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10:33 GMT, Wednesday, 16 July 2008 11:33 UK

How has your council been hit?

Information is being published by some local authorities about which of their services are being hit by a 48-hour strike by council staff which started on 16 July.

The industrial action, by members of Unison and Unite, will affect England, Wales and Northern Ireland.

Those councils who have put details about the disruption on their websites are listed below. Not all councils are affected by the strike.

The BBC is not responsible for the content of external internet sites.

ENGLAND

South East

Adur

Basingstoke & Deane

Brighton and Hove

Crawley

Eastleigh

East Sussex County Council

FarehamHampshire County Council

Hart

Havant

Isle of Wight

Lewes

Medway

New ForestOxford City

Oxfordshire County Council

Portsmouth

Reading

Southampton

Worthing

Berkshire: Strike latest

Hampshire: City binmen strike

Oxon: Patchy picture in county

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Greater London

Barnet

Bexley

Bromley

Ealing

Enfield

Greenwich

Hackney

Hammersmith & Fulham

Harrow

Havering

Hillingdon

HounslowMerton

Redbridge

Sutton

Tower Hamlets

Waltham Forest

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South West

Bath & NE Somerset

Bournemouth

Bristol

Caradon

Carrick

Cornwall County CouncilDevon County Council

Dorset County Council

Gloucestershire County Council

Kennet

Kerrier

North Cornwall

North DevonNorth Somerset

Poole

Plymouth

Salisbury

South Gloucestershire

Swindon

Torridge

Wiltshire County Council

Dorset: Strike shuts schools

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West Midlands

Birmingham

Bridgnorth

Coventry

Dudley

Herefordshire

Lichfield

Newcastle-under-Lyme

North WarwickshireShropshire County Council

Solihull

Staffordshire County Council

Stoke-on-Trent

Tamworth

Telford & Wrekin

Walsall

Warwick

Warwickshire County Council

Wolverhampton

Worcestershire County Council

Wyre Forest

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East Midlands

Amber ValleyBassetlaw

Blaby

Bolsover

Broxtowe

Chesterfield

Derby

ErewashHigh Peak

North East Derbyshire

South Derbyshire

Leicestershire County Council

Leicester

Lincolnshire County CouncilLincolnMansfieldNorth KestevenNottinghamshire County Council

Nottingham

Rutland

Nottinghamshire: 100 schools closed

Lincolnshire: Schools shut by strike

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East Anglia

Basildon

Bedfordshire County Council

Cambridgeshire County Council

CambridgeChelmsford

Dacorum

Luton

Norfolk County Council

PeterboroughStevenage

Suffolk County Council

Uttlesford

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Yorkshire & Humber

Calderdale

Doncaster

East Riding of Yorkshire

Harrogate

Hull

Kirklees

Leeds

NE LincolnshireNorth Lincolnshire

North Yorkshire County Council

Rotherham

Wakefield

York

West Yorkshire: 180 schools shut

South Yorkshire: 200 schools closed

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North West

Blackburn

Blackpool

Bolton

Bury

Cheshire County Council

Copeland

Cumbria County Council

HaltonKnowsleyLancashire County Council

Lancaster

Liverpool

Manchester

Pendle

Preston

Oldham

Salford

Sefton

St Helens

Stockport

Tameside

Warrington

Wigan

Wirral

Manchester: Town Hall picket

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North East

Darlington

Durham County Council

Gateshead

Hartlepool

Middlesbrough

Newcastle

North Tyneside

Northumberland County Council

Redcar & Cleveland

South Tyneside

Stockton-on-Tees

Sunderland

Wear Valley

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WALES

Anglesey

Blaenau Gwent

Bridgend

Caerphilly

Cardiff

Carmarthenshire

Ceredigion

Denbighshire

Flintshire

Gwynedd

Merthyr Tydfil

Monmouthshire

Neath Port Talbot

NewportPembrokeshire

Rhondda Cynon Taf

Swansea

Torfaen

Vale of Glamorgan

Wrexham

Council workers strike over pay

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NORTHERN IRELAND

Ards

Belfast

Castlereagh

Coleraine

Cookstown

Craigavon

Derry City

Down

Lisburn

North Down

Strabane

Western Education & Library Board

Council workers staging strike

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