Nurses and ambulance service staff set to walk-out on strike on Monday won't hold a picket line in Hexham, the GMB union has confirmed.
Planned pickets in the Northumberland town have been cancelled out of respect for the late Holly Newton, 15, who died on Friday January 27. She died following a suspected stabbing - and a union member said "the whole town is in shock".
On Monday, ambulance workers are to join nurses in strike action - but GMB's members won't be taking the streets in Hexham, the union explained. Nurses who had been set to picket outside of Hexham General Hospital on Monday and Tuesday will also no longer do so.
