Thousands of City of Edinburgh Council workers have voted for a strike against cuts and redundancies, it was announced yesterday.

Almost 8000 members of Unison, the public sector union, have voted by over two to one to strike against possible cuts of almost £10m across children's and adult social care services. Unison said unless the union gets assurances that there will be no redundancies and no extra pressures on staff because of cuts, the first strike will be next Thursday.