A nine-year-old boy has written to Southern rail bosses complaining that he is "tired" of his parents "coming home late every night because of the rail strikes".
Frankie Cottrell, from Hove, East Sussex, emailed the letter to the company - and his local MP - ahead of another wave of strikes by drivers of the ASLEF union today, tomorrow and on Friday.
The bitter dispute over driver-only trains - and cancellations, delays and short trains - means Frankie and his seven-year-old brother Henry sometimes do not see their parents at all in the evenings.
In a damning email to the firm, Frankie said his parents had paid "a lot of money for their season tickets/Oyster cards and are not getting value for their money".
"Surely there must be a way to solve these problems," he wrote.
"At school we are taught to negotiate with each other to sort out our differences and clearly you have not learnt to do this."
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