STRIKING nurses took to the picket lines across Wales today as the Royal College of Nursing Cymru took the first of two days of industrial action.

The strike came after RCN members rejected the Welsh government’s revised pay offer in May.

RCN’s Wales director Helen Whyley said: “Until the minister for health and social services reopens meaningful negotiations to try to resolve our dispute, we will, once again, stand shoulder to shoulder on the picket lines across Wales.