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"We can’t in living memory remember scenes were mail was stored outside like this."

Many among the animated crowd are wearing pink hi-vis vests, waving flags and holding placards that read “strike to win” and “save our Royal Mail”

Royal Mail workers have begun a wave of strikes that will stretch until Christmas Eve amid a bitter dispute over pay and conditions. Around 115,000 Communication Workers Union (CWU) members are walking off the job across the UK on Friday while “millions of pieces of mail” pile up, the union…

From ambulances to buses and postal deliveries, few public services will be unaffected by industrial action in Britain’s new ‘winter of discontent’

The area outside parliament was filled with postal workers in pink fluorescent jackets from the Communication Workers Union

Workers are on picket lines in Bathgate and around West Lothian

Postal staff are striking on several dates throughout December after negotiations broke down

In the run-up to Christmas there will be strikes on railways, roads, buses and airports. Nurses, ambulance staff, paramedics and postal workers will also walk out, with many losing pay as a result

Thousands of striking staff head to Westminster for protest outside parliament over conditions and pay