TEACHERS in south Devon are joining colleagues nationally staging more strike action today and tomorrow.

Members of the National Education Union will be involved in the two days of strike walkouts.

The action co-incides with the final day of the junior doctors 72-hour strike over pay and and conditions which has affected Torbay Hospital.

The NEU is calling for above inflation pay increases and wants schools to get extra budget to cover the additional pay demands. 

The Department for Education said it wanted "formal talks on pay, conditions and reform, ahead of the latest strike days - but only if the NEU called them off.

The walkouts, which began on March 1, have so far seen tens of thousands of teachers striking in an ongoing dispute over pay and conditions.

Members will be gathering in London this afternoon to march to Trafalgar Square on Budget Day to ‘form the greatest demonstration in education for a generation’.

Thousands of civil servants across more than 100 government departments and agencies are also striking today.

A few schools will be closed fully but many will have partial closures of certain year groups. 

Doddiscombsleigh Primary School is reported to be completely closed while Devon County Council reports partial closures at Kingskerswell Primary School and St Michael’s Primary in Kingsteignton.