“LEAVE MY FAMILY ALONE” SAYS FIRE BRIGADES UNION LEADER

Fire Brigades Union general secretary Matt Wrack revealed today that newspaper reporters have been pestering his ex-wife and his student son.

“One reporter, a woman, visited my former wife on Wednesday and asked her to talk about me” he said.  “The reporter said she was from the Daily Mail.  My former wife shut the door on her. Another came to my student son’s flat when he was not there, asked the neighbours about him, showed them a picture of my son, and rooted about in the dustbins.

“This is happening because I am the general secretary of a trade union involved in a high-profile strike.  I appeal to reporters to leave my family alone.  I am the target, not my former wife or my son, or any other member of my family.”

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