Hinkley C workers to be balloted on strike action

Construction workers at the Hinkley C nuclear power station in Somerset are to be balloted for strike action.

Unions have rejected a pay offer from the French energy company EDF, which is building the reactor near Bridgwater.

They say the new reactor is a high profile and complex project that can not be built on the cheap.

EDF says conditions of employment at the site are superior to the rest of the UK's construction industry.