UK braces for Wednesday’s widespread strike action

In a season of strikes, tomorrow stands out.

Here’s the list: train drivers, lecturers, civil servants, security guards and bus drivers.

But for the first time in this winter of discontent – also teachers.

They will be among the hundreds of thousands of workers on the picket lines. Nurses and doctors will not be striking tomorrow.Today has seen passengers making pre-emptive journeys, and parents organising pre-emptive childcare.