Hundreds of workers at Edinburgh's Leonardo factory have walked out in an ongoing pay dispute, on the first of a number of planned days of strike action.

Staff at the aerospace firm are understood to also have joined picket lines at its sites throughout Scotland and England on Tuesday, November 12.

It comes after workers rejected a 3.6 per cent pay offer from the company, which the Unite union said was "well below" inflation and in real terms, a pay cut.

The union added that the offer was made at a time Leonardo UK was making hundreds of millions of pounds in profit each year.

Employees on the picket line in Edinburgh gathered at the entrances to the site on Crewe Road North , waving placards and red Unite banners, and cheering whenever passing cars beeped their horns in support.

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