NHS nurses and ambulance workers stood side-by-side on picket lines on Monday - and together urged the Prime Minister to once again "get around the table" and bring the ongoing NHS pay row to an end.
For the first time during the winter of NHS strikes so far, two services took action on the same day. And though both ambulance workers and nurses had picket lines around the region - in Gateshead they were just yards from one another and each group spent time backing their NHS colleagues.
The mood on both picket lines - and across the Tyne in Newcastle - was a stubborn one, with NHS workers shocked by what they see as the Government's intransigence. Striking workers yet again told ChronicleLive how they'd much prefer to be in work, doing their jobs and saving lives.
