today at one gary lineker back on air, as the bbc resolves its dispute with him over what he says on social media. the bbc says lineker will abide by its editorial guidelines until a review into them has been completed. asking gary to step back off air was, i think, a significant thing, and now we look forward with this agreement, moving forward, to resolve things and get back to business as usual. gary lineker himself says he can t wait to get back into the match of the day chair and that he s immeaurably proud to work for the bbc. also this lunchtime: junior doctors in england begin three days of strike action in their dispute over pay and conditions. relief for thousands of
fallen by a quarter over the last 15 years once inflation is taken into account. to get back to the level it was in 2008 would mean a 35% pay rise. a basic salary in the first year after medical school is around £29,000, but that doesn t include overtime and night pay. the union wants first year pay to rise from £14 per hour to £19 an hour. it says junior doctors have large student debts of around £90,000 and other medical expenses they have to afford. plus, here in oxford, things like rent are very high and many find it too expensive to live here. the government says their pay demands are unaffordable. there were last minute attempts to avert strikes, but the union said there was no credible offer on the table.
nhs trusts are warning the biggest impact will be on patients with pre booked appointments. i must admit i had a bit of a weep. i felt like i had knocked back. i have sympathy for the doctors, i have got sympathy, for a lot of people on strike. they re not affecting the people they should be, they re affecting people that need surgery, treatments. save our nhs! the strike today will affect trusts across england. doctor s unions in wales and northern ireland say they are watching the situation closely, while in scotland, junior doctors will vote on possible strike action later this month. jim reed, bbc news. 0ur health correspondent katharine da costa is in oxford for us this lunchtime. katherine, the doctors say they want a 35% pay rise how do they justify that? the bma says junior doctors pay has
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jim reed, reports. 0n the picket line for only the second time in the history of the nhs. we re all here because we asking for pay restoration, but also more than that, it s about the long term sustainability of the nhs and the medical workforce. my daughter dresses up as doctor and says she wants to be one, and that makes me feel worried rather than proud, because of the state that the nhs is in generally and how undervalued doctors are generally. junior doctors are a large part of the workforce, making up a quarter of all gps and half of all hospital doctors. junior doctors range from doctors who start straight out of medical school all the way to 10, 11 years experience, extremely experienced brain surgeons, emergency medicine doctors looking after entire departments at night.