to love our homeland a hundred times more” - Sofiia Klimina, 26, a Ukrainian refugee now living in Surrey with a British couple under the Homes for Ukraine scheme. “He was a man that always gave his word, his word was solid. He always fought for what he believed in. The passion he had for all the veterans that lost their lives was unwavering” - Sally Billinge-Shandley, daughter of D-Day veteran Harry Billinge, who has died aged 96 after a short illness.

“Often, you would turn up for a scene and she would have rewritten it on the day so you have got a couple of minutes to learn it, but you trusted in June. You knew it was going to be better”

- EastEnders actress Lacey Turner after the death of June Brown, who played chainsmoki­ng Dot Cotton on the BBC soap for over 30 years. “My sense of relief at the notebooks’ safe return is profound and almost impossible to express”

- Dr Jessica Gardner, director of library services, after two Charles Darwin manuscript­s reported stolen from Cambridge University Library were anonymousl­y returned.

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