UK postal staff to vote on pay deal

UK postal workers will start voting later this week on whether to accept a deal aimed at ending their long-running dispute over pay, jobs and working conditions, it was announced tonight.

The Communication Workers Union said it will send ballot papers to its 130,000 members from Friday.

The ballot closes on November 27 and the result will be announced soon afterwards.

Postal workers have been involved in a series of strikes and other forms of industrial action since the summer which crippled mail deliveries.

A deal aimed at resolving the row was agreed between the union and Royal Mail.