Museums close early due to strike action

Three Welsh museums have closed early this weekend as a series of summer strikes comes to an end.

Members of the Public and Commercial Services Union who work for National Museum Wales sites are have walked out today and plan to again tomorrow Saturday amid an ongoing row over weekend allowances.

It's the last of a series of weekend walkouts held during August.

National Museum Wales said the National Slate Museum in Llanberis, National Wool Museum in Dre-Fach Felindre and Blaenavon's Big Pit National Coal Museum will be open until 1pm on both days as a result of the strikes.

National Museum Cardiff, St Fagans National History Museum and the National Waterfront Museum will remain open from 10am to 5pm but may have reduced services from 1pm.

The National Roman Legion Museum in Caerleon, however plans to remain fully open on both days.