Around half of rail lines will be shut again as rail workers walk out for a second day
As well as holding strikes this week, 115,000 Royal Mail workers from the Communication Workers Union will also take industrial action on 23 December and Christmas Eve.
Lucy Bryant, who runs her artist's studio, Haus of Lucy, says she supports the strikers as "everyone has a right to fair pay". Some artworks are getting through, and some aren't. "There's almost no logic to what is getting through," she says. On Tuesday, figures from the ONS revealed that the gap between wage growth in the public and private sector is near a record high.
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