Bristol bus strike latest - everything we know as First Bus drivers set to 'bring city to a standstill'

Six hundred bus drivers at two of the three First Bus depots in Bristol are planning to go on strike from tomorrow morning - Tuesday, September 16 - and stay on strike for the rest of the week, with a warning this will bring the city’s roads to a standstill. The four-day strike has been called after drivers rejected a revised pay offer from First Bus on Friday.

The bus company’s bosses said on Friday that drivers had rejected their ‘full and final offer’, but both sides are understood to be involved in last minute talks to avoid the strikes, which will affect almost every bus route in the city.

Bristol Live broke the news of the strike on Friday when the results of ballots were

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