Balanced News: UK sending 1,200 troops to fill in as ambulance crews strike

LONDON — The British government said Sunday it will dispatch 1,200 troops to fill in for striking ambulance drivers and border staff as multiple public sector unions walk off the job in the week before Christmas. Some 417,000 working days were lost to strikes in October, the highest number in a decade. Cabinet minister Oliver Dowden said “it would be irresponsible to allow public sector pay and inflation to get out of control.”