15:10, Leeds: ‘We are being scapegoated’

‘ It is not local authority pensions that has left a big hole in government coffers’

14:37, London: Ambulance staff stand together

Ambulance staff in London among first on picket lines this morning

NHS strike solid support across the UK

More than 400,000 on strike

Solid support for the strike across the country

Hundreds of thousands join the action

Dave Prentis’ speech to Birmingham rally

Millions of ordinary working people make history today

14:10, Sheffield: Most imaginative picket of the day?

Sheffield lays claim to one of the most unusual pickets of the day

14:00, Bristol: ‘Today is about women – women who care, women who clean, women who teach”

UNISON women are striking for decent pensions

Bristol: Movement gathers pace in west country

Thousands of strikers, demonstrators and activists gather at Castle Park in Bristol.

10:33, Nottingham: ‘I was crying as I walked out, but I had to do it’

Nurses describe moment they went on strike

08:35, Bristol, Beeping horns greet picket line

Picket lines began in darkness at Bristol’s Frenchay Hospital, where UNISON members joined forces with Unite and GMB in protest.

09:59, Sheffield: Pensions chill hits NHS workers

Sheffield NHS workers feel the chill of the pensions proposals

08:30, London: Pensions anger at London hospitals

UNISON NHS workers were striking from dawn outside London’s Guy’s and St Thomas’s hospitals

10:35, Cardiff: Rallies at County Hall

‘We are getting wonderful support’

09:20, Swindon, Support even among working staff

As a community psychiatric nurse living in Swindon, Paul Gore proudly states that today he is sstriking for the first time ever’

07:30, Bristol: Council workers say fair pensions for everyone

Bristol City Council workers were out on strike from 6am to defend their pensions