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Over 180 staff at the Intellectual Property Office will have their pay increased by £8,000 or to the maximum of the grade after a long running equal pay case was settled the day before the Employment Tribunal hearing.

Members of Prospect trade union representing nearly 350 employees at the National Trust for Scotland are balloting on whether to take industrial action over management imposition of a pay settlement already rejected by 91% of members in a ballot in February.

Prospect has called on all parties involved in negotiations on setting a strike price for electricity generated by the planned new nuclear power plant at Hinkley Point in Somerset, to redouble their efforts and secure an agreement.