Postal services across Bristol will be disrupted over the next week in a series of strikes beginning on Sunday

evening.

More than 200 distribution and collection drivers based at the Bristol mail sorting centre in Filton will strike for 24 hours from 8pm on Sunday evening.

Then on Tuesday 400 workers at the regional mail depot in Severn Beach will take part in a 24-hour stoppage beginning at 4am.

Later the same day, at 11.55am, 1,000 workers at the Filton sorting centre will begin a 24-hour strike.

On Friday, about 900 workers at 19 smaller depots around Bristol will take part in a one-day strike from 4am.

The strikes are the latest in an ongoing dispute over pay, conditions and job security.

The Royal Mail wants to modernise working practices because fewer letters are being sent as customers switch to email and texts.

The Communications Workers Union says it agrees reform is necessary but wants to see better job security for its members as part of the changes.

The CWU is balloting its 121,000 members around the country on whether to take nationwide industrial action.

Talks between the two sides will be held next week in a bid to avert a national strike.