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Battle bus takes to the streets

Tomorrow (Friday) sees a campaign battle bus taking to the streets of London and the constituency of the minister for the civil service, Tessa Jowell MP, as part of the build up to next week's budget day strike by civil and public servants over cuts to their redundancy terms.

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