Civil servants to vote on strikes

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The Public and Commercial Services (PCS) union said it will ballot 270,000 workers in more than 200 Government departments and agencies because of "worsening" pay rates and compulsory redundancies.

The result of the ballot is expected to be announced on October 23.

Mark Serwotka, the union's general secretary, said: "People delivering the essential services that we all rely on have grown increasingly angry as the services they deliver suffer due to job cuts and office closures.

"This anger has been fuelled by the Government's desire to cut wages in real terms with well below-inflation pay offers."

Strikes could hit courts, tax offices, jobcentres and prisons later in the year.

Civil servants have already staged a number of strikes over pay and jobs.