Workers are protesting at Land Rover's pay offer

Members of the Transport and General Workers Union and Amicus are angry at a 6.5% pay deal offered over two years.

Union bosses are urging the firm to reopen talks to prevent a strike at its plant in Solihull, West Midlands.

"We do not seek to engage the company in a damaging dispute and our objective remains to agree a negotiated settlement," said the TGWU.

Union leaders will meet next week to consider their next move.

The union said workers were particularly annoyed at the pay offer because Land Rover is one of the few profitable parts of the Ford empire.

"The result is a measure of the real anger that our members feel towards a pay offer that fails to fairly reward the major contribution they have made in changing the fortunes of the company," said Dave Osborne, national officer of the TGWU.