NUCLEAR power station workers across England and Scotland celebrated today after their unions won a ground-breaking deal from EDF bosses.

Engineering construction roles in Hartlepool, Torness, Heysham, Dungeness, Hunterston, Hinkley Point B and Sizewell B will now be covered by a national agreement for the industry, guaranteeing better pay and conditions, Unite and GMB said.

The French-owned firm, whose workers have taken months of industrial action over what Unite said was management’s failure to address the worst cost-of-living crisis in generations, has also agreed to boost bonus payments, the unions added.