for travel, with disruption expected to affect many thousands of passengers flying into birmingham, cardiff, glasgow, gatwick, heathrow and manchester, for eight days from the 23rd of december, throughout christmas, until new year s eve. i ve never seen a build up to the festive season that looks so bleak. millions of people are going to have their christmas travel plans on the trains wrecked by the many days of strikes. and if you manage to get it to an airport, well, you could find that your flight is disrupted because of the uk border force strike. all i can say is, good look everybody. heathrow has warned passport checks may take longer on strike days, as around three in every four officials that you check your passport are likely to strike. their union boss says the action is necessary. we, like nurses and teachers and paramedics and other people in the public sector, have no option other than to take industrial action,
pressures after figures suggest an estimated 7.2 million patients are waiting to start routine hospital treatment, a record high. the first parts of the much hyped harry and meghan series are released, harry repeats accusations of intrusion of privacy by the british media. environmental campaigners condemned the decision to give the go ahead to the decision to give the go ahead to the uk s first new deep coal mine in 30 years. the home secretary suella braverman has warned that planned strikes by border force workers over the christmas period may cause delays at airports. workers at major airports including heathrow and gatwick are going on strike for eight days in a dispute over pay. this in a dispute over pay. will take place between the 23rd this will take place between the 23rd of december and new year s eve. there are contingency plans to bring in the army. it comes as ministers say they are considering new laws to restrict strike action. paramedics and rail staff are set to take
nurses, paramedics and rail staff are also set to walk out in the coming weeks. mark lobel reports. more turbulence this christmas. add to the list of those already taking industrial action this month, a thousand borders border force staff, at one of the busiest times of the year for travel, with disruption expected to affect many thousands of passengers flying into birmingham, cardiff, glasgow, gatwick, heathrow and manchester, for eight days from the 23rd of december, throughout christmas, until new year s eve. i ve never seen a build up to the festive season that looks so bleak. millions of people are going to have their christmas travel plans on the trains wrecked by the many days of strikes. and if you manage to get it to an airport, well, you could find that your flight
to restrict strike action. nurses, paramedics and rail staff are also set to walk out in the coming weeks. mark lobel reports. more turbulence this christmas. add to the list of those already taking industrial action this month, a thousand border force staff, at one of the busiest times of the year for travel, with disruption expected to affect many thousands of passengers flying into birmingham, cardiff, glasgow, gatwick, heathrow and manchester, for eight days from the 23rd of december, throughout christmas, until new year s eve. i ve never seen a build up to the festive season that looks so bleak. millions of people are going to have their christmas travel plans on the trains wrecked by the many days of strikes. and if you manage to get to an airport, well, you could find that your flight
it least being asked to pay the price for the folly of those who have the most. that cannot be right and our action is designed to get the government to see sense and to give our members money to stop them using food banks, which is the least they deserve. using food banks, which is the least they deserve- using food banks, which is the least they deserve. studio: to put this in context. they deserve. studio: to put this in context- you they deserve. studio: to put this in context. you have they deserve. studio: to put this in context. you have been they deserve. studio: to put this in context. you have been listening i they deserve. studio: to put this in | context. you have been listening and watching to the leader of the public and commercial services union which is the pcs and as you will have heard that you were listening, as you were listening, there is a significant escalation of strike action. the main use is that some civil servants including border force workers, wi