Civil servants in the North are to introduce a pay rise for health service workers that was left unimplemented due to the Stormont powersharing crisis.

Up to 400 civilian posts within the PSNI will disappear over the next three years, a trade union claimed tonight.

Maintenance workers in the health service in the North are to go on strike after they accused Stormont officials of reneging on paying money they were entitled to under a pay deal.