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The Fire Brigades Union has said that its members will start voting on 5 December on whether to strike over pay, with the result due at the end of January.

As PA Media reports, the move follows the rejection of a 5% pay offer. If a national strike took place, it would be the first since action over pensions between 2013 and 2015 and the first on pay since 2002/03.

This is an historic ballot for firefighters and control staff. We are rarely driven to these lengths.

Nobody wants to be in this position, but after years of derisory pay increases and a pay offer that is well below inflation, firefighters' and control staff's living standards are in peril.