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Unions 'serious to avoid strikes'

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Are talks between the government and the unions involved in Thursday's strikes likely to produce an agreement?

Kevin Courtney, deputy general secretary of the National Union of Teachers, gives his predictions.

And the Cabinet Office minister Francis Maude looks at the possibility of a compromise.


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