Tens of thousands of nurses are going on strike for the first time across England, Wales and Northern Ireland, with picket lines set up at dozens of hospitals as a long-running dispute over pay escalates.

The Royal College of Nursing is asking the Government to agree to a pay rise of about 20 per cent but ministers are adamant that such a rise is "unaffordable" and that pay should be set by independent pay review bodies.

This walk out will result in 70,000 appointments, procedures and surgeries being cancelled in England, a health minister has said.

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